DHTML / Java Menu help

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I would like to make a horizontal DHTML Menu for my site. I heard DHTML is better than java as the search engines will be able to read DHTML but not java menus. Is this correct?

Secondly, can u recommend a tool or download which will help with making a horizontal dropdown category menu?

Thanks,
Schlange

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1st of all DHTML is basicly the same thing as HTML. Its just combineing JavaScript with events passed for the HTML.
Java and JavaScript are two totaly diffrent languages. Make sure your talking about the right one.

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Thanks for clearing that up bja888.

Do webcrawlers parse and understand javascript? I heard they really only can parse DHTML/HTML or at least they prefer to parse it and do not impact your sites ranking.

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you can download this software on a free trial
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/WEB-Design/Menu-Creators/Javascript-Menu-Master.shtml
But in the long run its better to learn javascript

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vibins

Thanks for the link to the menu tool. This will be valuable to creating a javascript menu.

Do you know if javascript menu can be read by google and other search engines? Confused

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I'm pretty sure that you're menu's will be read by search engines. if you wanted to get fancy and write it in PHP I granentee that the search engine can read it. But as I understand it, the search engine's robot sees your page just like a user would. Anything that can be seen on access is seen by the search engine robot. I'm not sure if the drop down stuff is seen or not...

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the only menus the search engines can follow are ones where there is Anchor directly in the source code. If it is written on to the page by javascript {document.write(URI) } or uses object.location then it won't be.

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