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Fly-Out Menu Standards
- CWU pages using dynamic fly-out menus must use the Ultimate Drop Down Menu 4 (UDM 4) template.
- Pages with the UDM menu system need to be unlocked from the templates.
- Must use approved CWU colors, see: www.cwu.edu/~web/cwu_approved_colors.html
- Limit of 3 child fly-out menus from parent.
- Must use a graphic such as menucarrot.jpg or smallmenucarrot.jpg with an alt attribution of "submenu" to indicate a fly-out menu presence.
- Borders must be the same color as background gray (or other approved color) in the left-hand menu.
- To manipulate border colors and backgrounds of the fly-outs, altering of those attributes of the udm.css is authorized.
- In the udm.css, do not use border: none (breaks tab function) or border: transparent (IE 6 doesn't recognize it), tab functions must remain intact.
- Font face and size used in the udm.css must be consistent with font face and size in the CWU common.css.
- For accessibility of fly-out menus, the biggest issue is that all top-level menu items must link to pages that provide duplicate links to their submenu items. For example on the CWU template, "Future Students" must link to an actual Future Students web page that must contain links on that page for "Request Information", "Application Deadlines", ... , "CWU Center Students". Rationale: in some cases, only the top-level menu items will be displayed as links. Therefore, you must provide duplicate links to all submenu items.
- Pages using the UDM menu system must be under the direct supervision of professional developers at CWU.
- Pages must validate as transitional XHTML 1.0.
- Use this code to link to UDM style sheet:
- Place script statements below in the "head" section.
- Place script statements below in the "body" section.
- Do not alter any other of the above mentioned javascript files.
- Contact the CWU Web Office for the specific files and for technical support.
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