Add WordPress Menu Description

So I have been thinking about a blog redesign for a little while. I am not really happy with the current design so I have been keeping my eye on things that I like and how I can incorporate it into my design.

One of the things that has been catching my eye was the descriptive text in the WordPress menus of some sites. Some examples can be see in WooThemes in both the free BlogTheme and the commercial offering f0101 & Busy Bee. I also noticed Grid Focus a free WordPress theme that has the effect that I was looking for. The biggest thing that I noticed was they rewrote the wp_page_menu() function. Some of them rewrote the dynamic classes but missed a few(WooThemes). I knew there had to be a better way so I kept searching. I ran across ThemeShaper and the post WordPress Menu Tricks and it looks like John Kristian took this a giant step further to include options to add categories and drop down menus and more flexibility with his post A Smarter Menu for WordPress BUT these solutions required an additional function to be added to the WordPress template.

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How to assign css to a specific menu item in Joomla 1.5

If your building sites for clients you need to stress the dynamic nature of Joomla from the onset of the project. Be sure they understand that the look, for the most part will carry through the entire site with very few exceptions.

Recently, I had the opportunity to do a full site conversion. They would like the exact look of the site to be transferred over to Joomla. This includes images for menu items, and specific images on each content item. Clearly this was not the intent of Joomla, but they had their reasons.

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