I would like to find out more about upgrading to Menu 2.0 I'm a newbie and just starting to redesign a nonprofit site in NetCommunity. Would like any information on what the Menu 2.0 upgrade (it's hard to find info on it here) the benefits (pros and cons).

 Thanks

Grace

The simple answer is avoid menu 1.0 at all costs.  It's javascript-based and fails to meet any kind of accessibility standard: the browser doesn't treat it as a link which renders it pretty much unusable to anyone using a screenreader or keyboard-only input.  It also means you can't right-click and open in a new window/tab, which I find immensely annoying ;)

Finally it adds loads of unnecessary javascript given that much of the same functionality can be achieved using HTML and CSS - which I believe is what menu 2.0 uses.  Even then this approach to navigation is not necessarily good practice - links in pop-out boxes can be difficult to use by people with limited mobility and should also be made available in the main navigation on the page they sit under.  This is particularly important to make them accessible to screenreader and keyboard-only users.

We took the option not to use the menu at all and build our navigation from scratch - it's extra work, but is justified in our case as we have to match it to the navigation in our main CMS (not Netcommunity) which the bulk of our site is run on.