1.  I haven't seen the book, but it seems pretty likely that you can
change most or all references to "Jos Coffee" to your own company name
without breaking the code.  Make a backup of the code and try it!

2.  It is possible to create the menus you describe using the latest
DHTML code and style sheets in the latest browsers.  But chances are
that some of your customers won't have the latest browser... how would
they get around your site?  Also, your questions suggest that you're
pretty new to web programming... building your own menus in DHTML would
probably be a challenge.

Javascript is used often for this task because it's powerful and it's
recognized by many more browsers than the latest DHTML.  While I'm
guessing that you won't find it easy to write your menus in Javascript
either, if you look on the web for the many sites where Javascript
developers share their code (one is at http://javascript.internet.com/)
you're likely to find menu code that you can modify to suit your needs.
Maybe you'll find a ready-made DHTML code set too!

Macromedia's Fireworks 4 makes it *very* easy to build the menus you
describe.  Last week I created a full web site navigation system with
1/2 dozen main menus and twice as many supplementary menus, complete
with rollovers and other nice interactive features, in less than 20
minutes.  It created all the Javascript and HTML for a lightweight
no-image menu system which I just dropped into my code.  It's also a
brilliant program for creating web graphics of various kinds.  Costs
$299 U.S. from http://www.macromedia.com and probably less from
resellers.  They have a free trial, but I don't know if it offers all
features.

HTH


-----Original Message-----
From: Webmaster [mailto:Webmaster@E...] 
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 8:52 PM
To: HTML Code Clinic
Subject: [html_code_clinic] Beginning E-Commerce

I am reading the Beginning E-Commerce with Visual Basic, ASP and SQL
Server
7.0 and MTS, written by Matthew Reynolds and I have two questions.

1. In the book and on the Wrox site, they have code that refers to Jos
Coffee.  Do I replace the "Jos Coffee" with my own names?  Do I need to
edit
the code to make it work with my own names, or should I just follow the
instructions exactly as they are in the book by naming everything "Jos
Coffee" and whatnot?

2. I see alot of web sites that have drop down navigation buttons with
subcategories that pop out from the main categories (check out
Microsoft.com).  Everyone tells me that this is just HTML code - how do
I do
this and where can I get the code?  Can I do this in VB or Front Page?
Are
there any programs that I can use to make this happen?


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