Jquery menus for DW CC

My Advanced CSS Menu Light for Dreamweaver has developed an odd behavior: the drop down menus lose the text in live mode. Odd.

I have been using DW as well as teaching it at a college for years. I started with this program when it was Macromedia... I'm shocked by some of the discussion here.  I have been teaching web 1 (intro to HTML & DW), Web 2 (DW and CSS) and web 3 (CMS) for years. I have 100's of students of experience that MANY people - new, and experienced, are in need of quick and easy tools to accomplish their needs.  The learning curve is STEEP. and that hill takes time to climb. Let alone to get prepared for the next step - JavaScript, JQuery, PHP, etc. They even have to learn about servers, and domain names, and FTP etc. etc. Some people master Dreamweaver and the included FTP - and never move past it. They are amazing designers... but not developers.

First - we had a navigation builder that allowed the same states for navigation as Flash has (up, over, down, etc.). This was a quick, fun, and easy way to build a navigation system. They removed that system - but they replaced it with (IMHO a much better option) Spry. I would not call Spry a failure... it was a quick and useful tool that made building navigation really fast - and set the need for modifying CSS, but not having to build it from scratch.

Now - even the spry menu is gone. Tsk Tsk Adobe... You shouldn't remove a tool/function without replacing it when you ask people to spend money again to have an upgrade. I don't believe an upgrade should ever LOSE a function completely... I don't mind learning a new tool or better way... but to have things completely taken away? Yikes!  I'm glad we don't teach at the college using the CC version. I will hold back my other complaints here, but so far... CC has not made me the happiest - I keep running into road blocks.

On the bright side... Edge Animate - super cool tool - a CSS/HTML 5 version of Flash... if you haven't tried it yet, then get into it and have some fun! And if you like to work with code - then the Edge CC Coding program is great too - unfortunately, my major  disappointment? The preview portion of it only works with the ONE browser I don't/won't use... Chrome - so that sucks.

Anyway - I look forward to a resolution being found, and don't accept for one moment that it shouldn't be up to them to provide an upgraded tool... in their upgraded tool. If no upgrade to Spry is included here - then it should be left alone until one is figured out.

Just my opinion.... and just as an FYI: I'm fairly savvy with JavaScript, and Jquery... but it doesn't mean that it doesn't take me more time to have to write it, or modify it, and when you have a lot of sites to complete, update, and manage... for clients who can't afford to pay as much... it's not feasible for me to always have to go there. I need DW to be my tool of choice. Sadly, I'm finding myself turning more and more towards WordPress for a quick and easy build... not a good sign when it is free and my software costs money.

madwebllc wrote: So Spry is gone in DW CC. Spry of course made deploying menus very quick and easy. Does anyone have any suggestions for an equivalent tool for menus using Jquery? Thanks

jQuery menus are only as good as the person writing the jQuery stub - or plugin. Most are not very good in a broad sense. If you want "easy" in Dreamweaver, automation, and full and unlimited support - along with the best menu system there is - you might want to look at PMM3:

http://www.projectseven.com/products/menusystems/pmm3/demos/index.htm

The PMM brand has been the finest menu system available for Dreamweaver for over 10 years. It's not free. It is simply the best.

for now, until the staff answers, I am using my old DW - which I have been for my stylesheet as well since I find editing it much easier there

Hi madwebllc,

There is one free Widget available on Adobe Exchange "Advanced CSS Menu Light" using jQuery. You can give it  a try.

You can access it through DW CC.

1. Window menu < Extensions < Adobe Exchange.

2.  Click on Fee tab in the Exchange Panel.

3. Click "Advanced CSS Menu Light" and follow on screen instructions to install it.

The ZXP installer is downloaded to the user's documents folder.

Thanks

Bhawna