Simplemenu Module Customizations

I'm a big fan of the Simplemenu module for Drupal as it's quite a time-saver when developing a site. It's really handy to have the entire admin menu right at the top of each page.

Clients also love it for it's ease of use and they don't have to navigate to "/admin" everytime they log in and want to make a change to the site. Now they can just hover over the option the want on the top navigation bar accross their browser and drill down to the specific page they want. Very handy and much quicker than manually drilling down to each page. It's been a real time-saver for me so far.

As soon as I installed Simplemenu I knew it was a module I was going to use for quite some time. That's the reason I wanted to skin it and make it look/work better for me and my clients. I also implemented it into a custom Drupal admin theme I am working on which I will release real soon. So check back for that one early next week.

My custom menu:

Although my changes are minor I would stil like to thank the author for creating such a useful module written by Ted Serbinski, aka, m3avrck. I took what he had supplied and modified the CSS, JavaScript (just a little) and added a few new images.

These changes look and work great in Safari, FireFox and IE7. It works in IE6 just fine but the top level menu background doesn't stay colored when you drill down to the sub menus. I'm sure it's an easy fix but I didn't bother researching it much since..well it's IE6. If anyone wants me to fix it then please let me know and I'll give it a shot.

So for now - if you'd like you can go ahead and download my modified version of the Simplemenu module for Drupal.

Please direct all feedback/comments/questions to me in this thread so I can update and improve it as needed.