By following this tutorial you will learn how to use MX CSS Menus to generate a database-driven CSS menu in your site, starting from another table structure than the one required by the Database-driven CSS Menu component (wizard or server behavior). The tutorial regards the presentation of some software products (Dreamweaver extensions), but similar applications can be built for any other sites that need a menu: product catalog, online library, personal website etc.
For building this website you will:
Create a Dreamweaver template used to afterwards build all the site pages.
Generate the database-driven CSS menu in the template file, starting from another table structure: the first level menu items are entered manually in the CSS Menu Wizard interface, and the second level menu items, for each first level item, are retrieved dynamically from a corresponding recordset.
Make the dynamically retrieved menu items point to site pages by passing URL parameters, and use dynamically retrieved values for the URL parameters.
The only Dreamweaver extension you need in order to follow this tutorial is:
The estimated completion time for this tutorial is about 45-60 minutes. It also depends on your authoring knowledge with Dreamweaver and MX CSS Menus.
Plan the other table structure application
Generate the database-driven menu in the Dreamweaver template
Create the site pages based on the Dreamweaver template