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Best Crawlable Collapse & Expand Menu System?

         

chucky

8:39 am on Jul 3, 2008 (gmt 0)

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Hi,

I'm having my website re-built. I have categories and sub categories.

I wish the categories links to bring up the sub categories when hovered over.

I don't however want the search engine to follow the sub categories as there would be too many links then and the categories are the optimised terms. I'd rather the search engine went to the category page first. Then followed another link to the sub category page.

What is the best way of doing this? I've read a few posts about Collapse & Expand menus but they seem to be out of date.

Thanks

Receptional Andy

1:46 pm on Jul 5, 2008 (gmt 0)



One way to achieve what you want is by having an unordered list to mark-up the category links on the page, and then have the 'hover' menu controlled entirely by javascript. I don't know of a premade menu that specifically does this, but if you look at what's out there and compare the source (look for an unordered list) you may find what you're after. If you know any javascript/css it shouldn't be too hard to adapt a freely available script for this use.