Top Navigation Bar not showing even with cat tabs enabled

[palagio]

Our previous developer turned the top navigation bar off on our store due to server issues and the slowing down of the site. We would like to re enable this and turn back on but cannot find how or where to do this.
I have checked under layout settings > Categories-Tabs Menu ON/OFF
and this iss set to ON
Can anyone please advise?
Site: http://www.clicknorder.co.uk

[stevesh]

The reason you can't see it is here in stylesheet_header_menu.css:

div#dropMenu ul ul {
position: absolute;
width: 13em;
display: none;
}

But you have a lot of styling work to do to get it lined up. Should be doable in that same stylesheet.

[palagio]

Thanks stevesh

I had found that file originally but wasn't sure what it needs to be changed to?
Can you advise as to what the code needs to be amended to?

Regards

[stevesh]

Start by removing the display: none; from the rule I mentioned.

[palagio]

Thanks Stevesh

That brought the nav bar back on, but it was a bit of a mess to be honest, any ideas what else I would need to do to the code? I've changed on our test site first, have attached an image of how it looks

[SPH]

Did you turn on the categories in your languages/english/yourtemplate/header.php?

// Switch for CSS drop-down menu [ On = 1 / Off = 0]
define('HEADER_DROP_SWITCH', '0');

I didn't even know how the drop-down worked for my first year or so using this template, as I had never used subcategories to that point. So I just got main categories across the top. When I finally used subcategories I saw the drop-down working.

In my opinion, you have too many categories which will overwhelm this template's drop-down/horizontal category nav. It looked best when the number of top level categories comprised a single row across the top. Probably would experiment with the new Kick B U T T Mega Menu in its place, if I needed a drop-down.

This template is an old reliable and can be lightning fast. I still have it ready to go on my main site, but don't know that I'd turn on the drop down due to my categories.

[SPH]

PS: My stylesheet_header_menu.css reads:

div#dropMenu ul ul {position: absolute; width: 13em;display: none;}

That's how it came with the template download and worked when my drop-down was turned on in the header.php file. So if you have problems, you should undo the change.

[palagio]

Thanks SPH

I checked the code in languages/english/yourtemplate/header.php

and it reads
// Switch for CSS drop-down menu [ On = 1 / Off = 0]
define('HEADER_DROP_SWITCH', '1');

The problem is the drop downs are not neat and in order, see the attachment pic in my post above, the sub categories are already dropped down without hovering over them??

Anyone have any ideas how i tidy this up and get it looking good again?
I will also check out the Kick B U T T Mega Menu,
SPH, is this a mod for a nav bar when you have a lot of top level categories? This is one of my concerns at the moment, how to make the site as user friendly as possible with so many top level categories, it is not possible to change the categories as this is based on the csv of product catalogue from my supplier and we sell 13,000 products so its too much work to amend this file every catalogue update

Thanks in advance

[SPH]

I just turned this template back on on my main site:

http://www.prommart.com/

I tried to turn on the drop-down categories to show you, but I have so many templates loaded on this site there is some conflict. So cannot show you just now.

Anyway, the regular zencart horizontal categories that you see now are what I was using, instead of the template's built-in drop-down. As I said, unless your top categories only comprise one row (maybe two at most), it will not look good even when properly aligned up.

BTW, I notice your other thread re second category descriptions. Notice that my homepage has the homepage second description area mod and my categories have the second category description area as shown here:

http://www.prommart.com/index.php?ma...ndex&cPath=120

But this is a 1.3.9h cart and I will be doing a fresh 1.5.0 install any time now. Not sure if these mods yet work with the new cart.

BTW, it looks like you are using a 1.3.9 cart? Are you just starting out with zencart? Why not start off with the newest zencart?

Looking at this template on my site, I did alot of work on it and I remember how much I liked it.

[SPH]

You can get the Kick B U T T Mega Menu here (and it has a demo):

http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/ht...rop-down-menu/

It might take some work getting it to blend in nicely with this template.

The new free Abbiamo Supremo and Abbington Mega Menu templates come with this menu (each styled a little different).