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Advantage of Flash Menu vs Javascript Menu bar

By Ko Fai Godfrey Ko

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Website menu bar or navigation bars are integral parts of every website design. In the past most webmaster use Javascript to create pull-down menus. It would take considerable amount of scripting knowledge for web designer to get the right design and right options on the navigation menu, and incompatibility problems arise often between different web browsers and Javascript versions.

In recent years, more and more websites are using flash menu instead of javascript menu systems. Flash menus provide better browser compatibility -- as flash web menu appears and works the same in all browser and operating system conform to the Adobe Flash standard. Base on Adobe's website information, over 98% of web users now have flash installed with their browser.

A main factor that makes your visitors trust you is your web site's appearance & design. Javascript language does not support high quality graphics or animations. In contrast, flash menu is often visually Rich, and comes with high quality graphics and animated effects, which make using a flash header and navigation menu bar much more attractive than a static Javascript menu. In additional, Javascript is disabled by many users for security reasons and popup blocking. For these users, Javascript menus will simply become invisible and leave a big blank area on your website --- which gives your visitors a very poor impression about your website.

Another main advantage of flash menu is its easy maintenance. Most flash menu stores its settings in a single SWF file, changes to site navigation are very easy. Just upload the new file to your site and refresh are instant. If you use Javascript menu, as the javascript code is repeated to all pages, you would need to edit all pages.

To create a flash menu, you can do it in 2 ways. You can either program it yourself using Adobe Flash software plus actionScript --- which require techniques such as timeline control, frame labels, use of button event handlers, and animation skills.

To make things easier done, it is best to look use a flash menu builder software. Most flash menu builder software provide a wizard and easy steps to make flash menu, you can simply choose a ready made design from a collection of flash menu templates, and then fill your menu captions, links, and define sub-menus.

A flash menu builder makes it possible for beginners and non-programmers to build their own flash menu header in minutes without any coding. Even skillful webmasters might find the flash web menu software providing great assistance and time saver to create flash dropdown menu.

Ko Fai Godfrey, website software and developer since 1996. Developed software including a flash menu builder, website builder, interactive map builder and video player.

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