Help me find a menu that doesn't suck

April 5, 2007 3:36 PM

I need a good DHTML menu package.

I'm designing a web application and right now I've got a basic Suckerfish dropdown menu, but I want something with a little more style. I would love to use something like radmenu but my app is written in ColdFusion not .net. I need a recommendation, it's no problem if it costs a few hundred bucks.

posted by TungstenChef to computers & internet (10 comments total)

don't know if they're still around. but twinhelix.com was my ticket back in the day.
posted by phaedon at 3:44 PM on April 5, 2007

I'm not sure if this would work for your project or not, but I've used OpenCube's Quickmenu Pro with some success on several projects.
posted by ScottUltra at 4:18 PM on April 5, 2007

DynamicDrive.com has bunches of stuff. Look around here and see if something grabs your eye.
posted by The Deej at 4:28 PM on April 5, 2007

The Ultimate Dropdown Menu is going to set you back $15, but is pretty much top of the line in terms of flexibility and coding elegance.

The sourcecode for what is essentially UDM is covered in full in this book, which is probablyone of the best general JavaScripting books out there.
posted by Artw at 4:54 PM on April 5, 2007

I've used the Milonic menu system in a few projects.
posted by ReiToei at 5:27 PM on April 5, 2007

This is free, and incorporates dozens of css-menu styles to mess around with and hoick. Highly recommended if you need some canned shortcut code.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 5:36 PM on April 5, 2007

This is under a fairly permissive license, and is entirely html and css, meaning it doesn't matter what environment you're using. Check out the rest of the site, most of it is pretty cool
posted by cschneid at 8:46 PM on April 5, 2007

entirely html and css, meaning it doesn't matter what environment you're using.

Hmm... generally I've found the opposite.
posted by Artw at 8:38 AM on April 6, 2007

Thanks to everyone who replied, I'll be using twinhelix for this project, and bookmarked the rest for future use.
posted by TungstenChef at 3:54 PM on April 6, 2007

infinite menus from OpenCube is fantastic - we use it a lot. (not affiliated BTW)
posted by the_very_hungry_caterpillar at 10:57 AM on April 22, 2007