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Urgent - accordion style left hand navigation bar

I have 8 hours to have this done (see the area in the red box on my screenshot).

I am really struggling with all aspects. I'm stressed and not thinking well because I am stressed.

How can I accomplish this?

The criteria are:

-It must look as close to the mock-up as possible
-It must function as an "accordion" style menu.
-The arrow on the right edge of the button must point down when sub items are visible, and be pointing to the right when the menu is collapsed.

I've made **some** progress with the accordion, thanks to some expert help, but it still has a long way to go, IMHO.

If there are some inexpensive tools that can help this, I would be willing to go that route as well. Anything to make this easier.

Here are some purchases I am considering:

CSS3 Menu Maker:
http://css3menu.com/

but I am not confident it supports "accordion" type menus

Flash Accordion:
http://www.oxylusflash.com/flashfiles/unlimited-levels-accordion-menu-as3

If I could make the accordion look like the screenshot, this would work.

Thanks,

Tom

DjDezmond

I cant see a screenshot dude...

Tom Knowlton

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>>>I cant see a screenshot dude...

Maybe because I forgot to attach it.... :P

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DjDezmond

Do you know what, there are many fancy ways to do the rounded edges and frilly bits in CSS, but the quickest and easiest (but lazy way), is to crack open photoshop, or any imaging software and create two images... one rounded box with a sideways arrow, and one with a downwards arrow.

Set these as the background images for the selected and unselected CSS classes respectively. and your foretext should be rendered on top.

Tom Knowlton

ASKER

>>>>>Do you know what, there are many fancy ways to do the rounded edges and frilly bits in CSS, but the quickest and easiest (but lazy way), is to crack open photoshop, or any imaging software and create two images... one rounded box with a sideways arrow, and one with a downwards arrow.

Set these as the background images for the selected and unselected CSS classes respectively. and your foretext should be rendered on top.
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I really like this idea...I will probably go this route.

DjDezmond

Here is abit of a tutorial from the ASP.Net site that may help you along.
http://www.asp.net/ajaxlibrary/act_Accordion.ashx

Good luck...

Tom Knowlton

ASKER

thx

Tom Knowlton

ASKER

Thanks.

I found a tool for $85 from Likno.com that builds accordions.

Seems to be what I needed.