How to create a Sub-Menu like timesonline.co.uk ?

I'd definately go for horizontal menus -- they leave more space to the much more important page content.

Most well-written themes have menu functions called "primary links" and "secondary links", which could be a good solution. To use them, go to admin/build/menu, choose "settings" and select which menu you want to use as primary and secondary links.
There's a neat feature built into those -- if you use the same menu for both primary and secondary links, the "child items" of the primary links will show up in the secondary links. This effectively restricts the menu to a two-level system, but I recommend not having a deeper structure than that anyways.

To use this you don't need any extra modules -- the menu module is in core.

Good luck!
//Johan Falk, Sweden

We use a customized version of Dynamic Persistent Menu module (drupal.org/project/dynamic_persistent_menu) for our horizontal menu (www.straight.com)

Mansoor,

We use a customized function to create these section boxes. The function is then called from a Drupal block with each section box being a block placed on a Drupal panel so that it displays on the Homepage.

The function itself basically takes the parent taxonomy id - which is passed in from the function call - and uses that to do a mysql query to find the last 'x' nodes from that taxonomy as well as any child taxonomies.

This nodes are loaded and then the display of these is dictated by variables passed into the function: a show more link, whether we show taxonomy names, how many links will show whether we indicate there are comments and whether the first item has a thumbnail and a teaser.

That's the general idea of it anyway.

I hope that makes sense to you.

Geoff