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Natalie Maclees
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contacted on 10 may '16 _______________ Natalie MacLees is the founder of Purple Pen Productions (purplepen.com), an interactive agency based in Los Angeles, California. She has been designing websites since 1997 and is a passionate advocate of both accessibility and usability. She loves teaching and sharing her knowledge, both in seminars and workshops and also with her clients. She discovered WordPress a few years ago as a flexible, extendable, and quick way to build robust websites that clients could manage on their own. She is the organizer of the Southern California WordPress Meetup Group. She is also a Google Analytics Qualified Individual.
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Customizing the navigation menu


The included CSS with the Superfish plugin makes creating an interactive navigation menu quick and simple, but a soft blue menu isn't going to fit into every design, so let's customize the menu.

We're going to take a look at how we can customize the look of the menu by writing our own CSS, customize the animation to show the nested menus, and enhance the hover behavior of the menu.

We're going to get started by writing some CSS code to create a custom look for our menus. We're going to use the Suckerfish Dropdown approach to create a menu that will work for our site visitors who don't have JavaScript enabled. We're going to create a simple white menu with drop-downs in green with rounded corners, as shown in the following screenshot:

Here are some things to keep in mind as you write custom CSS for a drop-down or fly-out menu.

:hover and .sfHover

In the CSS file provided with the Superfish plugin, you'll see that the :hover pseudoclass is always used together with...

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contacted on 10 may '16 _______________ Natalie MacLees is the founder of Purple Pen Productions (purplepen.com), an interactive agency based in Los Angeles, California. She has been designing websites since 1997 and is a passionate advocate of both accessibility and usability. She loves teaching and sharing her knowledge, both in seminars and workshops and also with her clients. She discovered WordPress a few years ago as a flexible, extendable, and quick way to build robust websites that clients could manage on their own. She is the organizer of the Southern California WordPress Meetup Group. She is also a Google Analytics Qualified Individual.
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