10 CSS Navigation Menus : 26th March 2008



Creating navigation with CSS is one of the most crucial elements of website design. Get the navigation right, and people will feel welcomed and at home. Get it wrong, and it can spell trouble for your website. This is a great collection of 10 CSS navigation examples and tutorials to get you in the creative mood.

1. CSS Fancy Menu

CSS Fancy Menu

This article gos through the creation of a custom navigation bar with some cute Javascript effects that will certainly impress your friends. Thanks to the great Mootools library, this beauty is contained in 1.5kb. Not only that, but it’s also cross browser (tested on Internet Explorer 6/7, Firefox and Safari) and accessible!

2. cssMenus

cssMenus

This navigation menu works both vertically and horizontally, being fully compatible with all browsers.

3. Advanced CSS Menu

Advanced CSS Menu

This tutorial I will show you how to slice up the menu design (step by step) and put them together with CSS. Most of you probably know how to code a horizontal or vertical CSS list menu. Now let’s take it to the next level – code an advanced (un-typical) list menu utilizing the CSS position property.

4. Taming CSS Lists

Taming CSS Lists

In this article, I’ll demonstrate how to use CSS to bring unwieldy lists under control. It’s time for you to tell lists how to behave, instead of letting them run wild on your web page. Specific attention is paid to using a list as a vertical CSS menu.

5. Mini Tabs

CSS Tabs

I came up with these little “mini tabs” for navigation while working on a few projects. They’ll probably appear in the real world eventually. They are generated with pure CSS of course, and require no images.

6. Inverted Sliding Doors Tabs

Inverted Sliding Doors Tabs

This is an explanation of how I adapted Doug Bowman’s Sliding Doors technique to work with inverted tabs for a recent redesign of netrelations.se.

7. A collection of free CSS menus

8. A simple gradient CSS menu

9. A walk-through of different CSS navigation techniques

10. Mini sliding navigation




Comments and Discussion


On 26th March 2008 , Simon said:

Great article, point 11) is missing, www.IzzyMenu.com - Free CSS Menu Builder :)

On 27th March 2008 , Alessandro said:

Great article. View my menu! It's the point 1!! :)

On 1st April 2008 , Tauranga web designer said:

Excellent Post~ This is exactly what i was looking for. Thanks mate.

On 11th April 2008 , Sharing Best Practices! said:

I love number 3, its kinda unique. Thanks for sharing.

On 15th April 2008 , Web Design Lincolnshire said:

Nice post, thanks for sharing.

On 20th April 2008 , B12 said:

Thank you :-)

On 7th May 2008 , Mike said:

Great - especially like number 1.



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