Creating fly-out menus for website in InDesign CS5

Hi all, I've just upgraded to CS5, and am looking into the new release of InDesign CS5. In the past, I had created websites in MS Publisher, and then exported the publication as website as html. I then uploaded the resulting HTML to my website using Cute FTP.
I dabbled around with Adobe Contribute, and still found it rather restrictive, as I could not create coloured text boxes, text frames, roll-over buttons and etc.
Hoping that I'll have better luck with InDesign CS5. I'm intending to create my website from scratch, and when finished, hope I can export the publication in InDesign as HTML.
Just wondering if there is a feature in InDesign CS5 that can create drop down or fly-out menus for a website?
Thanks

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