20 Of The Best CSS Navigation Menu Techniques

One of the most important features of your website will be the navigation menu, not only do you want the menu to look good but it must be functional and instinctive to use. If your visitors cannot navigate your site easily and instinctively traffic and return visits will suffer, it can be a fine balance between usability and good navigation menu design. In this post we have listed 20 usable examples from which you can hopefully gather some inspiration from, all the menus come with tutorials and code snippets which can easily be edited to suit your own needs.

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19 Comments Already

Web Crawler Said,

July 3rd, 2008 @9:06 am

This is a superb collection of CSS navigation menus. Dynamic drive has quite a big collection of them. Thanks mate.

LincolnHawks Said,

July 3rd, 2008 @10:24 am

yeah dynamicdrive has a vast collection but you can never have too many representations for inspiration right? The only scenerio i have is what type to choose for projects as there are so many really nice looking menu’s around.

jbj Said,

July 3rd, 2008 @1:58 pm

Great list, thanks for sharing. Maybe you shoukd add this menu to the list?

United Voices Said,

July 5th, 2008 @2:54 pm

CSS is a great to build a great site. I certainly like these sites build using CSS.

Robert Said,

July 8th, 2008 @5:20 am

Seems every commercial asp and css menu site has removed any posts for this project. See what you think.

http://rwstewart.blogspot.com/

ASP css database List menu. Tested in IE6, IE7 and Firefox OK.

Check it out and respond to my blog if problems.
Has single click editing of menu items, iframe masks over objects, SQL server and access databases supplied and ready to test.