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==== Overview  ====

CustomMenu enhances the Web browser significantly. It is an easier and faster way to navigate the
Internet. You can get the web site you are looking for by just one point-and-click on the menu.
The CustomMenu is capable of inserting some extra menus to IE browsers menu bar, managing and 
displaying a URL collection as menus from a Web page. The menus dynamically integrate and work
 with the IE browser seamlessly, they are able to be replaced by another URL collection if the
user select another Web page with CustomMenu feature, or be removed if the user navigates a URL
 in a different way (typing URL on Address or selecting from the Favorites). 

CustomMenu can be used as an extension of IE Favorites or a unique and powerful method to display
URL collection in a Web page. It provides an excellent Internet links collection, and greatly
expands on the functionality of your IE Favorites menu. It is a very efficient and useful software
for both personal users and Web developers.

For Personal Users                                                                                 

CustomMenu provides a collection of  1000+ popular URLs and shows the URLs on the MS IEs menu bar
 as drop-down menus. The URL collection is classified in ten categories, including business/ money,
news, living, education, sports, shopping, etc. By just one point-and-click on the menu, it will get 
you to the Web site you are looking for right away. It saves you a lot of  time from typing URLs or
searching for URLs and then clicking back and forth. CustomMenu provides a URL collection template 
for users to add  more URLs and show collections as menus. Beside the URL collection stated above,
 which are installed in your PC and can be edited, CustomMenu provides more hot Web site collections 
on special topics: women, kids and money from the Web. With CustomMenu technology, CustomMenu 
EZ-Shopping provides an efficient approach for you to go shopping in Amazon, eToys, Reel, and CDNow.
 On clicking the store button on the home page, the menu on the menu bar is replaced by other menus 
which are the catalogs of the store. Therefore, you are able to shop the store and select the items 
from the menu also. It is very easy to switch among the different web site collections and  the web
 stores for the EZ-Shopping by clicking and selecting the menu item of  "CM" on the menu. An edit 
tool - CMEditor is available for editing the URL collections very easily. CMEditor can be accessed
 by clicking the Start button, and then clicking Programs\CustomMenu\CMEditor menu. The URL collection
 is common for both Netscape and IE*. As long as you install CustomMenu for both Netscape and IE, 
you may use the same URL collection for either Netscape or IE. You'll be amazed at the wonderful
 results of  the maximum screen view plus high efficient URL collection menus on the menu bar when 
you use CustomMenu in IE full screen model, After installation, you may start CustomMenu from a desktop
 icon, Start menu or MS IE Favorites. 
 
For Web Developers                                                                             

CustomMenu plug-in, the core of the software, is a very powerful component to build your Web page. 
It provides the capability of managing and displaying collections of a large number of  URLs as menus from 
a Web page. Users can navigate URL directly from the browser's menu bar, instead of digging in on Web pages 
more than once. It saves more valuable space on  your Web page for other information or banners instead of
URL index. CustomMenu is a very useful component to build commercial sites such as an Internet mall, 
bookstore and etc.  


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==== System requirement  ====

MS Window95/NT 

MS IE 3.0 and above


===== Software Edition and Price  ====

Freeware Edition
Free, with basic functionality.  

Standard Edition
$19.95, with full functionality to manage and create your own URL collections. The license is for a
 single person to use CustomMenu to create and employ Web site collection only for local PC.  

Professional Edition
$280.00, end user license to use the CustomMenu feature to build web pages for the Internet or Intranet publication. 

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==== Software Installation ====

1. Double click on the cmpdemoN.exe for Netscape or
   cmpdemoE.exe for MS IE in the zip file.

2. Follow the instruction and answer the question prompted. the software will install automatically


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