Creating Menus

[donaldbo]

I have Dreamweaver CS5.5. Haven"t used it for a while but want to create a new web site.

Want to create a top and a side menu but can't find instructions to do this.

[Nancy OShea]

Let's begins with some basic information about your skill set & your new site.

• Will this site be responsive for mobile, tablet and desktops?
• Have you ever built a responsive web site?
• Do you have a good grasp of HTML, CSS & JavaScript?
• Or do you need 3rd party widgets to help you?

Nancy

[donaldbo]

- Responsive for mobile, tablet and desktops? Mainly desktop for now.

- Responsive web site? No

- Godd grasp of HTML, CSS, Java Script? HTML and CSS

- 3rd party widgets? Would be helpful

Can’t believe however that a sophisticated software such as Dreamweaver doesn’t come with a menu building function. Perhaps I need to consider another web development software

[Rob Hecker2 · Accepted solution]

Perhaps I need to consider another web development software

The current version of DW might serve you a lot better. You could use bootstrap, which would provide the menus you want, and other slick features.

Responsive web site? No

What's the point of a website in 2017 if it isn't responsive? You really want your site to work on all devices.

[osgood_]

https://forums.adobe.com/people/Rob+Hecker2  wrote

What's the point of a website in 2017 if it isn't responsive? You really want your site to work on all devices.

It will work on all devices just not as effectively as if it was a dedicated responsive solution BUT if you turn a mobile device to its horizontal position no one should have much trouble viewing or reading  a fixed width solution, especially on a tablet device.

Would I do it or advise it, no, but then again I follow what I'm 'brainwashed' into thinking is needed, when maybe it isnt.

We dont have any figures available to tell us the percentage of users who view their mobile device in portrait or landsacpe format.

I was sitting with a client a few weeks ago and he whipped out his mobile phone to view his website and immediately turned the device to landscape which seemed a natural position for him, the website although it was an old fixed width solution, was perfectly readable.

I don't buy into Google penalises a non-responsive site in terms of ranking as I still have a few fixed width sites which do very well agiainst the responsive competitors.

Having said that I agree, if you are building a website from afresh now you should really follow what the masses are doing, they must be right.

[Rob Hecker2]

I don't buy into Google penalises a non-responsive site in terms of ranking

SEO is not my expertise but I recently worked with an SEO expert who convinced me that GOOGLE is obsessed with mobile performance. I'm also seeing a lot of mobile activity when I look at my server stats.

Google has the mobile usability report and the less rigorous mobile-friendly test. Google didn't like the fact that I used underscores in web addresses; an underscore being harder to type on a phone than a dash.

I also got penalized for not compressing my CSS. Both issues were easy to fix.

[osgood_]

https://forums.adobe.com/people/Rob+Hecker2  wrote

I don't buy into Google penalises a non-responsive site in terms of ranking

SEO is not my expertise but I recently worked with an SEO expert who convinced me that GOOGLE is obsessed with mobile performance. I'm also seeing a lot of mobile activity when I look at my server stats.

Yup they ARE so obsessed, I can see that.

Google Analytics Solutions - Marketing Analytics & Measurement – Google

37/100 for mobile

phewwwwww

[pziecina]

donaldbo  wrote

Can’t believe however that a sophisticated software such as Dreamweaver doesn’t come with a menu building function. Perhaps I need to consider another web development software

Quite possibly.

Dw is a tool, and even though it once thought it could be aimed at those who did not want to code, it has learned the hard way that for the requirements of the modern web that is not possible, for anything more than a basic badly coded page.

I would prefer it if even the new versions did not include such items as, jQuery UI, Bootstrap, or jQuery Mobile. As they all give the user the wrong impression, and once they have to customize them, many find they cannot do so.

You could look at using Dw extensions, some of the more popular are from -

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

Yes they must be paid for, but if you cannot code yourself!!!

[Nancy OShea]

donaldbo  wrote

Can’t believe however that a sophisticated software such as Dreamweaver doesn’t come with a menu building function. Perhaps I need to consider another web development software

FYI:  Legacy CS5.5 came with the now deprecated Spry Menus feature but I don't recommend using it.  Spry is not touch screen or mobile friendly and the code base has not been updated since 2006.  Adobe abandoned Spry & later removed it from DW CC.

CS5.5 reached its end-of-life 4 years ago.  It's no longer sold, supported or updated and is roughly 7 versions behind the current CC 2017.  

If you want to keep using legacy software that's fine.  But you need to use modern code ( HTML5, CSS3 and to a lesser extent JavaScript).  CS5 has almost no support for modern code standards so you're going to have to code manually and preview your work in real browsers.  Design view won't help you much. 

Navigation Menus:

https://shapebootstrap.net/blog/19-web-tips-and-tricks/69-5-amazing-html5-css3-navigation-menus-you-...

Nancy