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Overview

CustomMenu is a plug-in. It works as an unique bookmark extension that can manage and display a batch of URLs as dropdown menu on the browser's menu bar (called BatchBookmark hereafter). It's very useful for a personal user or a web developer for the Internet or Intranet.

*CustomMenu version 1.50 only work for Netscape browsers.

System requirement

MS Window95/NT

Netscape 3.0 and above

The version that works on MS I.E. will be available soon .

Software Edition and Price

Software Installation

  1. Unzip the file "cmpdemo.zip" to a directory. For example: C:\CustomMenu.
  2. Close your browser, if it's open.
  3. Open Explorer.exe from MS Windows95/ NT.
  4. Find directory on step 1; double click on file "install.exe" to run it.
  5. Follow the instructions and answer the right question. The CustomMenu will be installed automatically. With the CustomMenu, a BatchBookmark including over 800+ URL will be shown on your browser immediately.
  6. Bookmark the page on your browser. Thereafter, you get the entry to access the BatchBookmark from the browser's Bookmarks.

If you forget to Bookmark the BatchBookmark on step 6, then you can access the BatchBookmark from your browser through the steps listed below.

Create Your Own BatchBookmark

There is a BatchBookmark template file "template.htm" in this software. You are able to create your own BatchBookmark very easily according to this template."Template.htm" can be find in the directory set on installation with default directory "C:\CustomMenu". It can be edited in MS Word 97 View/HTML Source or other editors for HTML. There are a few key words with very simple syntax to create BatchBookmark. They are listed as below:

TITLE="xxxxxx"

TITLE="END"

Set a text string as a title of dropdown menu on browser's menu bar, for example TITLE="Money", Money will be shown on the menu bar. The dropdown menu will end by setting TITLE="END". You are able to create more than one title in your BatchBookmark.

SUBMENU="xxxxxx"

SUBMENU="END"

Set a text string as a submenu in a dropdown menu, for example SUBMENU="Bank". A SUBMENU will end by setting SUBMENU="END". SUBMENU can be cascaded more than once. SUBMENU must be set between a pair of TITLE="xxxxxx" and TITLE="END".

MENUITEM="xxxxx;yyyyy"

Set a hyper link for web site. The first section is the name of a web site and the second section is the web site's hyper link address. For example: MENUITEM="Yahoo;http://www.yahoo.com". MENUITEM can be used more than once and it must be set between a pair of SUBMENU="xxxxx" and SUBMENU="END" or TITLE="xxxxxx" and TITLE="END". There is a semi-colon between the site name and site hyper link address.

SEPARATOR
Set a separate horizontal line on the dropdown menu. It can be used more than once and must be used between a pair of SUBMENU="xxxxx" and SUBMENU="END" or TITLE="xxxxxx" and TITLE="END"

BREAK
Set a break on your dropdown menu for another column. It can be used more than once and must be used between a pair of SUBMENU="xxxxx" and SUBMENU="END" or TITLE="xxxxxx" and TITLE="END"

Example:
TITLE="Business/Money"
SUBMENU="Banking"
MENUITEM="AAAdir Directory of World Banks;http://www.aaadir.com"
MENUITEM="Banks on the Internet;http://www.qualisteam.com/eng/conf.html"
MENUITEM="Bank of America;http://www.bofa.com"
MENUITEM="Bankers Trust;http://www.bankerstrust.com"
MENUITEM="Central Banking Resource Center;http://www.patriot.net/users/bernkopf"
SEPARATOR
MENUITEM="Chase Manhattan;http://www.chase.com"
MENUITEM="Citibank;http://www.citibank.com"
MENUITEM="Fleet Bank;http://www.fleet.com"
MENUITEM="Financial Pipelin;http://www.finpipe.com/"
MENUITEM="PAWWS Financial Network;http://www.pawws.com/"
SUBMENU="END"
TITLE="END"


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