Expression Blend Navigation Bar Screenshots





Video Tutorial




The Vista Buttons add-in for Expression Web and Frontpage allows you to create powerful dropdown menu menus, directly in Expression Web, FrontPage 2000 (version 9), Microsoft FrontPage 2002 (version 10), Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 (version 11). Fully customizable appearance! Use one of the 500+ web buttons, 100 submenu designs, 6600+ icons, 50 ready-made samples, or create your own using the theme editor. With support for custom images, icons, colors, font styles, the possibilities are limitless. You'll create really nice looking website html menus and html buttons with little or no design skills at all! Create, insert, modify a website menu without leaving your favorite web development environment!



Menu, Button, and Icon Collection

Expression Web Menu provides huge collection of 1400 web buttons, 6600 icons, 300 ready-made samples, so you'll create really nice looking menus and buttons with little or nodesign skills at all! Web 2.0, Mac, iPhone, Aqua buttons, Vista, XP, transparent, round, glossy, metallic, 3d, tab menus, drop down menus will be a breeze!

Button and Icon Samples

Features

Search Engine Friendly
Expression Web Menu generates html code which is transparent to search spiders.

Sharepoint Button Expressions Easy to Use
With Vista Web Buttons clear and comprehensible interface, you need just 4 simple steps to get your web buttons or html menu ready and if you use a pre-designed sample as a base you'll end up even faster!

Expression Design Add In Text-based menu
You can create a menu with text-based top items. Such menu will be loaded more quickly on your website (in comparison with image-based navigation).
Menu structure is comprised of HTML nested UL and LI tags. Standards compliant menu structure is simple to customize and update.

Ms Expression Vista Style Expression Blend Navigation Bar Widest cross-browser compatibility
The html menus generated by Expression Web Menu run perfectly on all old and new browsers, including IE5,6,7,8, Firefox, Opera, Safari and Chrome on PC, Mac, and Linux. Expression Web Menu menus have a structure based on HTML list of links (LI and UL tags), readable by any search-engine robots and text browsers.

Orientation of the Menu
Create both horizontal and vertical menus and submenus with any amount of menus on one page.

Insert button script into the existing HTML page
You can insert your button script into the existing HTML page. To do so, click "Page insert" button on the Toolbar.




2.0 Buttons by Web-Buttons.com v3.0.0

How to use Vista Buttons with FrontPage

    To install the drop menu into your html page you should do the following things:

    1). Create and save your buttons in any temp folder using Vista Buttons application. You canuse "Save as HTML" function.

    Save menu

    You can enter any name you like, for example enter "menu":

    Save menu name

    So you'll have menu.html file and "menu-files" folder with all menu files.

    Generated files

    2). You can add javascript drop menu to a single page or to many pages using Shared Borders, Include Page or Dynamic Web Template so that you won't have to add it into each page separately.

    Insert a javascript menu to many pages by shared borders in FrontPage

    - Start FrontPage and open your website. When the website opens, it should look like this:

    Open website in FrontPage

    - To create the shared border page you should do the following things:
    Choose "Format/Shared Borders..." from the main menu. This will bring up the Shared Borders dialog.

    Shared Borders dialog

    - Make sure "All pages" is chosen in the 'Apply to' section. Check the "Top" checkbox to activate the top shared border page and click the OK button to close the dialog.
    A new subfolder should appear in the Folder List section in the main FrontPage window with the top.htm file in it. This is our top shared border page.

    Shared Borders dialog

    Notice that you can choose any other shared border position to install the drop menu as well.

    - Now you can add a menu for your site. Open the shared border page (double-click top.htm in Folder list window) and switch to the Design view mode. Decide where you would like the menu to appear in your page. Click in the spot you want the code to appear in and type the phrase: your code here

    Open website in FrontPage

    - Open the generated in Vista Buttons menu.htmlpage in any text editor. Copy all code within the following tags:
          <!-- Begin Vista-Buttons.com -->
            ...
          <!-- End Vista-Buttons.com -->

    - Go back to FrontPage. Switch to HTML View. Go to the "Edit Menu" with FrontPage and select the "Paste" option to paste the menu code that we copied to the clipboard earlier. Since the phrase we typed was highlighted, it will be replaced when we paste the code in.

    Insert menu in FrontPage

    - To display the mouseover state images correctly you should change vbImgPath parameter. Find the following code
    var vbImgPath="menu-files/"
    and change it to
    var vbImgPath="_borders/menu-files/"

    Copy menu files in FrontPage

    - Now you should copy the "menu-files" folder into the same folder with your top.html shared border. (You should show hidden files to see files of your website. Go to "Tools/Folder options").

    Copy menu files in FrontPage

    Copy menu files in FrontPage

    - Notice that in the Design mode your menu may be displayed not in the proper way. You should view the menu in the Preview mode.

    Design mode in FrontPage

    - Select the Preview mode to display the top.html page live (in Internet Explorer). Notice that your mouseover images can be not displayed when you hover over menu items in the Preview mode. It is normal. You'll see all images when you open index.htm page in the Preview mode.

    Preview mode in FrontPage

    - That's all. You've added all necessary code to your page, so let's test it. Open your index page (double-click index.htm in Folder list window) and switch to the Preview mode.

    Result

    - If everything goes well, save and publish your website. If something seems wrong, double-check that you followed all the steps correctly.

    - If you still run into trouble, we'd be happy to assist you further. You can post your problem to us at , and meanwhile describe your files in details.





Support

Please contact Customer Support at (please include template name in the message title)





FAQ









See also

silverlight 2 - expression blend - styles and templates topic quick-start guides to help developers using Expression Blend are in the editing scope of a style or template in Expression Blend 2, a breadcrumb navigation bar

Slicing Images in Expression Design 2 - Expression Blend and Expression Blend and Design. The team blog of the Expression Blend and Design bar (hide the buttons and frog image first) and the buttons on the navigation bar

How to use silverlight 2 Hyperlink Button to call aspx page in I have this navigation bar with all these fancy buttons done in silverlight2 using expression blend 2.5 june preview & I want use that in my Asp.net Project as navigation

Navigation for WPF 2009.1 released An Outlook style navigation bar created with Navigation for WPF. Version 2009.1 adds support for Windows 7 and Microsoft Expression Blend. Actipro Navigation for

Expression Blend 3 SketchFlow Creating Prototypes Expression Blend 3 however, treats prototype navigation somewhat differently. Full bars and no calls, txt's taking up to a minute to send

silverlight 2 - expression blend - styles and templates topic quick-start guides to help developers using Expression Blend are in the editing scope of a style or template in Expression Blend 2, a breadcrumb navigation bar

Silverlight Tutorial: Using VisualStateManager to Create an The end result of this project is an animated navigation bar similar to the one at the case, so it may well be a bug in the June 2008 Preview version of Expression Blend

Products : Expression Studio - Microsoft Showcase Videos With this series of training videos lets revisit many of the key areas of what makes Expression Blend such a powerful environment to create applications with.

Products : Expression Studio - Microsoft Showcase Videos With this series of training videos lets revisit many of the key areas of what makes Expression Blend such a powerful environment to create applications with.

Navigate the style hierarchy using the breadcrumb bar When you are in the editing scope of a style or template in Expression Blend 2, a breadcrumb navigation bar appears at the upper left of the artboard.

Getting Started Telerik.Windows.Controls.Navigation; Telerik.Windows.Controls.RibbonBar In order to add ribbon tabs to your ribbon control in Expression Blend, you should

menu bar 3D Animation ASP Blend Blog Controls Data Design Designer Expression Blend Framework GUI Maps In this example, well be adding a navigation menu bar and interactive slide show to

Navigation for WPF 2009.1 released An Outlook style navigation bar created with Navigation for WPF. Version 2009.1 adds support for Windows 7 and Microsoft Expression Blend. Actipro Navigation for

Building Basic Layout in SketchFlow with Expression Blend 3 By: Jeremy Osborn, August 2009. Learn how to add basic components to navigation screens. Working with the Asset Library. 08 minutes, 45 seconds

Don's Blog | M-V-VM Application Bar; Application Services; AROS; ASP.NET; Augmented Reality Anyway thats my Blend 3/ Silverlight 3 Navigation Tutorial in Expression Blend 3 hope you find it

Silverlight Tutorial: Creating a skinnable custom control Expression Studio This is a step by step guide on how to make an animated navigation bar using the visual