web design people...

[Chau]

http://www.chauzer.com/temp/menu.jpg
this is the current navigation menu we have..

in the beginning all u have is the top row which are the main categories... and then when you click on Help, the 2nd row shows up which are sub categories of Help, and then if you click on Administration, the third row shows up which is a sub category of Adminstration...

anyone have any ideas for a better layout/menu? the problem is, the only thing i can use is just HTML tables.. i could make it a lot better if we could use javascript or something like that, but right now we can only use HTML

anyone got any suggestions to make it look better?

 

[xxAgentCowxx]

Hoo-ey thats ugly

 

[Chau]

lol i know, i can't think of anything though since i can use only html

 

[Cerb]

Not really, unless you make it like so:
Forum [forum links]
Project [project links]
etc. ...
Help FAQs Help Requests IT Tasks LAN Status Administration

...with no cell padding or spacing.

 

[dxkj]

Originally posted by: Chau
lol i know, i can't think of anything though since i can use only html

can you use gif buttons?

 

[MaxDepth]

Wow. Can you use a CSS (style sheet)? That would help. Whoops, that'll call for some JavaScript too.

Tables and frames will help you organize it better, though. Basically, every click would either take you to a new page or redraw the table to include the new choices.

 

[Chau]

Originally posted by: dxkj

Originally posted by: Chau
lol i know, i can't think of anything though since i can use only html

can you use gif buttons?

nope, can't use buttons, has to be plain text because the headings are generated by a perl page and the headings can change a lot

 

[randomlinh]

what about css, as asked before? You can make at least asthetically looking "buttons"

drop the underline links, get rid of the padding, and do an onmouseover hover trick for highlighting.. no images, straight up html/css/slight javascript..

 

[zimu]

why can't you use javascript?!

 

[Xede]

Take a look at this and see if it's a possibility, or at least maybe it will give you some ideas on how to make what you have look nicer:

CSS tabbed navigation

Or, if you still want something really simple, your navigation might look better as a three-level tree kind of layout instead of three rows of buttons. You see a vertical list of your top level elements, clicking one expands that node to reveal its second level elements, and again for the third level.