Build Drop Down Menu in Flash VS Professional Flash Menu Maker

Make a Good Drop Down Menu for Your Website

One of the main things you must determine when designing a web site is what kind of navigation/menu system you will use to make it easy for your visitors to find their way around the site. You need an intuitive, professional, and fast-loading menu. SEO friendly and good looking.

There are many ways to create a navigation menu, such as through DHTML and JavaScripting or make drop down menu in Flash. Moreover, professional Flash Menu Builder is a better choice. Let's compare!

 

Build Drop Down Menu in Flash

You can create one drop down menu in Flash, which gives you a greater breadth of customization and can let you make your menu's appearance and animation more unique. However, not everyone knows how to use Adobe Flash, and getting started with this Flash tool is not so easy.

Even though the Flash technology offers the best and richest multimedia experience, it still has a serious disadvantage, Flash content is invisible to search engines. Perhaps this is the reason for some people to reject building drop down menu in flash.

Please refer to https://www.entheosweb.com/Flash/video_tutorials/drop_down_menu.asp for the video tutorial of building a drop down menu in Flash.

In this video tutorial you will learn how to create a simple drop down menu in Flash. The tutorial covers the basics behind developing a simple drop down menu by using transparent buttons to create the rollover effect.

 

Make Search Engine Friendly Drop Down Menu with Flash Menu Builder (Suggested)

Since it is not so easy to make drop down menu in Flash, and the most important is, the output Flash content is invisible to search engine. So many professional Flash menu builders come into the market, such as Sothink Flash Menu, which not only requires NO Flash and ActionScript skills, but also allows you to generate search engine friendly code.

Sothink Flash Menu provides plenty of preset menu styles which can be applied to menu items in one click; to make a distinctive Flash menu that satisfies your imagination, you can customize menu styles with thousands of combinations for menu display, special effect, background, distance, space, color, font, image, cursor, separator and icon. In a word, with Sothink Flash Menu, you can make a unique SE friendly web menu in just 5 minutes.

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Sothink Flash Menu is friendly to the search engine spiders by following three ways:

• Generate the SE friendly code and insert it to webpage
• Make XML sitemap and submit it to main-stream Search Engine
• Generate sitemap to help navigate site and make it to be indexed by Search Engine

 

1. Search Engine Friendly Code Maker

Intro: This tool enables to generate special codes which are readable for web crawlers; and these SE friendly codes can enhance the presence and visibility of a website on search engine listings. The maker will behave like sitemap if JavaScript is forbidden in the browser, which the menu is shown in text link.
Usage: After publishing the menu into page, you can check button in the program to open dialog, and click “Copy All” button to copy these codes, and paste them behind the menu code between tag within webpage.
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2. Google XML Sitemap

Intro: This tool can generate XML sitemap, which is special for Google search engine. This XML sitemap makes good use of the search engine spiders’ time by make the engines index pages from your site efficiently; and provides the opportunity to make search engines know priority, update time and change frequency.

Usage: Finishing the menu configuration, you can check button in the program to open dialog; input your website link and check the related options to set sitemap; click “Save XML” button to save XML sitemap to defined path. At last, submit this XML sitemap to Google.
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3. Generate Sitemap

Intro: Sitemap allows search engine crawlers index the website easily; it enables to make SE find all the pages. Even some internal links, sitemap still improves Page Rank or link popularity to all pages it links. Also sitemap helps with usability and site navigation based on existing menu structure used in website.
Usage: Completing the menu creation, you can check button in the program to open dialog; choose theme, attach CSS and check the related options to set sitemap page; click “Save…” button to save HTML page to defined path.
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We have introduced above-mentioned SE friendly ways in Flash menu creation. You can choose the best way based on your website.

 

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