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World of Warcraft website sidebar – how to design?

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Apr 29.2008

If you go to blizzards world of warcraft website. [url]www.Worldofwarcraft.com[/url] and look at the side control bar of the site, how you can click on a panel topic to reveal sub topics and close them up. How was this done, was it done via flash. I am guessing not since everyone I speak to says don’t use flash for you navigation bar. I don’t need the code all written out unless your ambitious ?
but a basic explaination would be nice.

The reason I want to know is I want to create a navigation bar like theirs for my site.

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@bathurst_guyApr 29.2008 — It's not Flash, most likely JavaScript but that's not recommended either. CSS is best option these days. Go to www.css-play.co.uk and click on Menus link. There are heaps of good menus/navigations for you to customise. Just check the copyright info as each menu have different requirements.
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@BStoltmanauthorApr 30.2008 — So it is believe to be pure javascript. Then I guess the question I have is - why precicisly is this not a recommended method. With over 9million subscribers - if this is such a bad method for the control bar - why can they use it. I have never heard anyone say "I can't navigate the World of Warcraft site."

Thanks for the input.

Blake
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@bathurst_guyMay 01.2008 — Disable javascript and try. Or use a screenreader that blind people use.

The question isn't "Why not use JavaScript?" it should be "Why use JavaScript when it can be done in CSS?"

Make your site as accessible as possible or you might suffer the consequences:

http://www.davidleeking.com/2006/09/08/target-being-sued-for-website-inaccessibility/
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@IL14N4May 06.2008 — I too, suggest sticking with css. It's less coding

involved unless you use a javascript editor, but you

still need to know how to use the editor. javascript

scripts take some computing power, css is more effective for

this situation, and faster to load on a browser than javascript.

You can also achieve nice visual effects with css with little to

no images, hence that's one of the reasons it load faster on a

browser than javascript.
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