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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. 

For personal users, the software provides a BatchBookmark which includes over 800+
classified popular URLs and shows the URLs on the browsers menu bar as dropdown menu automatically 
after installation. The working behavior of the BatchBookmark is similar to the common bookmarks on the 
browser, so you can navigate web site directly from the menu, which is very easy, fast and efficient. The 
software also provides a template and instructions for the users who hopes to build their own 
BatchBookmark or do a modification on the provided one. 

For web developers,  CustomMenu is a very powerful approach to build your web page. It provides a 
capability for your web page to show a large quantity of web index in multiple levels with a very small 
footprint. User can navigate what they want directly from the index on the browser's menu bar, instead of 
digging in web page more than once. Meanwhile you are able to display more information or advertisement 
instead of an index on your web page. In the Professional Edition, there are more instructions and samples 
to show you how to create your own BatchBookmark in the CustomMenu. 

==== 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  ====

Shareware Edition
Free, one-month trial. After that period  it will invalid automatically. Before it is invalid, software will 
show warning message three times. 

Stander Edition
$19.95, license for a single person, using CustomMenu to create and employ BatchBookmark Only for 
local PC. 

Professional Edition
$280.00, annual license for 3 users and the right to use the CustomMenu feature to build web pages for the 
Internet or Intranet publication. 

For more price information, see Registration Information

==== 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. 
6. With the CustomMenu, a BatchBookmark including over 800+ URL will be shown on your browser          
immediately.
7. 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.

1. Click File on your Browser's menu. 
2. Select Open Page. 
3. Click the Choose File button to get the directory setup on step 5, default one is "C:\CustomMenu". 
4. Click "BatchBM.htm" to select this file. 
5. Click Open button again and again, and BatchBookmark will show up on the browser. 
6. Do step 6 to set an entry for BatchBookmark in your Browser's Bookmarks. 

====== 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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