In anticipation for the new layout which doesn’t exist yet, unless I wasn’t told, I started working on the new format for the navigation bars. The new bars will allow you to collapse each section of the bar. Not only this, but it’ll also save your settings automatically to a cookie stored on your computer. I’m tempted to go into a techno-jabber about the fun inner-workings of the script, so I will!

Each time you click closed or open each section of the navigation, it changes a style in each section that hides or shows it. Also, each time that parameter is changed, it saves the data for each navigation section (whether it’s open or closed) to a cookie (file on your computer that saves small bits of data from websites). Then, each time you open the site, the cookie is read (the cookie looks like this: navigationcookie=10101) and the navigation bars are kept open or closed whether or not the cookie data shows a 1 or a 0. It’s that simple! Now I bet everyone is going to go out and try to make their own user-changable navigation bar!

I’m pretty sure it works in all browsers. If you want to try out the new bar, click here. The test there is rough, but displays all the functionality that the final product will have…except working links…I didn’t feel like typing them out.

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