Dynamic Link Viewer

This is a menu for any website that can hold an infinate number of links, each with a description. Select categories from the dropdown box, with up to 15 links per category (in this particular version) and an unlimited number of categories. Even a massive website can have every webpage accessable from a single box at the bottom of every page. The links, categories and descriptions are all pulled from easy to edit text files.

The Flash itself is a mere 17 KB, and the text files for the 60 links and descriptions displayed here are less than 8 KB total, so this system is an efficient addition to a website, though is not intented to completely replace standard HTML links.

Download this sample.

There are numerous options for this menu panel, including small sidebar versions where links are contained in a second dropdown box, or perhaps a tall sidebar. Background images could be used so a different image could be dynamically loaded for each category, or even a tiled image to save bandwidth. And of course, there are many animation options for the links. If bandwidth isn't a major concern, there could be an intro animation for each category, perhaps from dynamically downloaded .swf files, or instead of link descriptions, perhaps link animations...