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Overview
Glide Panel Magic is a PVII Widget that lets you present some or all of your Web page content in a logically structured, engaging, and compact format (as this page illustrates). You can, for instance, display product facts, multi-part forms, or multi-step tutorials, in logical chunks—and in a unique and visually engaging way. The Glide Panel Magic navigation bar quickly identifies major sections and minimizes page scrolling by keeping more information above the fold.
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Uncompromisingly usable
Your information is presented in a search engine-friendly, standards-based (x)html structure that's accessible to all users at all times, even when JavaScript is not available. Navigation links are keyboard accessible and act as ordinary named anchors when JavaScript is not available, to deliver users straight to the relevant content.
The navigation bar and the content panels are presented in a 2-column unit with links to the left and content on the right. You can insert your widget inside any DIV or table cell and it will adapt to the width of that element, whether the width is fixed, liquid, or fluid.
Features and Requirements
As a PVII Widget, Glide Panel Magic is automated and rich with useful features.
- Insert in a DIV or table cell anywhere on your page
- Insert as many widgets on a given page as you want
- Each widget can have an unlimited number of content panels
- Each content panel can have an additional sub-content block that can be displayed in a sidebar or anywhere on your page
- Navigation bar supports links to external pages, as well as to content panels
- Automatic link state management and current link marking
- Choose which panel shows on page load
- Choose from 2 glide animations or a fade
- Supports URL parameters to open a specific content panel from an external link
- Includes a Dreamweaver behavior to assign panel control behaviors to any existing link on your page
- Comes with 6 customizable CSS themes
- If your page contains multiple widgets, each one can be assigned a separate style theme
- User interface automates the insertion process
- User interface permits modification of all existing widgets on your page
- User interface allows adding, deleting, or re-ordering of content panels and their associated links at any time
- User interface allows you to change the style theme for any widget at any time
- Included editable Fireworks images
- Comprehensive user guide included
- Free and unlimited tech support
Requirements
Glide Menu Magic requires Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 or higher or Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 or higher—on either Windows or Mac OS X.
Fireworks MX 2004 or higher is recommended to facillitate editing navigation bar background images. You can, however, recreate or substitute your own images made in any image editing program.
Browser support
Glide Panel Magic is fully functional in all modern browsers (Windows, Mac, and Linux) and degrades gracefully in older browsers.
User Interface
The Glide Panel Magic interface lets you create one or more Glide Panel widgets on your page instantly.
The UI allows you to:
- Add, remove, or reposition the Trigger Links and their respective content panels
- Set or edit the Trigger Text
- Make a Trigger Link a link Only so that it loads a new page rather than triggering a content panel
- Set or change the content panel that shows when the page loads
- Set or change the Animation Method
- Set or remove the Current Marker feature
- Enable or disable Back Button support
- Set or change the Style Theme
Style Themes
Glide Panel Magic includes 6 style themes.
Customization
The navigation bar can be separated from the content column and placed anywhere on your page—in a left or right column or at the top of your page. You can even style your navigation bar to display horizontally. The following pages show two custom methods that are fully documented in the Glide Panel Magic User Guide: