Just to add to the mix, I "borrowed" some Drupal mods and used this thread to create a pretty easy skin, which seems to work fairly well. I call the skin "4x4" (just cuz). If it helps, great! You can see it working @ http://grafiks101.com/dev/?theme=Four-by-Four
I did turn set autoArrows : true and dropShadows : true in thematic-dropdowns.js which is explained somewhere around here...
/*** 4x4 SKIN ***/
.sf-menu {
background-color: #BDD2FF; /* main bar color without image */
background-image: url('./images/root.jpg');
background-position: bottom left;
background-repeat: repeat-x;
float: left;
width: 100%;
border-radius: 2px;
-webkit-border-radius: 2px;
margin-left: 1px;
}
.sf-menu a {
border-right: 1px solid #FFFFFF; /* divider main bar */
padding: .75em 1em;
text-decoration:none;
border-left: 0px;
border-top: 0px;
border-bottom: 0px;
}
.sf-menu a, .sf-menu a:visited { /* visited pseudo selector so IE6 applies text colour*/
color: #1133AA;
}
.sf-menu li:hover, .sf-menu li.sfHover,
.sf-menu a:focus, .sf-menu a:hover, .sf-menu a:active { /* all items when hovering */
background: #CFDEFF;
outline: 0;
}
.sf-menu ul a:hover { /* link color when hovering */
background: #E4DFFF;
color: #0B0FFF;
border-bottom-color: #EEEEEE;
}
.sf-menu ul a {
background: #BDD2FF;
border-top: 1px solid #EEEEEE;
border-bottom:none;
border-right: none;
}
/*** arrows **/
.sf-menu a.sf-with-ul {
padding-right: 2.25em;
min-width: 1px; /* trigger IE7 hasLayout so spans position accurately */
}
.sf-sub-indicator {
position: absolute;
display: block;
right: .75em;
top: 1.05em; /* IE6 only */
width: 10px;
height: 10px;
text-indent: -999em;
overflow: hidden;
background: url('./images/arrows-ffffff.png') no-repeat -10px -100px; /* 8-bit indexed alpha png. IE6 gets solid image only */
}
a > .sf-sub-indicator { /* give all except IE6 the correct values */
top: .8em;
background-position: 0 -100px; /* use translucent arrow for modern browsers*/
}
/* apply hovers to modern browsers */
a:focus > .sf-sub-indicator, a:hover > .sf-sub-indicator, a:active > .sf-sub-indicator, li:hover > a > .sf-sub-indicator, li.sfHover > a > .sf-sub-indicator {
background-position: -10px -100px; /* arrow hovers for modern browsers*/
}
/* point right for anchors in subs */
.sf-menu ul .sf-sub-indicator {
background-position: -10px 0;
}
.sf-menu ul a > .sf-sub-indicator {
background-position: 0 0;
}
/* apply hovers to modern browsers */
.sf-menu ul a:focus > .sf-sub-indicator, .sf-menu ul a:hover > .sf-sub-indicator, .sf-menu ul a:active > .sf-sub-indicator, .sf-menu ul li:hover > a > .sf-sub-indicator, .sf-menu ul li.sfHover > a > .sf-sub-indicator {
background-position: -10px 0; /* arrow hovers for modern browsers*/
}
/*** shadows for all but IE6 ***/
.sf-shadow ul {
background: url('./images/shadow.png') no-repeat bottom right;
padding: 0 8px 9px 0;
}
.sf-shadow ul.sf-shadow-off {
background: transparent;
}
You can grab the (background and arrows) images from my site. I think I found this stuff @ http://users.tpg.com.au/j_birch/plugins/superfish/
P.S. Hope the Drupal thing doesn't offend anyone. ;)