Website Navigation Menu Toolbox
When designing a website, one of the most important elements is the navigation. Both in terms of usability and appearance, navigation menus typically will have a significant influence on the outcome of the design. In this post we’ll feature more than 60 tutorials, resources, and items of inspiration that can help in your own design and development work with navigation menus.
Tutorials for Creating Navigation Menus:
If you’re looking to improve your navigation menu or design one for a new site, this collection of tutorials will show you how to accomplish many different types of menus.
Sexy Drop Down Menu with jQuery and CSS
Create Vimeo-Like Top Navigation
Create Apple.com-Like Breadcrumb Using Simple CSS
Simple Scalable CSS Based Breadcrumbs
Pastel Color Menu with Dynamic Submenu Using CSS
CSS Sliding Door Using Only One Image
How to Create a CSS Menu Using Image Sprites
Create a Multilevel Dropdown Menu with CSS and Improve it with jQuery
Super Fantastic CSS Navigation Image Rollovers
CSS Navigation Rollovers with Drop-downs
Elegant Glass-Style Navigation Bar Using CSS and Toggle Animated Effect
Vertical CSS Menu with a “Behavior” File
Navigation Bar with Tabs Using CSS and Sliding Doors Effect
CSS Sprite Navigation Tutorial
How to Create a Slick and Clean Button in Photoshop
How to Create a Stunning Vista Inspired Menu
Tutorial: Stylish Black Buttons
Resources for Creating Navigation Menus:
These resources can be helpful for quickly creating a menu. Some provide the code for various menus, while others allow you to choose some details about the menu that you want, and then the code is generated for you.
Exploding Boy Sliding Doors Menus
Free Menu Designs from e-lusion.com
Inspirational Navigation Menus:
If you would like to design an improved navigation menu but you’re not sure which route to take, here is a collection of inspirational menus that should give you some ideas.
The Ernest Hemingway Collection
Articles on Usability and Best Practices for Navigation:
Navigation plays a large role in the usability of a website, so aesthetics should not be the only concern. These articles cover various topics related to the subject.
- Website Usability: Navigation Made Easy
- Breadcrumbs in Web Design: Examples and Best Practices
- The Dos and Don’ts of Website Navigation Usability
- Navigation Usability Can Make or Break Your Website
- Breadcrumb Navigation Increasingly Useful
For more designer toolboxes, please see:
- Website Layout Toolbox
- Typography Toolbox
- Design Inspiration Toolbox
- Photoshop Toolbox
- E-Commerce Web Design Toolbox
- Textures Toolbox
