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Watermark Navigation Menu Free Code - DHTML Script

This DHTML script will make a navigation menu that will follow your screen as you scroll, kind of like the old Geocities" watermark.

Instructions:
Look through the code for comments that will tell you where to change the code to configure it how you want in order to display the links that you want.

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Insert this code before </head>

<STYLE TYPE="text/css">
<!--

.menuheader {
    BORDER-COLOR : #000000 ;
    cursor : hand ;
    Border-Left : #000000 ;
    Border-Top : #000000 ;
    Padding-Left : 1px ;
    Padding-Top : 1px ;
    Background-Color : #000000 ;
}

.menu {
    Background-Color : white ;
}

.home {
    cursor : hand ;
}

.menulinks {
    text-decoration:none;
}

//-->
</STYLE>

Insert this code before </body>

<SCRIPT Language="Javascript1.2">
<!--

///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// Change the width and placement of the menu on the page below.
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

var menuwidth=110
var offsetleft=10
var offsettop=10

var ns4=document.layers?1:0
var ie4=document.all?1:0
var ns6=document.getElementById&&!document.all?1:0

function makeStatic() {
if (ie4) {object1.style.pixelTop=document.body.scrollTop+offsettop}
else if (ns6) {document.getElementById("object1").style.top=window.pageYOffset+offsettop}
else if (ns4) {eval(document.object1.top=eval(window.pageYOffset+offsettop));}
setTimeout("makeStatic()",0);
}

if (ie4||ns6) {document.write('<span ALIGN="CENTER" ID="object1" STYLE="Position:absolute; Top:20; Left:'+offsetleft+'; Z-Index:5;cursor:hand;background-color:black;"><TABLE BORDER="1" width="'+menuwidth+'" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" BORDERCOLOR="black" bgcolor="white">')}
else if (ns4){ document.write('<LAYER top="20" name="object1" left="'+offsetleft+'" BGCOLOR=black><TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="1"><TR><TD><TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" width="'+menuwidth+'">')}

///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// Change the name of the menu (the text at the top) below.
// You can also shange the font face, size and border colors.
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

if (ie4||ns6||ns4)
document.write('<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#3399FF" BORDERCOLORDARK="#99CCFF" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#003399"><P ALIGN=CENTER><FONT SIZE="4" FACE=ARIAL>Navigation</FONT></TD></TR>')

var menui = new Array();
var menul = new Array();

///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// Edit menus listing here. You can make as many as you need,
// just make sure that the numbers go up in order correctly.
// The "menui" variables are the actual link text that will
// show up in the menu. The "menul" variables are the URLs
// that match the text displayed there.
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

menui[0]="road2webmaster Software";
menui[1]="road2webmaster HTML Editor";
menui[2]="road2webmaster Help Site";
menui[3]="road2webmaster Site Map";
menui[4]="Other road2webmaster Products";
menui[5]="Bob & Larry\'s Free Stuff";
menui[6]="About road2webmaster Software";
menui[7]="other";

menul[0]="http://www.road2webmaster.com";
menul[1]="http://www.road2webmaster.com/";
menul[2]="http://www.road2webmaster.com/";
menul[3]="http://www.road2webmaster.com/";
menul[4]="http://www.road2webmaster.com/";
menul[5]="http://www.road2webmaster.com/";
menul[6]="http://www.road2webmaster.com/";
menul[7]="http://www.road2webmaster.com";

for (i=0;i<=menui.length-1;i++)

///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// You can change table cell background colors below.
// Just change the color names to whatever you want,
// but do NOT change any other code.
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

if (ie4||ns6) {document.write('<TR><TD BORDERCOLOR="white" ONCLICK="location=\''+menul[i]+'\'" onmouseover="className=\'menuheader\'" onMouseout="className=\'menu\'"><CENTER><FONT>'+menui[i]+'</FONT></TD></TR>')}
else if (ns4){document.write('<TR><TD BGCOLOR="white"><ILAYER><LAYER width="'+menuwidth+'" onmouseover="bgColor=\'yellow\'" onmouseout="bgColor=\'white\'"><CENTER><A HREF="'+menul[i]+'" class=menulinks>'+menui[i]+'</A></CENTER></LAYER></ILAYER></TD></TR>')}

if (ie4||ns6) {document.write('</TABLE></span>')}
else if (ns4){document.write('</TABLE></TD></TR></TABLE></LAYER>')}

function menu3(){
if (ns6||ie4||ns4)
makeStatic()
}

window.onload=menu3

//-->
</SCRIPT>

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