[thelist] Drop down menus w/o layers & Printable pages

[Biddy Hughes]

Hello

I'm a web project manager working in a design house....  One of our clients
has requested some technical neccessities that we (our HTML programmers & I)
are not familiar with - we're mostly a front end GUI design house...

*  We're trying to find a solution for a scalable website that also contains
drop down menus.

In the past we've used DHTML & javascript and layers to create these
drop-down menus....  It has been suggested that we can do this without using
layers.....  this will enable the drop-down menus to move as the page
scales...    Is anyone familiar with this?  If so, can you please point me
to a resource that covers this?

Also, we're designing the site to 600x800 dimensions....and we must provide
a printable page...  I understand that there is a tag/piece of code that can
just pull the data out of the page when the visitor hits the print icon -
i.e. it prints the page content instead of cutting off the page content at
the 640 mark....  Is anyone familiar with this?

I hear that this is only possible if the content is already in a database,
and it is already being pulled out and placed into a template page, like an
ASP website. Is this true?

I appreciate any and all help and comments,

thanks so much,

biddy hughes
project manager
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