Changing The Navigation Menu In Flexibility 3

Use the "Navigation position" option to place the navigation bar either above default or below the header.


The Navigation tab style can be used to choose from a wide variety of styles for your navigation buttons. Just look around until you find a style you like. Here's an example. This is called Indent.



This is where it gets interesting. With Flexibility 3, you can choose the color of the navigation bar as well as the color of the selected page and the color of the tab when you mouse over it.

Let's start by changing the background color. For this, we will use the Navigation tab color option.




Next is Navigation tab hover color or the color the navigation button turns when you hover the mouse over it.


Last but not least is the Navigation tab active color. This is what color the currently selected tab shows up as. As you can see, above the home page is the selected page and the sample page is being moused over.

You can play with these settings to make it easier for people to figure out where they are and where their going.

There are a number of other options you can play with in each of these categories but what I have explained in this tutorial should get you off to a great start. For a free theme, this one delivers more options than anything I have encountered but they also offer a paid version called, Flex Squeeze which the owner explained to me in an email. It is basically the same thing with a bucket load more options.

Thanks for reading. Please leave your comments below!


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williamhall Premium
Hi Ty, Thank you for your help. I found the button I needed to find to upload the file. With my vision impairment, the file was difficult to see and changing the colors and the size of the image finally brought it to light. But now I have a question on the flexibility 3 bile. I downloaded the folder flexibity3 but it is not a zip file. How do I find the zip file? Thanks for your help.
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Ty Johnson Premium
When you download flex 3 it comes in a zip file, don't try to open it or install it just upload the file directly to wordpress and it will do the rest for you.
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Shawn Martin Premium
Bookmarked, thanks Ty!
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Ty Johnson Premium
Your very welcome!
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Teacup108 Premium Plus
Thanks for the tutorial. I actually downloaded this theme and put it on a website that I am planning to build but have not had the time yet to figure out the the adjustments. You have saved me a ton of time. Now I just need to get my content together.
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Ty Johnson Premium
I'm glad to here it. I know I get people asking all the time about a good free theme and so far this is the only free one I have been really happy with. I also like it because the owner is helpful if you have questions or if something is acting up in the theme.
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anindochk Premium
A very flexible theme indeed. Header area had lots of variations.
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Ty Johnson Premium
yeah you can do all kinds of things with the header. I recently acquired Thesis theme and I am looking forward to using it. I want to see the difference between the two so I can do a review of the two and point out the advantages and disadvantages of both.
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anindochk Premium
Ty, I have a page line theme.The functionality is very powerful but the they have followed a structured approach to program the theme. The customizations are difficult to make in such a theme. Just a thought for you. I believe a theme that follows a default twenty eleven theme coding standards should be more helpful for starters who want to customize inch by inch with their codes.
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Ty Johnson Premium
I try to stay away from having to coding as much as possible. To me coding is slow and tedious work and it's time that could be better spent doing something else like creating new content.
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yessharon Premium Plus
I do like this theme and I was thinking about using it last week. Thanks for showing us how to work with it.
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Ty Johnson Premium
You're welcome. It does have many more options that is shown in this tutorial but I think I hit all of the major stuff. Let me know if you have questions about anything
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