I have put together an extensive menu using Navstudio. Unfortunately, the menu extends beyond the bottom of the browser page. If you do not have a wheel on your mouse and move to scroll, the menu goes away. As you can imagine, this could cause quite a bot of frustration. Any suggestions? I am using 1 level of submenus (that can also be extensive) and therefore do not want to create "More..." options. I could possibly shrink the font but I was looking for something more creative i.eL
Is there a way to only have the menu's go away on a click or selection?
Is there a way to have the browser page scroll down automatically (as it would if you depress a mouse wheel)?

Thank you in advance,
coverall

Can you provide a link to your site so we can look at it and get a better understanding of what you are looking at?

Holy cow - you're not kidding...that's a lot and I mean a LOT of links to have in a nav system.

Here's how I would handle it though - I would totally get rid of that menu system and put the products in a "catalog" of sorts.

Having all those items in drop downs - espcially one with all the crazy and annoying effects you have in that one - will get REALLY old REALLY fast when you want to go to a specific location. Plus if it's in a catalog, you can add nice little thumbnails so that people will see what they are looking at instead of just having a line item.

if you are he|| bent on having a drop down style nav thing, I'd move it out of that DHTML thing and put it in a dropdown select list form element - that way when people use the drop down, it'll have it's own little slider if the list is too big. But that will still be in the page and not in the nav...

Other option, make your nav stuff Flash and put in a scroller...

IMHO that DHTML stuff you have there needs to go...not that DHTML is bad - I use DHTML dropdown menus like you have in my own development. But all the fancy and cutsey effects make it look...well...cheezy. But that's just my .02

B,
Thank you for the sound advice! I think a redesign for this is in order, as painful as it may be.


Thank you again, and if you have any other ideas don't be shy!!



Coverall

It may be (and probalby will be) a little painful to do the redesign - they always are - BUT, your users will thank you in the end.