Horizontal vs. Vertical Menus

Hi, is there an (easy) way to change the menus so that they are positioned vertically on the left side of the page - and the sub-menus fly out horizontally towards the right?

I've discovered that a lot of space is taken up by the menus and the adverts in advert1 and advert2, and there is a lot of blank space between the modules...

So, especially for people who have a lot of tool bars open, or have a widescreen laptop (or the new netbooks), they don't see the content when they view the page for the first time.

If I can move the logo and menus to the left, then I can shift everything else up a little and maybe make the modules advert1 & advert2 narrower... and then the design will look more attractive as well as being more functional...

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Thanks, I've done that. I think it would be very useful to have the option to choose between horizontal "drop down" menus and vertical "fly right" menus in your template management configuration.

Nowadays, more and more people have narrow wide-screen computers (especially the netbooks) - and there are lots of menus and ribbons across the top of browsers, so there is very little space left for seeing the actual content of a website.

In the future, because of the new wide-screen design of computers, I think all menus, ribbons and taskbars will end up on the side in a vertical layout.

This will allow designers and users to have maximum space for reading content without having to scroll a lot or switch between full-screen and ordinary viewing modes.

Everybody in my family has wide-screen computers, and we set the windows task bar vertically, only use firefox because you can get an extension that puts the tabs vertically (IE doesn't let you)... but we still have problems with office products because Office 2010 doesn't allow you to move the ribbon to the side, like in the previous versions of Office.

I think my customers will be doing the same and will appreciate it if I design my web page to have the navigation menu down the left side of the page.

Oh, I just noticed that this forum also has a menu on the left, as well as a fairly thin horizontal menu at the top...

In template manager, click "hot_blankie - Default" to see the Blankie template parameters. Then go to the Menu Options tab. You can see all your menus listed there. For each of them, you can select drop-down (horizontal menu with drop-down submenus) and Joomla classic (classic Joomla menu - vertical or horizontal mode).

Sorry, I tried that. The classic menus are ugly (!) and they don't have fly-out submenus when you hover/click on them.

I've already submitted a feature request to include this when you upgrade your templates.

Please let me know if you can do this. If not then please can you explain how I can do it myself.
Thanks.

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