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Design #703 (new!) Overview, Key Features & Color Variations


This month we asked our community what they wanted to see in the next ZIP site design. We got some fantastic responses and we’ve tried to answer some of the more popular ones in one design.

Design #703
comes with 3 light, and 3 dark styles. Although structurally the same, these two template bases create very different designs and allow for an extremely varied array of uses. Also, Design #703 uses a variation of a new CSS technique to provide a completely table-less design with a minimum of CSS hacks while still retaining module collapsing capabilities.

Other great features include 3 built-in menu variations: SplitMenu2, SplitMenu, and Suckerfish, as well as an option to use a module in place of the built-in menus. 12 Module positions, 4 module style variations, Accessibility options to choose font sizes, Ability to configure as Fluid or Fixed-width, the list goes on and on!

 

 

This ZIP site is designed to use the fantastic Flash based gallery script called Monoslideshow. Monoslideshow is a commercial slideshow software and is not included with Design #703. Monoslideshow can be to added to your site for only $19.95. You'll be glad you did.

 

Overview

An overview of the key features of this ZIP site are as follows:

  • Great portal style design
  • Clean pure CSS/Tableless Design
  • 6 modern and sophisticated color variations 3 light, and 3 dark
  • Light versions are very subtle and subdued suiting stores, businesses, etc. The dark versions are very bold and vivid suiting photography or gallery based sites as well as sporting, gaming, etc.
  • 4 module style variations to spice up your module content
  • Lots of integrated content styles
  • Easily customizable to be used in Fluid or Fixed-width configurations
  • 4 built-in menu options - 2 Level tab menu (Splitmenu2), Tab menu with vertical sub-menu (Splitmenu), Drop-down menu (Suckerfish), and a module position to use your own custom menu module (Module)
  • Separate tabbed top-menu
  • Integration and styling for Litebox - a faster leaner alternative to LightBox 2.0 utilizing a highly optimized and compressed version of the moo.fx javascript library
  • 12 fully collapsible module positions for the most flexible layout options possible
  • Lightweight and fast-loading design
  • Accessibility options to allow your users to change the rendered font size
  • W3C XHTML 1.0 Transitional. W3C CSS Valid
  • Accessible - Section 508 and WAI
  • Fully compatible IE6, IE7, Safari 2, Firefox 1.5+, Opera 9, OmniWeb, Shira, Netscape.

Some screenshots showing these capabilities can be seen below:


Style 1Style 2Style 3

Color variations:

Style 4Style 5Style 6
Style 7Style 8Style 9

ButtonMenu, Splitmenu, and Suckerfish Information

The exclusive Bulaworks menu systems in this template use the mainmenu by default and this menu is configured in the admin administator. For these to function correctly, understand that the ‘top level’ menu items will show up as the horizontal buttons across the top of the template. For sub menu items, assign Parent Item to these top menus to the top-level item. These will then show up below in a sub-horizontal menu when you click on a top-level item.

Module Positions

Module positions are summarized in the diagram below:

 

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