I have been working with joomla for a while now and have built atleast 10 sites. I don't claim to be a pro, although I'm no stranger to the inner workings of joomla.

One thing I've had mixed results with have been menu systems, more particularly finding one that is cross-compatible between explorer, firefox, and opera. I have found that compatibility is not soley dependent on the menu system itself, but the template you are using as well. So I do not wish to condemn other great menu systems like lxmenu. That being said, JSCookMenu has been the only system in which I have had full compatibility across various platforms. It was easy to install, and worked right out of the box, which I can't say for many of the menu mod's I have installed.

I have noticed a few reviews stating that there are not enough themes or visual customizability, although if you know even a little CSS the menu's are quite flexible.

Overall I think I have installed more than 8 different menu modules, and this one passed with flying stars. My complements to the developers, and many thanks for a wonderful module.

It seems to work pretty good for one copy of the menu. I have multiple menus on my site and it breaks down pretty quickly. The sub-menus for the second and subsequent menus are mis-aligned and appear behind other content. Also, the images for the menus don't appear.

Probably OK if you have one menu on your page... the search continues....

I've tried a vast array of menu extensions in the last week, and they were all duds for one reason or another. Either they looked terrible, conflicted with pre-existing variables, could only show 2 folder levels, were static, or were just plain buggy.

This extension was easy to install, and I had it up and running on my site, and doing exactly what I wanted in only 2 minutes!

the component seems to work grat, apart for a few minor details:

1) It's hard to change the style, and it does not come with a "no-style" option to cature or mimic the style of your site. That makes it look completely out of place, and quite frankly like something an amateur made.

2) The pop-up menus in java appears behind the content, which makes it completely useless.

/Chris

thanks a lot for dear developers of this mod.
but i dont find any help on my problems like (unwanted distance between topmenu and submenu when use at right position of site and its problem in ff ...)
i suggest you creat a section in site wizzud.com for help others..

It's good, but it could use a little work. Adding new themes is a bit of a pain - it involves making new JavaScript and CSS files. Arg. I would love it if the default option set the menus to my site's default colors. Other than that, I have no complaints. It works, it generates drop-down menus, and it works better than some other things I've tried. If the included themes match your site then you're good to go.

I am using this menu system on my side generally spoken it is great. But if you use next to your pop-up menus (horizontal) a flash or a video in your content then the menu disappears behind it. It seems to be layering problem and of course I do not like to modify the layering of my content. For a short term solution I will try to solve it with a high z-Index. I am curious which csv field I have to modify or add in the module code?
If I a got right the new coding of the orignal jsCookMenu Script 1.5 does solve this problem!? Are you planning to do an update on your module?

After trying many menus, I think this is the best. I rated good and not excellent because:
1. Is hard to modify css files if you are a noob, or if you try to make substantial modifications
2. Lack of support and documentation

This module works fine, but its hard to set CSS file.
1) The CSS files are not documented. The user had to guess what styles to change.
2) In HTML code generated haven't active menu item.

Easy to install, minimal configuration needed, works right away and the best of all ... NO BUGS ! I've tried several other menu modules but they still had bugs or they were just to complicated ! Couldn't make any of them to work properly in my site, but JSCookMenu does the job fast and easy !

I found this to be a great mod - especially the unlimited submenus. However, when I tried to validate my pages, I found that the pages under the submenus were not considered valid xhtml.

That and the fact that there does not seem to be a support forum leads me to rate this mod as good instead of excellent.

Example of error message explanation:

Error Line 74 column 198: ID "active_menu" already defined.

...-strategy.html" class="sublevel" id="active_menu">Sales Strategy

An "id" is a unique identifier. Each time this attribute is used in a document it must have a different value. If you are using this attribute as a hook for style sheets it may be more appropriate to use classes (which group elements) than id (which are used to identify exactly one element).

I was able to edit one of the existing CSS themes and get my menus to work the way I wanted relatively easily. It helped to have information from the original developer at http://jscook.yuanheng.org/JSCookMenu/ Not being an expert at CSS, I had trouble with background images and icons like the other reviewers, but it's definitely possible if you edit the CSS themes (check out the Office 2003 theme). I also had some trouble customizing the themes to be cross-browser compatible (the long list of hacks to try are best left to the experts!) It would be great to have a few more options inside the module to customize the look of the menu items without advanced CSS skills, which are necessary in particular for cross-browser compatibility.

Thank you so much for this menu module - it was brilliant! Easy to use & works really well in the 'user1' position on the madeyourweb template, in the horizontal style. The optional images were an added bonus.

Simple to install and fairly easy to change the existing CSS on any of the provided styles.

I unzipped the module file, made changes to the CSS and PHP of one of the premade styles, rezipped, installed the module and I had my menu with dropdowns looking how I wanted.

It is really easy to use, at really works. However, theres som trubling decoding a ig menu wich leaves some emty spase in the temlate, at so making a scrollbar in hight...

To bad.

I tried several menu extensions, looking for a simple pop up presentation of the sub menus for my madeyourweb template. Most did not work properly or not at all after installation (esp. "editors pick"). jscook was easy to install and after minor chnges to the css file was what I was loking for.
Thanks alot!

It could have more options, it's true, but at least it works. I tried three other modules and got nothing out of them but frustration. A sincere 'Thank You' for creating a module that actually works right away.

I have been trying to find a good, fairly easy menu system. After trying nearly all of those listed here, including some called "editors pick" (ahem), this is the first one that really delivered out of the box. The only thing I could add to it is the ability to use custom backgrounds (like allowing it in the CSS) and hover images. Aside from that, it's superb!

After trying fancier transmenu systems (JA transmenu and d4j transmenu) I gave up on them for their problems with alignment expecially on mac platforms with FF and Safari) so far I installed the menu module, published it and kaBoom! All worked great on mac FF and Safari 2! I wish there were options to customize colors or include custom background images for up and hovering states... but that could be a feature to be added in future *HINT!* ;)

Thanks for this great module Wizzud!!!

Peace

This module replaced a hand-built version of JSCookMenu. It was simple to configure the module and CSS to match what I had before. Now I have SEF links!