There are 2 types of navigation menu:- horizontal or vertical navigation menu. Horizontal menu has became the mainstream in web design, probably due to the space limitations. This is true especially for blogs or content related websites. Although they may have vertical navigation menu at sidebar, but the primary navigation will be the horizontal menu.

We have a showcase article for navigation menu before, but we would like to focus on some tips, tricks, tutorials and some showcases of horizontal navigation menus here.

Location Of Your Navigation Menu

Let’s start with the location of your navigation menu. Where should you place your menu? There are 3 places where you can place it:-

Top of the page, above the logo or banner.
Beside your logo or banner.
Below the logo or banner.

Example: Artificial Studio

The navigation menu sits on top of the logo and content. They also use different color to represent different links and destinations.

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45 Inspiring Navigation Menus That You Must See

October 29th, 2009 in Insipiration, Web Design | View Comments

Navigation menu is the most important element in the web design. It guides users to your content and also shows them your site structure. A well-designed and user friendly navigation menu will definitely attract more users to click and browse your content.

Designing a navigation menu is not easy. The designer needs to understand the site structure before start. Furthermore, designer needs to make sure the navigation menu can cope for future needs. One of the example is the number of elements in the menu increase in future.

In this article, you will see 45 inspiring, user-friendly and well-designed navigation menus. Although they may not necessary suit your design, but we hope these navigation menus can bring inspiration to our readers.

Matt Dempsey