Circular Webstyle Menu

Jul 12, 2015

In a recent teaching session, I saw web style popup menu that I liked the look of and showed the participants how I would build it and make it available on every slide.

After the session I had a play around and made it look better.

Screenshot

here is a demo http://elearninglaboratory.articulate-online.com/8281488099

Here is a the file https://www.dropbox.com/s/y2bb2dlaliilt5z/Circular%20Menu.story?dl=0You need the icons font for it to display correctly, but could just swap them out for wingdings.

The menu is on a slide master and is called by incrementing a variable.

49 Replies

Phil Mayor
Author

over 8 years ago09/09/15 at 7:47 pm (UTC)

Laura I am Glad you found a use for I felt the concept was too simple to post, so glad it helped you out.

sofi ola

over 8 years ago09/23/15 at 12:08 pm (UTC)

love it :) great work

over 8 years ago09/24/15 at 4:36 pm (UTC)

Hi Bola, it does use layers but a slide master layer so it can be used across all slides

Mauro Gaiotto

over 8 years ago09/25/15 at 10:51 am (UTC)

Hi Phil!
Great work, I really like the design. By the way, I've found that if you hover the cursor on the buttons and quickly move it outside and then back again, the spin does not complete properly.

I checked the .story file but could not find where you added the rotation...

Phil Mayor
Author

over 8 years ago09/25/15 at 10:56 am (UTC)

Hi Mauro I think the spin is in the states, the pause is probably breaking it

Mauro Gaiotto

over 8 years ago09/25/15 at 12:15 pm (UTC)

A simple clic on the "Hover" state didn't highlight the animation tab, that's why I could not see the spin animation. You can solve that issue by reducing the animation's length.

However, great use of the pause timeline trigger, never thought about it!

Alphonso Hendricks

over 8 years ago09/25/15 at 5:19 pm (UTC)

Thanks Phil and Parashuram.

I like the idea. It saves a lot of screen real estate instead of using the default Storyline menu for course navigation.

Gregg Wanciak

over 8 years ago09/29/15 at 10:31 pm (UTC)

So strange that the source file I downloaded from here has nothing added to any of the Slide Masters.

ETA: Disregard my previous. User error. The Slide Master does contain the menu items as stated. Dur.

Cindy Katz

over 8 years ago09/30/15 at 2:40 pm (UTC)

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Ryan DeWitt

over 8 years ago10/11/15 at 10:53 pm (UTC)

Nice job Phil, just came across this. I love the transparency on your shapes. pretty sweet.

Rachel Thewlis

over 8 years ago12/07/15 at 2:18 pm (UTC)

Hi, I Love this on the demo, however, due to restrictions where I work I cannot view/download the file on dropbox or google, are there any other methods available?... I would love to know how its done. I can dowload other files from here if they simply have a download button.

Rachel Thewlis

over 8 years ago12/08/15 at 1:49 pm (UTC)

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Michele Kong

8 years ago02/09/16 at 1:52 pm (UTC)

This is a great menu and I like the style of the font used here -- but there are hundreds of icon fonts. Could you be more specific - maybe even provide a link?

thanks

8 years ago02/09/16 at 1:58 pm (UTC)

I love this menu Parashuram. Could you tell me more about how you built it? -- Thanks

Phil Mayor
Author

8 years ago02/09/16 at 2:11 pm (UTC)

I used Solid Icons Font http://www.iconsolid.com

Victoria Sublette

8 years ago03/14/16 at 5:54 am (UTC)

I can't see any graphics on the slide master, Phil. Mine is all blank. I can't find the Menu pop up anywhere. :-(

Phil Mayor
Author

8 years ago03/14/16 at 7:32 am (UTC)

Hi Victoria it is on a layer on the slide master.

Ricky Fowler

8 years ago03/30/16 at 2:30 pm (UTC)

I really like your menu and have a question for you. How did you get rid of or hide all the borders?

Phil Mayor
Author

8 years ago03/30/16 at 2:39 pm (UTC)

I set the borders to white and transparent you should be able to save the player out.

8 years ago04/03/16 at 11:51 pm (UTC)

hmm still can't find it. I go to View/Slide Master and all of the slides are blank. I can see that there is a State for the red menu button, but just can't find the pop up images that come up with the black half circle background.

:-(

I guess I am totally lame.

Valentine REIN

8 years ago04/04/16 at 9:45 am (UTC)

I'm sorry I can't find where the black circle is..

I only have a trigger on Ellipse 1 ("Ajouter 1.00 vers Menu") but can't find the black ellipse where the different links are...

Thanks !

8 years ago04/04/16 at 9:56 am (UTC)

In Phil's instructions at the beginning of the post he says it is located on the slide master.

View > SlideMaster > Master layout

Phil Mayor
Author

8 years ago04/04/16 at 9:58 am (UTC)

Wendy has it!

On the slide master on the very top slide there is a layer which has everything on. I created and updated version last week here is a download and link

https://www.dropbox.com/s/73wtgchii9gruor/Circular%20Menu%202.story?dl=1

https://t.co/4ToaVI7zu9