Site Developers Notes for the Law Office Of D. L. Drain, PA:
Some of the layout, design and formatting of this site was done by Diane L. Drain.
Our involvement in this aspect was to try to convey how an average Internet user might react to the layout. Our emphasis was to make it easy to understand Bankruptcy, in layman's terms.
We also designed/created the Front page of this site, including most of the images and there placement as well as provided the famous quotes related to law.
The main menu system was designed by Information Technology Management, LLC (now known as Bluegrass, IT, LLC.
The menu system implemented on this site uses DHTML code. DHTML or Dynamic HTML is a Microsoft enhancement to the HTML version 4.0 standard that lets you create special effects such as text that flies off the page one word at a time, or a rotating billboard-style transition as well as advanced site navigation (menus) methods.
The various DHTML menu features used on this site are summarized as follows:
Advanced Unfolding Effects (AUE) engine developed by xFS JumpStart, in conjunction with Microsoft's Direct X technology, enabled the effects we are using, such as;
The Fading of the menu as it drops down
Menu Transparency, as the menu drops down you can see the text on the page behind it, while not distracting from the menu.
The menu system was compiled into a Java script that is 100% compatible with, Internet Explorer 4, 5, 5.5 and 6.0, Netscape Navigator 4 and 6 and Opera 5 under Windows, Mac and Linux.
However, you must understand that you will never be able to obtain the same nice looking menus that you see under Internet Explorer while using Netscape or Opera, especially Opera because this browser is still very limited and its support for standards is incomplete.
Fully compliant with the HTML W3C Standard
The menus work under all DOM-based browsers
What is a DHTML DOM Browser?
DHTML DOM Browser is a programming tool that allows a programmer to get a glimpse inside the browser while it is rendering a page.
Even with the advent of Web standards, individual browser authors make implementation decisions that affect Web page authors. DOM elements have implementation-specific properties that allow for taking advantage of features above and beyond those specified in the standards. The DOM Browser exposes many of those properties and allows investigation of their use.
How does it work?
The DOM Browser sits outside the page being browsed and, therefore, does not affect the performance of the code running in that page. As a result, pages can always be run under the DHTML DOM Browser during development.
