| STYLE FEATURES |
| ▪ | Font Style and Text Alignment You can define font type, size and style for both, the normal and mouse over states. DMB even supports font substitutions and embedded fonts. You can align text to the left, right, or center. |
| ▪ | Colour Settings Text colour and background colour for both, the normal and mouse over states. |
| ▪ | Image Settings Two images can be placed at both sides of its caption and one at the background. All images support rollover effects. The images at the sides can be resized. DHTML Menu Builder currently supports any type of image also supported by the browsers. Flash Movies are also supported! |
| ▪ | Mouse pointer icon setting Arrow (Default), Crosshair, Hand, Text (I-Beam) and Help Under Internet Explorer custom cursors are also supported. |
| ▪ | Border Colours and Thickness Apply custom borders with raised, sunken, bevel effects to groups and commands. For groups you can also use your own images. |
| ▪ | Spacing Settings Easily control the contents margins and spacing between items. |
| ▪ | Unfolding effects a-la-Office style Vertical, Horizontal, Bi-directional and Random. Also supported Advanced Unfolding Effects for Internet Explorer |
| ▪ | Cascading Menus Unlimited levels. Multiple alignment options are available to display the submenus in any way imaginable. |
| ▪ | Live Preview Watch style changes in real time! |
| ▪ | Special Effects Add drop shadow, transparency and cool raised and sunken effects when the mouse passes over your items |
| ▪ | Auto Size Features Let DHTML Menu Builder calculate the best size for your menus based on their contents or manually adjust it to better fit your needs. Support for scrollable menus when the contents of the menus is too long. |
| ▪ | Menus Alignment Configure your menus to align to the hotspots in any way you want. Actually, you can choose from 12 different alignment settings or even use objects on your pages as positioning references. |
| ▪ | Commands Layout Display Commands aligned either vertically or horizontally. |
| ▪ | Specialized support for HTML tags in the items' caption Make the caption of your items look they way you want by including HTML tags! Add bold words, multi line captions, etc... |
| ▪ | Scrolling Menus Let your menus follow the browsers' scrollbars. |
| ▪ | In-Menu Scrolling With this special feature you can create very long menus and use the in-menu scrolling capability to scroll through all the menu options. |
| PRODUCTION CAPABILITIES |
| ▪ | 100% Frames Support Design menus that can be triggered from one frame and appear on another and display the links on some other frame. IFRAMEs are also supported. With Smart Frames discovery feature your menus can be used from within any number of nested frames, even if you the frameset structure is unknown. This is specially useful when the web site hosting the menus will be used with a redirector (because redirectors often enclose your web site within a hidden nameless frame). |
| ▪ | Integrated Toolbars Let DMB create a fully customizable toolbar for you Position the toolbar anywhere, let the toolbar follow the browser's scrolling position, etc. Create as many toolbars as you want. Advanced users can also define simple
JavaScript functions to programmatically control the visibility state of any of the toolbars. |
| ▪ | Use elements on your page to trigger the menus! With this unique feature you can use any image or text element on your page to trigger your menus. |
| ▪ | Auto Menus Position When using images as the hotspots, DMB will auto position the menus so they always stay aligned, regardless of the browser being resized! You can even attach the menus to items on your page and use them as a position reference. |
| ▪ | Display Links in New Windows You can launch links from your menus items into new windows and use DMB's integrated New Window Properties dialog to set all the parameters for the new browser window! |
| ▪ | Share your Projects with co-workers DMB implements many useful features specially designed to share the project with your co-workers by storing all the resources (such as the images) used by the project into a single file. You can also create several configurations so you can work and compile your project from anywhere! |
| ▪ | JavaScript Compression DMB implements a unique method of compressing the code it generates so the compiled JavaScript files can be about 40% smaller! |
| ▪ | Support for AddIns You can keep expanding DMB's capabilities or customize its default behaviors through the use of AddIns. |
| ▪ | Keyboard Navigation Support Navigate the menus using the keyboard or the mouse! Press the CTRL key to activate the keyboard support and use the arrow keys to navigate them. |
| ▪ | Item Highlight on Section Reflect the section you're on the web site by highlighting the appropriate menu items. Do it easily without writing any code using the Item Highlight Wizard. |
| ▪ | Project Import Easily import project settings and styles from another project. |
| ▪ | Presets Support Create new projects from already existing presets or quickly change the style of your menus by importing the style from one of the available presets. Reuse your projects' styles by saving them as presets. You can also submit your own presets to the Online Catalog so others can use them. |
| ▪ | Search/Replace Easily perform changes to your items using the search and replace feature. |
| ▪ | Easily Implement the menus on your web site Using integrated, completely visual tools you can easily implement the menus on your web site with just a couple of mouse clicks! |
| ▪ | Copy/Paste Styles Use DMB's integrated advanced clipboard to easily copy the any style setting from one item and propagate it in any way you want to the other items in the project. |
| ▪ | Advanced features - Display menus above form elements! - Automatically keep rollover effects created with DreamWeaver, FireWorks and ImageReady synchronized with your menus! - Implement and combine multiple projects into the same pages - Preview into multiple browsers right from within DMB. |
| ▪ | Localization (international version) DHTML Menu Builder is available in English, Spanish, French, German, Hungarian, and more... |