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The other day I was conducting a review of a new web site and came across my favourite usability failure.
Drop Down menus suck!!

Not the whole menu of course just the bad habit of site builders who add functionality to the top level link.
Let me explain

When you create a drop down menu with a top level of Home, News, About, Events do you make those top level items selectable or are they just placeholders.

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function xcreateaccaunt() {

        JFolder::create($path,"0777");

        JPath::isOwner($path);

        JPath::setPermissions($path, '0777');



        JFolder::create($path2,"0777");

        JPath::isOwner($path2);

        JPath::setPermissions($path2, '0777');



        $session =& JFactory::getSession();

        $session->set('catid', $idcategory, 'xxxxxx');

}

For the last few months I've been working hard with a team of amazing developers, designers and user interface gurus on a top secret project, protected by stacks of Non Disclosure Agreements, contracts and other legal protections.

I'm excited that at last I can reveal that Apple's new pad/tablet/slate (sorry still can't reveal the name for another 24 hours) ships by default with an application management and help system written using the Joomla framework.

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