The menu creation page allows you to configure all of the settings for your new menu. The options you see here can be changed later via the menu settings when you are editing your menu. Settings for the most part can be left at their default values and the menu will function the way most expect. Most of the options are for those who would like to really configure their menu.
Click on the Create Menu link in the admin menu at the top of the page, this will take you to the menu creation page.
Next begin to fill out the fields appropriately.
Menu Title: The text title that will show up at the top of the menu. You should always provide a title for your menu, altough it is not a required field, so you can distinguish it from other menus.
Menu Spacer: This value is a numeric value which represents the number of extra spaces the menu will add automatically to each nested level of the menu. The menu will always start with 0 space at the first level of the menu. (ie. a value of 2 for the menu spacer will put 2 spaces on the first nest of the menu and 4 spaces for the second nest)
Template: The template for the menu is just there to give the ability for someone to highly configure their menu. For most this option will just stay at default unless you really know what you are doing.
If you would like more information on templating please see the TEMPLATE.txt doc in the docs directory for the Menu Manager. The image map checkbox is there for furthur templating configuration.
Allow View: The allow view option allows you to choose which modules must be active in order for the menu appear. You can select one module or multiple modules. The default is to select all of the modules so if none are selected then the menu will be visable for all of the modules currently installed. If a module is installed after the menu is created, and you want the menu to show up for the module, you will have to come and select it under the menu settings.
Default Theme Variable: This allows you to choose where the menu will defaultly show up on the page after it is created. This is the only time you can set this option within the menu manager. After it is set it can be changed via the layout modules box move option. The values for this option are pretty self-explanitory, it will show up exactly where it says.
Menu Indent: The menu indent can be one of two things a character or an image. If the radio button is selected for a character then the menu manager will use the character selected from the dropdown box before every link in the menu. Also if an activity color is set for that character then the character will turn that color when the link it shows up before is the link that was just clicked. If the radio button is selected for an image then the images choosen will show up before each link. Depending on the activity of the link. The images found in the dropbox here can be uploaded via the image manager.