New Tutorial - Creating a Halo Menu

[ryancbutler]

Whew -- that article took awhile to post. Post at your convenience or alert me to problems.

Thanks,

[Jesse]

Hey Ryan,

Nice work. Sorry for the delay; I normally get notified straight away when someone posts here, but I didn't.

The only suggestion I have is to break it down into multiple pages to make it a little more digestable. You can edit Page 1, go to source mode, select all, then create new pages and and paste into source mode. That will create duplicates of the present content. Then just delete the appropriate bits per page. That's how I tend to do it, to ensure I don't lose any content.

I'd suggest page breaks at the following headings (the headings themselves could then become the page titles):

Create the fade sequence – page header
Submenu buttons
Fade Sequence – Submenu buttons
Why did we convert our submenu buttons to graphics?
Completing the menu



What do you think? If you're going to break it down, once you're done, let me know via a reply here and I'll approve it straight off.

Thanks again for the good work.

[ryancbutler]

I considered doing that before posting and upon reflection it's not a bad idea, so I did. If you could, can you remove all the articles except for Creating a Flash - driven halo menu for my account?

I messed up the process to begin with.

Thanks,

[ryancbutler]

How do you get rid of the duplicate headings (I need the pick) for each subsequent page?

[CyanBlue]

The thing is that the CMS spits out the value of the actual 'title' field the user has filled out and the user puts the title inside of the 'content' field which creates a duplicate title as a result...

To me, it might look better if we somehow not display the content of the 'title' field since the title the user has put in the 'content' field look nicer... ;)

[ryancbutler]

Thanks for the feedback. I would have to agree with that modification.

[Jesse]

OK Ryan, done and done.

CB: Maybe it's too early in the morning but I don't understand your suggestion... or what duplication we're speaking of...

[CyanBlue]

Well... I think it is easier to see... Check on this page...
http://www.actionscript.org/resources/articles/524/2/Creating-a-Flash-driven---Halo-Menu/Page2.html

Right below the Pages link, you see the black text which says 'Create the fade sequence – page header' which I think is coming from the value of the 'title' filed on CMS...
and right below that, there is the red text which says 'Create the fade sequence – page header' which is coming from the value of the 'content' field... and you should either let the users not to put the page title in the 'content' field for each page, or modify the code so that the CMS won't print out the title in black to remove the duplicate...