I want my developers to create an html drop down menu on my site. What methods are used to do this and which is best for search engines?

There are several methods to create an html drop down menu (also called a fly-out menu) on a site. The three main ways are:

• Flash menus
• javascript drop down menu
• CSS drop down menu

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When you look at web pages today, they are designed to look slick and cool. CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) have made this possible by giving designers the control to make fluid and organic designs. All html tags can be stylistically controlled and many of the original basic html tags may seem outdated. Who needs html H codes to make big font when you can do it with CSS? But, by looking at the history of html, we can understand why <H> tags are still important and why they should not be thought of as a graphical element.

The history of html tags
Let’s hop in our time machine and go back a few decades to 1989, the beginning of the history of html. This is the year that Tim Berners-Lee came up with the concept that would eventually become the Internet as we know it. What is important to note here is that he developed the Internet for a group of physicists so that they could share scientific papers. 
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When I do a search for my company in Google, the address shown is one of our satellite locations rather than our headquarters.  How do I fix this? 

Why Google universal search affects your company
Since Google has replaced traditional search with Google Universal Search (which is a mixture of tradition search, Google Local maps, video, images and music related to a search) many changes have occurred in Google’s search results pages. One of those changes is that Google now strives to show the address of a company along with the listing of a company in the Google Universal Search results. Occasionally, if a company has more than one location, this can result in the wrong local Google listing being identified as the main location for the company. This can cause confusion for your customers and visitors. This is something you need to fix.
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