Just goto my Drop-down menu creator page and add your menu items one by one by providing a name and URL for each item. The updated menu will be shown to you. Once you are happy with the menu that you created, click the button to add it to your blog. You will see a page (like the one shown below) where you can select the blog (if you have more than one), provide a title for your menu and then click "Add Widget". You will see the widget getting added to your sidebar which you can move around to wherever you want. All this can be done without touching the template code!
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Way cool. I can't wait to try it. Thanks.
Thanks for this one, I can't wait to try it!
simple but neat
Thanks Ramani!
Its very easy to leave a blog with that kind of dropdowm menu, specially if the mouse has a wheel, cant you add a go/visit button after the link has been selected? only after clicking on the button the visitor gets redirected.
Ricardo, that sounds like the right way. I will change it soon.
Very slick. Another nice one.
Great job and many thanks for the drop down menu. The only problem is that I can't put any posts under the drop down window (similar to the drop down window that deals with archives. How do you post?
thanks alot ramani.
but how about sort base on frequently or alphabet option
Regency, do you want to display the recent posts as a dropdown menu?
Delang, Yes that is a possible improvement. will consider it.
Any suggestions on how to make the selected link in a drop-down menu pop up in a new window?
Euphrony, I can probably add an option for that.
do you know how to make drop-down archive show (only) years?
That's really nice :)
I'll try it soon!
I have also another very silly question that I didn't know where to post exactly. I implemented the peek-a-boo option on all my posts, but for some reason, it looks like some of my readers cannot see the 'read more' link and never find out that the posts continue.. I guess in my template the Read More turns out with a too light color.
Could you please explain to me how to have the 'Read more' link show up maybe red, bold and in the center, something that shows up better?
Thank you SO much for everything!
Chemcookit,
Yes, you can play with how Read more link appears. Find the text "Read more..." in the template and replace it with
#span style="color:red;font-weight:bold;">Read more...#/span>
(I have used # instead of left arrow to get this comment going)
You may want to do the same for "Summary only..." also for uniformity.
Ramani,
thanks a lot!!! You're so nice with me poor ignorant blogger :)
If you ever want some cookies or similar that I can ship, let me know.. :) :)
Hey, thanks for the info on the three column template. Made it very simple to do when I was feeling too lazy to work it out myself.
Cheers!
Do you take requests?
My archives are a daily flat list. I would like to list them by title of post rather than date of post. As far as I can tell beta blogger does not allow this. Any chance you can make a hack that would do it? I would sure appreciate it.
Mario
mm@gorge.net
http://www.terrastinaandmazolli.blogspot.com/
Mario,
I get many requests, so I usually pick the ones that many ask for and it should also interest me. Before I decide on your request, do you know that the post titles are shown if you choose Hierarchy view of archives?
I do know that, but I don't want the hierarchy view because it just clutters up the layout. I really don't need dates on my blog at all. I'm archiving daily and having the year or month listed is just an annoyance for the blog I'm doing, which is a serialized novel. I just want a place where people can go and see all the episodes of the novel in one long list. They can do that now, the way I have it set up, only instead of titles, they see dates, which is really irrelevant information.
Thanks for considering this hack.
Mario
Mario,
I think what you are asking can be achieved using this Table of contents hack by Hoctro. Check out this hack.
That is terrific. Thank you very much. I will try it later today.
Thanks yaar..
its really great
Arpit
http://www.technicalbliss.blogspot.com
ramani...thanks for responding to this request...much appreciated...keep up the great work
This is a great hack. I just added it to my blog! Thanks for your hard work in developing this.
Ramani,
This is amazing. Only thing is I want to know how to add multiple drop downs under the same heading. Its for recipes..see the prob on my blog.
www.kanchspot.blogspot.com
Any help you can give would be much appreciated!
kanchana
Cool....
i cant wait 2 try for it..
http://noctrlc.blogspot.com
Thank you very much. I've looked all over for an easy way to make drop down menus, with no luck. The process is simple, the results look professional!
my drown menu is already installed successfully, but can i modify it so that when i click the menu , the page will open on the same page? if yes, how? check it here: http://guidetophilippines.blogspot.com
Hi Ramani,
This is a very useful hack. I have the same question as the previous person. I don't want to open the selection in a new window, but in the same window. How would I do that?
Thanks.
-Amit
This blog is great. It really gave me some great ideas for my blog. My favorite was the drop down menu.
~www.redsoxrulez.blogspot.com~
I love the menu, thanks! It was so easy.
Just one question, is there any way to change the size of the box? The box is longer than my sidebar and I would like to shorten it (if you want, you can see it in my right sidebar)
Thanks so much!
I have added it to my blog, I am exactly looking for this kind of thing. Reallly thank you for this code. All the bestt
Thank you very much for this code. I have added it to my blog and appreciate the small amount of real estate it occupies! Great blog, I come here often.
I searched everywhere for this widget and couldn't find anything that would come close to being this user friendly. I do have a question. I don't suppose you can change the color of it..so it blends in with the template??
Hi! I am so ignorant with stuff like this--the fill in page is great! There are a lot of "lists" I want to turn into drop down boxes.
However, 1) how would I add a picture for each "list" (from my "My Pictures" folder on my computer); 2) How would I make sure things stay alphabetized; 3) when I tried to do a new box, I couldn't delete the "old" information from the "original" I tried--how would I do that?
Thanks! Miss Beth @
http://missbethsvictorydance.blogspot.com/
Oh, and I forgot #4--How could I incorporate a long list of quotes that don't have links into a drop down box?
Thanks again,
Miss Beth @ http://missbethsvictorydance.blogspot.com/
Miss Beth,
It's not possible to do all that right now. I am not sure if I will improve this utility further.
A Big thank you for the drop down box,right have 2 things to ask..1 how do you update the box with more links? and 2 can you change color of it? many thanks Lazy
http://bloggersdelite.blogspot.com/
how do i update in the drop down?,I have looked on your page and no luck? Lazy
lazy,
I haven't yet made an interface to update an existing drop down menu. Right now, you will have to recreate a new menu with all the options again. I will inform everyone with a new post if I add this feature.
nice article dear.Will give it a try.keep posting such hacks...
The link does not work :(
I need this hack
http://www.anniyalogam.com/hackosphere/widgets/dropdown.html
it says
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The requested URL http:// was not found on this server.
Please help
My blog
Straight From The Heart
GBU
Arti
Arti,
I fixed the link. Please try again.
I created a few drop down menus but I'd like to add a few links to the list once a week. Is it possible to add links to the drop down menu at a later date or do you have to add them all at once and then that's it?
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