Hot Flashes Menu combines slideshow of images with Joomla menu. Hard to believe that living animations like this, it is possible to make in our days thanks to HTML, CSS, JavaScript. We named the module "Flashes" (although not done using Abode Flash) because it looks like Flash animation. Remember, you dont need a Flash plugin to run it. This module works fine on devices that dont support Flash (e.g. iPhone and iPad).
To use such an interesting element on your site, you need to prepare images that will be used for slideshow and Joomla menu. To create a Joomla menu, go to the menu Manager and create a new one. Then create a few paragraphs and subparagraphs of the menu.
We will not analyze in detail Joomla menu and menu items, so make sure you know what it means or refer to the documentation of Joomla: http://docs.joomla.org/Menu
Each menu item of the first level has an image for a slide show.
These images should have names like bg1.jpg, bg2.jpg, bg3.jpg, etc. the menu Items of the first level are shown in the form of a number of elements covered by the images. Slide show divided into several equivalent parts. The number of parts is determined by the number published on the first level of menu items.
Menu items from the second level shown above their parent menu items of the first level. Active menu item is selected by default and shows his descendants. When the user moves the mouse over another menu item (first level) starts the animation of the slide show and shows the image for the selected menu item. The menu items of the second level also have a background image. This is a PNG image (can be transparent) and their names should be like sub1.png, sub2.png, sub3.png, and so on.