// set up drop downs anywhere in the body of the page. I think the bottom of the page is better.. 
	// but you can experiment with effect on loadtime.
	if (TransMenu.isSupported()) {

		//==================================================================================================
		// create a set of dropdowns
		//==================================================================================================
		// the first param should always be down, as it is here
		//
		// The second and third param are the top and left offset positions of the menus from their actuators
		// respectively. To make a menu appear a little to the left and bottom of an actuator, you could use
		// something like -5, 5
		//
		// The last parameter can be .topLeft, .bottomLeft, .topRight, or .bottomRight to inidicate the corner
		// of the actuator from which to measure the offset positions above. Here we are saying we want the 
		// menu to appear directly below the bottom left corner of the actuator
		//==================================================================================================
		var ms = new TransMenuSet(TransMenu.direction.down, 14, 0, TransMenu.reference.bottomLeft);

		//==================================================================================================
		// create a dropdown menu
		//==================================================================================================
		// the first parameter should be the HTML element which will act actuator for the menu
		//==================================================================================================
		//var menu1 = ms.addMenu(document.getElementById("first"));
		//menu1.addItem("Item1", ""); // send no URL if nothing should happen onclick
		//menu1.addItem("Item2", ""); 
		//menu1.addItem("Item3", ""); 		

		//==================================================================================================

		//==================================================================================================
		var menu2 = ms.addMenu(document.getElementById("second"));
		menu2.addItem("Lectures", "/calendar/lectures.shtml?tab1");
		menu2.addItem("Classes", "/classes/schedule.shtml?tab2");
		menu2.addItem("Exhibitions", "/calendar/exhibitions.shtml?tab3");
		menu2.addItem("Films", "/calendar/films.shtml?tab4");
		menu2.addItem("Special Events", "/calendar/special_events.shtml?tab5");
		// menu2.addItem("Past Events", "/calendar/pastevents.shtml");

		//==================================================================================================

		//==================================================================================================
		var menu3 = ms.addMenu(document.getElementById("third"));
		menu3.addItem("Schedule of Classes", "/classes/schedule.shtml");
		menu3.addItem("Syllabi for All Classes at the Institute", "/syllabi/");
		// menu3.addItem("Enroll", "http://www.westernciv.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PLST&Store_Code=IS");
		menu3.addItem("Required Texts", "/requiredtexts/");
		menu3.addItem("Chronologies", "/chronologies/chron.shtml");		
		menu3.addItem("Educational Development", "/classes/development.shtml");	
		menu3.addItem("Language Classes", "/classes/languages.shtml");	

		//==================================================================================================

		//==================================================================================================
		var menu4 = ms.addMenu(document.getElementById("fourth"));
		menu4.addItem("Library Catalog", "");
		menu4.addItem("Slides", "");
		// menu4.addItem("Item3", "");

		//==================================================================================================

		//==================================================================================================
		var menu5 = ms.addMenu(document.getElementById("fifth"));
		menu5.addItem("Abelard - Caravaggio", "");
		menu5.addItem("Columbus - Gericault", "");	
		menu5.addItem("Homer - Michelangelo", "");	
		menu5.addItem("Napoleon - Rembrandt", "");	
		menu5.addItem("Rousseau - Virgil", "");	

		var submenu1 = menu5.addMenu(menu5.items[0]);
		submenu1.addItem("Abelard", "");
		submenu1.addItem("Augustine", "");
		submenu1.addItem("Boccaccio", "");		
		submenu1.addItem("Byron", "");	
		submenu1.addItem("Caesar", "");	
		submenu1.addItem("Caravaggio", "");	
		
		var submenu2 = menu5.addMenu(menu5.items[1]);
		submenu2.addItem("Columbus", "");	
		submenu2.addItem("Dante", "");	
		submenu2.addItem("Dostoevsky", "");	
		submenu2.addItem("Galileo", "");	
		submenu2.addItem("Gericault", "");	
		
		var submenu3 = menu5.addMenu(menu5.items[2]);
		submenu3.addItem("Homer", "");	
		submenu3.addItem("Luther", "");	
		submenu3.addItem("Machiavelli", "");	
		submenu3.addItem("Masaccio", "");	
		submenu3.addItem("Michelangelo", "");	
		
		var submenu4 = menu5.addMenu(menu5.items[3]);	
		submenu4.addItem("Napoleon", "");	
		submenu4.addItem("Petrarch", "");	
		submenu4.addItem("Pico", "");	
		submenu4.addItem("Raphael", "");	
		submenu4.addItem("Rembrandt", "");	
		
		var submenu5 = menu5.addMenu(menu5.items[4]);	
		submenu5.addItem("Rousseau", "");	
		submenu5.addItem("Sophocles", "");	
		submenu5.addItem("Stendhal", "");	
		submenu5.addItem("Vermeer", "");	
		submenu5.addItem("Virgil", "");					
		//==================================================================================================

		//==================================================================================================
		var menu6 = ms.addMenu(document.getElementById("sixth"));
		menu6.addItem("Enroll", "");
		//menu6.addItem("Item2", "");
		//menu6.addItem("Item3", "");
		
		//==================================================================================================

		//==================================================================================================
		// write drop downs into page
		//==================================================================================================
		// this method writes all the HTML for the menus into the page with document.write(). It must be
		// called within the body of the HTML page.
		//==================================================================================================
		TransMenu.renderAll();
	}