if (mtDropDown.isSupported()) {
		var ms = new mtDropDownSet(mtDropDown.direction.down, -17, 18, mtDropDown.reference.bottomLeft);
		var menu1 = ms.addMenu(document.getElementById("menu1"));
		
		menu1.addItem("  College Facilities","facilities.php");
		menu1.addItem("  Prospectus","download_prospectus.php");
		menu1.addItem("  About TIUC","about_tiuc.php");
		
		var menu2 = ms.addMenu(document.getElementById("menu2"));
		menu2.addItem("  Vacancies","vacancies.php");



		/*var menu2 = ms.addMenu(document.getElementById("menu2"));
		menu2.addItem("Agronomy/ Soil Science ","ghana_cocoa_soil_science.html");
		menu2.addItem("Entomology ","cocoa_research_institute_entomology.html");
		menu2.addItem("Plant Breeding ","cocoa_research_institute_plant_breeding.html");
		menu2.addItem("Plant Pathology ","cocoa_research_institute_plant_pathology.html");
		menu2.addItem("Physiology/ Biochemistry Divisions ","cocoa_research_institute_biochemistry.html");
		menu2.addItem("Social Science and Statistics ","crig_social_science_statistics.html");
		menu2.addItem("New Products Development Units ","crig_new_products_unit.html");


		var menu3 = ms.addMenu(document.getElementById("menu3"));
		menu3.addItem("Coffee ","cocoa_other_research_area.html");
		menu3.addItem("Kola ","cocoa_other_research_area.html");
		menu3.addItem("Cashew ","cocoa_other_research_area.html");
		menu3.addItem("Sheanut ","cocoa_other_research_area.html");
		menu3.addItem("Pentadesma ","cocoa_other_research_area.html");
		menu3.addItem("Allanblackia ","cocoa_other_research_area.html");*/

	
		/*var menu4 = ms.addMenu(document.getElementById("menu4"));
		menu4.addItem("Products from Cocoa Pod Husks (CPH) ", "#");
		menu4.addItem("Products from Cocoa Pulp Juice (Sweatings) ", "#");
		menu4.addItem("Cocoa Alcohol ", "#");
		menu4.addItem("Products from Cocoa Beans ", "#");*/
		
				
		/*var menu5 = ms.addMenu(document.getElementById("menu5"));
		menu5.addItem("CRIG Newsletter ", "crig_news_letter.html");
		menu5.addItem("CRIG Strategic Plan ", "crig_strategic_plan.html");*/

		//==================================================================================================
		// add a sub-menu
		//==================================================================================================
		// to add a sub menu to an existing menu object, call it's addMenu method and pass it the item from
		// the parent menu which should act as it's actuator. To add a submenu to the fourth item of a menu
		// called "theMenu", you would do theMenu.addMenu(theMenu.items[3])
		//==================================================================================================
	
			
	
		//==================================================================================================
		// 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.
		//==================================================================================================
		mtDropDown.renderAll();
	}