The Benefits of UDM 4
With UDM 4 you can have the best of all worlds -
rich and beautiful designs, graceful and easy-to-use menus, and
proper accessibility to all your visitors, however they access
the web.
The Benefits to Users
Ultimate Dropdown menu is easy and intuitive
for your visitors, overcoming many of the usability
and access problems traditionally associated with
DHTML menus.
Check out some of these benefits:
- Accessible to everyone
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The menu structure
is based on simple
HTML
so that all browsers get something they can use.
- Easy to use
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Menus have synchronised open and close timers,
so mouse-movements don't have to be precise.
For people who don't or can't use a mouse, the navbar and
menus support
keyboard navigation.
- Always visible
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The menus can automatically reposition themselves
to stay inside the viewport. A horizontal navbar can
even collapse into multiple rows as the window width decreases.
- Always readable
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The entire structure is flexible to text size.
- All the links are real links
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You can give them any valid attributes,
context menus are preserved, and they can
have visited/unvisited styles.
- Quick loading
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Depending on the options you choose,
the total filesize can be
as low as 20K!
- Degrades gracefully
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Excellent separation of content and presentation means
that UDM degrades smoothly,
from full dynamic menus all the way
back to plain-text links.
- Standards compliant
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Ultimate Dropdown Menu is valid
HTML 4 and
XHTML 1.1,
and
in our judgement, meets the criteria
for WAI Triple-A
and Section 508 conformance.
The Benefits to You
Ultimate Dropdown Menu is quick and easy to implement,
however your site is built, and however you maintain it.
Free of the worries of compatibility, encapsulation and
the negative impact of bulky scripting, UDM leaves you
more time to get on with your job - because
nobody ever got fired for delivering on time.
- Easy implementation
-
UDM can easily integrate into static or dynamic
websites, without you having
to know any advanced javascript.
We can also
customise the menu for you.
- Easy maintenance
-
Even less knowledge is required to maintain UDM -
anyone with minimal
HTML
skills can update the menus and links.
- Visible to search engines
-
UDM is visible to search-engine spiders
and other web robots.
- All the links are real links
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They generate click-through information in statistical packages,
and they're included in server processes
such as transient session handling.
- Well supported
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Technical support and advice is available to all
commercially licensed users.
- Flexible layout
-
UDM can be a vertical side menu, a horizontal dropdown menu,
an expanding/contracting menu,
or provide popup menus from any other page element.
It can be configured to work onmouseover or onclick,
or a mixture of both.
- Rich design palette
-
A sophisticated range of style options give you
maximum control over the menu's appearance. Every link and menu
can be unique, or a single design scheme can apply
to the whole thing.
- Fully extensible
-
UDM has an integrated
API
which you can use to program new
extensions, or tie other scripting into
link and menu events.
- Well encapsulated
-
Most of the code is object-oriented, to
give the best chance of compatibility with other scripting.
Existing events are unaffected,
including
<body onload>.
- Well maintained
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The UDM series has been continually developed
and maintained for more than four years -
in past releases we were among the first to support
Netscape 6, Opera 5 and Konqueror 2;
we supported IE6,
Safari and Opera 7 when they were still beta releases.
You can be confident that UDM will stay with the leading-edge of
browser technology.
- Cutting-edge
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Fully-featured
and accessible - UDM sets a new standard for
professional DHTML menus.
It even works within XHTML served as
XML!
