Ever wanted to use megamenus on your Drupal website? Frustrated with annoying mega menu modules that do way too much? If you know Panels, you know Menu Mini-Panels! Let it work for you!

1. Menu
Minipanels
A Drupal module for intelligently
constructing mega menus.
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2. Before We Begin
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3. Road Map
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What are Mega Menus?
Mega Menus in Drupal.
Introducing: Menu Minipanels.
Usage.
Short demo.
Questions? Comments?
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4. Presenter
Eric Scott Sembrat
Twitter: @esembrat
Web Developer for the College
of Sciences
Graduate Student at Georgia
State University
eric.sembrat@cos.gatech.edu
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5. Megamenus?
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6. Menus
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Menus are an instrumental piece of your
website.
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A recent trend with website menus is the
inclusion of so-called megamenus.
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7. Megamenus?
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Megamenus (MM) solve issues stemming from
drop-down menu (DDM) structure.
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Problems with DDM include:
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Long, unusable menus.
Shortened, abbreviated menu link text.
Breadth and depth of content shown.
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8. DDMs from Hell
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9. Trending...
You can find examples of
MM all over the Web.
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10. Amazon
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11. The White House
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12. Georgia State
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13. U[sic]GA
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14. GT Redesign
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15. The Power of MMs
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A MM uses two-dimensional drop-down panels
to group structured navigation options without
scrolling. (source)
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A DDM on steroids.
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Gives a feature-full site-map like menu for
accessibility.
Allows for rich media (photos, videos) and
dynamic content to reside in your menu.
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16. So, how do I
create one?
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17. Drupal Modules
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MD Megamenu
OM Maximenu
Megamenu
Superfish
Menu Views
Giga Menu
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18. The Issue
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However, all of these modules make the critical
mistake of reinventing the wheel by creating
duplicate features to what Drupal already does.
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20. Why, oh why, is
this module
re-inventing
Drupal’s menu
functionality?
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22. There has to be a
better way than this!
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23. Introducing
Menu Minipanels
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24. Menu Minipanels
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Menu Minipanels (MMP) takes the power and
flexibility of Panels, Menu, and Views, and
connects them properly to build a seamless
MM.
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Megamenus in MMP are nothing but the Panel
elements you know (and love?).
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Configuration of MMPs are exactly the same
as configuring a Panel, with one extra step.
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25. Suggested Modules
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Menu Minipanels (MMP) can be made a bit
easier with a few Panels-related modules:
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menu_node - Key dependency to the module
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menu_node_views - Views integration for
menu items.
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Note: This is one of those modules that still
has no “stable” release.
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26. Demo
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27. Questions?
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