Mega menus are a growing trend in web design (see Mega Menus: The Next Web Design Trend from Sitepoint). For sites that involve a lot of pages and/or products, a mega menu may be able to improve navigation and usability. In this post we’ll look at 25 examples of mega menus in action.

Many of those featured in this post are from e-commerce websites. Mega menus are common on e-commerce sites because they typically include a lot of categories of different products, and so mega menus can be very useful for visitors. They are also a possibility for other large websites where fewer clicks can be used to get to a specific page with a mega menu.

Steven Snell - Design Mag

Update 2009/08/10: Thanks to the Geekology readers who pointed out that the previous version of the geekGaTrackPage function reloaded script files without caching them; This has now been corrected by using a jQuery AJAX call with caching enabled. The new code is displayed below, and the new version of the plugin can be downloaded at the bottom of the post.

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UPDATE (9th Sept 2009):

I've noticed some odd things happening on this server. So sorry the demo site had to be taken offline to due security reasons and i haven't the time to keep it updated.

However, you can download this package and play with it on your localhost. If you plan, on installing it as a live site, please make sure you update Drupal and modules used in this package to the latest versions.

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In the first part of this article, i tried to create a default Joomla site using Drupal and through this, i had discovered some flaws which made the site somewhat inflexible trying to do it the Joomla way.

So in this article, i explore ways that we can harness Drupal to build a more flexible site utilising the site structure and content that i already have from creating the Joomla site using Drupal. read more »

Gigya Socialize provides a single API that aggregates authentication and social APIs from Facebook Connect, MySpace ID, Twitter, Google, Yahoo, and AOL.

The new Socialize module for Drupal is fully configurable and installs in minutes with no programming.

Free Drupal Webinar on 4th August 2009

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UPDATE (9th Sept 2009):

I've noticed some odd things happening on this server. So sorry the demo site had to be taken offline to due security reasons and i haven't the time to keep it updated.

However, you can download this package and play with it on your localhost. If you plan, on installing it as a live site, please make sure you update Drupal and modules used in this package to the latest versions.

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Over the weekend I was reminiscing over Joomla and why I had decided to go with Drupal. I still miss the wonderful vibrant Joomla community at times and how quick it was to build a website compare to Drupal. But I don’t miss the limitations of Joomla core system. However, Drupal does have it's own issues as well and that is, you tend to find quite often you'll need some kind of glue module (usually some custom code) to tie the pieces of modules together if something more specific is required. read more »

Nikon has unveiled the world's first compact camera with an in-built projector. The S1000pj projects images up to 40 inches in size with a VGA resolution and a maximum distance of 2 meters. The camera is supplied with a remote control and stand for ease of use. It features an optically stabilized wide angle 5x zoom lens (28-140mm equiv.), 2.7 inch LCD and a 12.1MP sensor.

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