Constructing and designing top-level navigation with drop-down content panels.

Menu panels offer a more robust menu experience, useful when designs require multiple types and levels of links, headers, or images.

Create a Menu Architect Page

Choose Panel as the Menu Type.

Customize the sample content.

The new panel menu page will be pre-populated with a menu layer and two panel layers. The menu layer defines the top-level menu items, and each panel layer is attached to one top-level menu item.

 

 

In the preloaded menu page, the second layer is a two-columned panel that will drop down when you click on Departments. The third layer is a two-columned panel that will drop down when you click on Projects. 

    1. To customize the top-level menu items, edit the first block on the page and create a custom bullet list of top-level menu items.
    2. To customize the panels, edit the blocks in the second layer of the page.
    3. To create additional panels, select an existing panel layer and the amount of columns needed, and then press the + Panel Layer button 

 

 

Connect panels to top-level menu items.

The menu page now has top-level menu items and panel layers. To connect the two:

    1. In the Menu Tab, expand a Panel Layer and then Handling.

    2. Enter the name of the corresponding top-level menu item in the Name section of the block.

      • e.g. enter Departments as the block name for a panel that should drop down from a top-level "Departments" menu item.

 

 

Further design the menu panels.

  • Add background images, such as icons, to the blocks in the menu panels.
  • Add an Action Button macro to draw attention to select links.
  • Create structure by using headings.

 

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