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AllWebMenus Review

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Product Description
AllWebMenus is a web menu builder that requires absolutely no DHTML or Javascript experience from you. It creates cross-browser navigation menus that work alike in all browsers supporting DHTML.

Some of the Main Features of pro version

  • Create menus for framed web sites (cross-frame menus).
  • Use multiple menus in the same page.
  • Use the Pick Style and Apply Style functions to quickly transfer an item's appearance to other items.
  • Use Popup and hidden menus.
  • Use static or animated Images for both background and content.
  • and more

Overview

AllWebMenus supports most popular web authoring tools like dreamweaver, frontpage and golive. You can use it to create site navigations or site maps that will allow your website visitors to browse your website with ease.

Installation as well as activation process was fast and easy but the first look at the program interface was overwhelming.

Main Window

As you can see there are a lot of properties in the main window, that may be a little too much for a user who doesn't know what each property does or how it impacts final menu look and feel. What the AllWebMenus developers did to help such users is include superb help options.

On the bottom of the main view you can see the short description of property selected; live examples link, which lets you can actually see how that particular property affects the menu; and more help link, which you can click to see more help topics on that particular property.

Live Example

Another way to get help is through Help in the menu bar. We recommend the users to check these out. The topics there include instructions on how to use AllWebmenmus in favorite web authoring tool, optimize menus for better performance and more. The topics are easy to follow and contain lots of screenshots and tutorials.

Help Window

Once familiar with the interface, creating menus is truly fun and simple. You can use predefined style from the style gallery (below) or create your own style from the scratch.

Style Gallery

First you need to add items to your menu. Items are the links or names of the links that the user clicks to navigate your site.
Than, you can set the normal, MouseOver and MouseClick properties for every item. It you take a look at the screenshot below, you will see that below every item is a list of properties that you can change and adjust to create the menu that will fit your website theme.

Menu Item Properties

At any time during the creation process you can preview your menu by just clicking on the preview button, which is located in the toolbar just above main properties.

Preview Menu.

When done, AllWebMenus creates a javascript file which is very easy to add to your website. Take a look on the tutorial how to do it using Dreamweaver or other favorite web authoring tool.

Conclusion

AllWebMenus is a very powerful tool that comes with superb help and "How to.." topics, which make the usage of it simple and easy. Using this tool will save a lot of your time to create professionally looking manus that are easily integrated in any website using basically any web authoring tool.

We give AllWebMenus v3.1 pro a well deserved 5 out of 5 stars. To see more screenshots, get trial download and pricing info visit AllWebMenus website