Sothink JavaScript Image Scroller and DHTML Menu Suite

Sothink DHTML Menu creates DHTML menus easily. The user-friendly interface, rich templates and easy publishing makes the menu creation simple. It supports Windows Vista (SP1) and integrates well with Dreamweaver, FrontPage, Expression Web and Golive.

Pros: This is actually a pack of two application, one is a menu builder the other an image scroller. The menu builder creates JavaScript navigation menus in a visual mode that makes it simple to use. The user need not be aware of JS use anyway. The created drop-down menus are compatible with most major browsers and are search engine friendly in that the engines would find it easy to crawl through the navigation paths being so well structured. It is possible to create a wide range of menu styles that include functional menu, such as highlighted menu, scrolling menu, cross-frame menu, multi-column menu, custom menu and floating menu. Font, icon, background, border, cursor, tip text, surround, effects, alignment, transparency etc helps customize the menus in several different ways. Menu positioning anywhere in a web page is possible easily as is easy to change a horizontal menu to a drop down menu. Hot key functionality can be integrated. Code generated integrates easily with the other toolset commonly used in building a website such as ASP, PHP, JSP and ASP.NET as well as Coldfusion etc. Editing the items on a list is a functionality that lets you fine tune the look & feel.

The image scroller lets you create a scrolling display of a set of items linking to other pages or even other sites. Horizontal or a vertical scrolling effect is the primary choice. One then can choose a whole set of scrolling effects that include several different styles of slide shows that has slide shows like on the Amazon site and several other effects. One can add his own set of effects too. Integrating and publishing is no issues at all.

Cons: No issues here.

Overall: Really quite powerful applications that can add sophistication to any website without the need to turn into a sophisticated programmer and has intuitive controls. This package deal is good for 4 stars at least.

Sothink DHTML Menu is the most popular JavaScript navigation menu maker. It creates fully featured drop-down menus easily in a visual edit mode, with NO JavaScript experience required. The created drop-down menus are compatible with most major browsers. The menus are search-engine-friendly and can be properly indexed by search engines, such as Google. The Search Engine Friendly Code Maker will behave like site map in a JavaScript disabled browser. The program supports Windows Vista (SP1) and integrates well with Dreamweaver, FrontPage, Expression Web and Golive. It can create dynamic database-driven menus by supporting ASP, PHP, JSP, ASP.NET, ColdFusion, etc. The menu is visible over Flash, selected boxes, Iframes and even PDF files. You can build multiple menus on one page, or apply one menu to multiple pages.Rich built-in templates, styles and image library help users create a horizontal or vertical menu easily; The program supports HTML code, non-English languages and right-to-left languages; Users can create functional menu, such as highlighted menu, scrolling menu, cross-frame menu, multi-column menu, custom menu and floating menu; They can Position the menu anywhere on the web page or hide certain menu items & separators; Fully customizable properties, including font, icon, background, border, cursor, tip text, surround, effects, alignment, transparency, etc make the menu attractive; Tree-like menu can be switched to drop-down menu; Keyboard Navigation function enables users to control the menu by using the keyboard. The user-friendly interface helps users modify the menu easily and preview its effect in real time. Users can add, delete, select items and adjust their order easily in the List panel. They can also edit multiple items at one time or copy & paste between items. Exclusive Publish helps to add the menu to web pages fast and easily. Resource Folder and Link Prefix enable users to switch the project locally and on the web for testing purposes.