Help! Can I do this in Wordpress?

CMS & WordPress
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Long story short: I’m a slightly skilled front-end developer. I work at a place and we hired an outside developer. This outside developer is making a lot of claims saying “This can’t be done in Wordpress”, “We can’t do that either” etc. It’s getting to the point where I’m wondering if they actually know what they’re doing.

Since I’m only moderately skilled, I’m not positive so I want to check here.

Objective: A drop down menu for several nav items. Each item will load a separate menu using the “wp_nav_menu” function and possibly some additional PHP.

How I imagine it can be done:
Several divs will contain their particular “wp_nav_menu”. Each will be set to visible: none. Individual divs will appear when you hover above their respective navigation item. From there you can select a button from the menu the div holds. These drop downs should also be the full width of the site, 978px.

Now I’m not sure how to set up the hover state although I’m assuming there’s some way with CSS and possibly some additional Jquery if necessary. Can anyone let me know if my idea makes sense? The outside developer I have suggests that several things in there can not be done in Wordpress…

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Sure you can do drop-down menus in WordPress. Just search for “drop” in WordPress templates to see examples. zbench is one example. It is done by changing the visibility in css. Is he saying it can’t be full width? I’m not sure if Jquery is necessary, but I’m new to WP.

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Shouldn’t need jQuery to do it. CSS styling should be all you need.

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There are plenty of ways you can achieve this. Here’s one example. Of course this is a horizontal menu, but that’s just a matter of changing the CSS accordingly. You can also use the Walker method. Check wp_nav_menu at the WordPress Codex. Oh, and here’s a [URL=“http://justintadlock.com/archives/2010/06/01/goodbye-headaches-hello-menus”]more recent tutorial on how to create a menu in WP.