Horizontal Image CSS Menu

Dreamweaver Extension, Expression Web Add-ins, CSS Menu Studio

Create image based CSS menu site navigation and use your own designs without any hand coding. This is by far our most popular CSS menu plugin and its being used by thousands of users and some of the most popular sites on the web.

Here is an in-depth look inside the many features and functionality offered.

Horizontal Image CSS Menu with Pure table-less CSS script

Support web standards by selecting pure CSS table-less outputs. Pluginlab scripts use the highest standards in markup and a highly optimized CSS scripting approach.

Fully compliant Horizontal CSS Image Menu

With a "zero validation error" policy here at Pluginlab you can rest assured that your image based CSS menus will validate flawlessly against W3C.org XHTML and CSS online validation tools.

Horizontal Image CSS Menu with Search Engine Optimization

Highly optimized for search engines, our CSS menu scripts can greatly improve your site's placement and page rank with Google and Yahoo. Pluginlab menus have SEO and accessibility advantages over both "no-links on page" and "all links on page" approaches. For more information visit the CSS Menus and Search Engine Optimization page for full details of these approaches.

A Highly Specialized Plugin for Creating Image Horizontal Menu

Our user interface is specifically focused on just one task and therefore this makes it extremely easy for you to create image based horizontal menus. The entire process is very easy to use and we guide you at every step along the way.

Horizontal Image CSS Menu with 508 Accessibility Compliance

Implement an accessible horizontal menu on your site pages that complies with Section 508 Level A standards. We are continually striving to achieve the highest possible accessibility compliance to meet your needs. Visit our 508 Compliance page to find out more about our accessibility features.

Keyboard Navigation support for image Horizontal CSS Menu

Our CSS menu scripts provide you with an extensive set of keyboard navigation features making your site accessible to all your visitors. Take a closer look at Pluginlab's drop down menu keyboard navigation features. Simply "check" this option and select which key combinations will activate the keyboard navigation on your site.

100s of free CSS Menu Templates in Preset Manager

Explore and utilize hundreds of free CSS Menu templates exclusively developed by the Pluginlab team and our design partners. All templates are fully customizable to correspond with your specific site design requirements.

Creates unlimited styles of menus

Use your own images with hundreds of easy to use and time saving features to create custom menus that fit your site design.

Most comprehensive browser support in the industry

All of our CSS menu scripts fully support PC, MAC and Linux browsers including Internet Explorer, Firefox, Netscape, Opera, Mozilla, Mac Safari, Mac Opera, AOL and even Mac IE. In addition, we are continually updating all of our products to ensure your site continues to support all browsers at all times.

Mobile and handheld PC

Increase in mobile and handheld has made it even more important to develop sites that are accessible by these devices. Most mobile devices are supported and we are continually adding more devices.

Right-to-left and left-to-right languages

All foreign languages are supported, even right-to-left as well as Chinese and Japanese dialects!

Multiple CSS menus on the same page

Insert multiple menus in any location on the same page and at the same allowing you to achieve ultimate navigational design flexibility. All menus can be seamlessly be managed from the same user interface and without any hand coding.

Single Level and Two Level Horizontal Layouts

Introducing the first 2 level horizontal CSS menu generator in the industry. Now you can choose between single level and 2 levels horizontal outputs and develop the navigation that is best for your site design, all without hand coding.

Transparency controls for menu drop downs and main level

Add cross browser CSS transparency to both the drop downs and the main level images.

"Text On Image" and text decoration

Save considerable bandwidth and size by reusing the same image as background for your buttons and real text is simply overlaid on top for each button name. In addition you can choose from several font decoration and animation options to customize the look and feel of your image CSS menus.

Flexible CSS menu positioning options

Simply place your CSS menu in any location on your page. You can use tables, div tags or our built in position features to accurately place your CSS menu at any location on your page.

Cross browser animation and effects

Select from over 30 built-in CSS effects and animations to create unique CSS menus. Choose from cross-browser animation styles with flyout open and close speed controls, color fade options and more.

Advanced CSS menu color management

Add a completely new set of colors and schematic makeup to any section of the menus using separators to grab your visitors' focus and highlight call-to-action buttons. Additionally, with just a single click of a check box you can inform your users as to the site wide position of the current pages within the menu.

Site Navigation Optimization

Organize your CSS menu and guide your users with visual clues using Headings and Selected button options.

CSS drop down scrollers and browser edge detection

Bower edge detection automatically activates the drop down menu length is larger than the available space on the users screen, allowing them to scroll up and down to view all your css drop down menu buttons.

Automatically preloads images

All menu images are preloaded on the end users computer just once and cached, making your site open up faster and smoothly on each visit.

Button icons and arrows

Add icons and arrows to each button and provide your user with visual clues and guides for better navigation.

Drop down menu open direction control and "Open On Click"

Select the open and close method for your drop downs menus. You have a choice of mouse hover or on mouse click. Also you can select for the drop down menus to open up or down giving you greater accessibility and design options.

No hand coding means you save hours of development time

Now you can save hours of hand coding and experimenting with browser compatibly issues. With just a few clicks you can generate professional looking standards-compliant menus that are sure to liven up your web pages.

Easy to use and learn

Experience our intuitive design environment as you work effortlessly to create your first menu within minutes of installation, without the need for any additional images or coding.

Visualize the menu creation process in real-time

Use the Preview Window to view your menu design in real time while you are developing and customizing. This innovative feature will speed up your development time and drastically reduce the number of clicks required to preview your new design in the browser. Every change is instantly visible.

Quickly set and add default images

Efficiently create image menus using Get and Set Default feature and greatly reduce the number of click required to create a CSS image menu. This feature alone will save you hours of repetitive clicks.

Streamlined color management interface

Select and manage colors more efficiently with our advanced color management user interface. This allows you to quickly customize designs to meet your exact requirements and save these color sets for later use.

Support for Adobe Dreamweaver and Microsoft Expression Web templates

Implement menus with Adobe Dreamweaver and Microsoft Expression Web templates simplifying your site updates with new modifications.

Efficiently update your entire site

Utilize the built in Update Pages feature to quickly and automatically update any page or your entire site.

Seamless integration into your work environment

Seamlessly integrates into Adobe Dreamweaver, Microsoft Expression Web and Pluginlab Studio. Each license will include installations for each of the supported platforms.

Compatible with all page format

Create menus for any web format including today's leading web development technologies such as Flash, HTML, XHTML, CSS, XML, JavaScript, Ajax, PHP, Adobe ColdFusion, ASP, ASP.NET, and JSP.

Compatible with Flash

Generate drop down CSS menus that are fully compatible with flash content and display over flash banners and animation.

Import, export and share menu site structure

With one click of the mouse you can export your site structure and share it with any other menus. In addition you can use the same structure to generate a site map for Google, Yahoo or MSN using Pluginlab Site Maps.

Why Pluginlab?

Tested and approved by Adobe testing

All products are extensively tested and approved by the Adobe testing team to ensure they meet the highest standards of quality.

Nominated by Adobe staff

Pluginlab Menus was nominated by Adobe staff and featured on their "Staff Picks" page. They are also some of the most downloaded and highly rated extensions on Adobes website.

2 Installation Keys for each developer

We realize that many customers need to use the software on more than one computer, such as laptop and desktop. Therefore Pluginlab License Agreement allows you to install on 2 computers per product license for non-concurrent use.