By host on Wednesday, August 05, 2009 10:42 PM

I have been working on skinning and playing with menus. Menus of empty pages.  I manually would create a structure and then work the skin and menu classes to define the look wanted. If you want a good tutorial on menus, see DNNCreative's #47 edition -- good stuff.  

But after creating these empty pages over and over ... I got thinking there must be a better way. I binged and googled (boogled it?) and found no hits, so it was time to play around in T-SQL again.

I developed a procedure called CreateEmptyPage 

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By host on Sunday, August 02, 2009 12:57 PM

The latest version of MenuLinks has been released on Tressleworks site.  This version has several enhancements that may interest the power users out there.

However, first a bit of recap if you are not familiar with MenuLinks.  MenuLinks displays the relative menu items as links based on the current page.  What? 

Consider this scenario, you want to display a list of links for all other pages at the same level on the menu.  Well this can be done maually with the DotNetNuke Links modules.. but it will take time.  MenuLinks allow the user to do this by setting a few modules settings once.  If addition pages are added (or removed) MenuLinks will display the links based on the current menu contents.  Like the DNN Links menu, the list can be horizontal or vertical and align left, center, or right within the container.  Very handy.  You can see examples of MenuLinks here 

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