css Menu Generator Version 4.0 is now ready for download…

What’s new?

• The whole tool completely rewritten (based on TemplateShaker code, it now comes with far better functionality);
• The pull-down menu code rewritten, now the menu supports more sub-levels;
• Multi-level vertical menu added;
• Help info added;
• The long-waited “Save” functionality added
• Number of changes in the interface
• Many fixes and improvements

How to update?

Just visit the website and download the new version:http://wonderwebware.com/css-menu/

The new version of Template Shaker is finally here. It took really long time, mainly because I rewrote the whole tool twice in the last several months. No many new templates, but I finally added important new features…

Some of the news:

* CleanPage and UltraSimplicity templates rewritten. If you used these templates for your sites, you may want rebuild your site templates with the new versions to avoid the old menu code. In the old versions of these templates the pull-down menu was really ugly, with all these IE6 fixes. Now the menu uses other IE6 fix that doesn’t break the code.

* Menu Editor Added — Now you can edit the menus from the Shaker itself. This is the answer of the frequently asked question "how to edit menu structure"

* Two menu templates with bundled menu generator now added for "pro-version" customers only. This is the most useful "pro-version" improvement

* Several important fixes and improvements in the program itself (like open/save buttons, external IE preview…)

NOTE: Before installing the new version, please — uninstall the old version first! It should work if you just install the new version over the old one (at least it worked in my tests here), but it is always better to remove the old files first…

How to update?

If you are pro-version customer, just click "Get the new version" button to update your installation.

If you are using the free version — visit the product section of this site and get the new version from the download page: http://wonderwebware.com/templateshaker/

Sitemap Generator 0.941 has been released after really long time of silence. This is just a bug-fix release and special characters are now properly handled (or should be)… I hope I will have more news in the coming days, when the new version of TemplateShaker should become available for download.

The new version has been published more than week ago, but I just forgot to publish the news here. Download here: http://wonderwebware.com/css-menu/

I receive this question relatively often: “how to center a menu generated with css menu generator”. Well, here are two examples - one for centering the menu on page and one for centering menu items. For both examples — I am using simple menu saved directly as xhtml file.

A) centering the menu on page

1) Put the menu in new DIV container (in this example - container class=”wrapper”):

<div class=”wrapper“>
<div class=”pd_menu_01 “>
<ul>
…
</ul>
</div>
</div>

2) in the css section, add this code to center the wrapper div:

.wrapper {
width: 80%;
margin-top: 0px;
margin-right: auto;
margin-bottom: 0px;
margin-left: auto;
}

B) Centering the text of the menu items

To center the text of the menu sub-items, just change the following css code:

.pd_menu_01 ul {list-style-type:none;padding:0; margin:0;}

to:

.pd_menu_01 ul {list-style-type:none;padding:0; margin:0; text-align:center;}

The new version of Site Submit has been published. In this release I doubled the number of directories and added few new features. Download here.

It took me too long to complete the new version of this tool, but — finally — css Template Shaker 2.4 is available for download. One new template added, one modification of existing template (made after user request), several new and updated features (the most important addition is the visual image selector).

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Funny, funny, funny: most of the spam comments (5-10 per day) on this blog comes as comment on the “spammer never sleep” article. Isn’t it funny? Duh, thanks to wordpress developers I just need to mark all these as “spam” and they’re out, but still it’s funny that all the spam comes to this anti-spam post.

I am really happy right now, because CSS Menu Generator received the first donation ever for this site, so — today is special date for me. And naturally — css menu generator becomes “the leader” among my freeware tools. New version coming in a few weeks, by the way :)  Cheers!