SkyTechGeek explored numerous design sites and collected 21 beautiful high quality PSD files, so that users don’t need to explore hundred of Google Pages to find out an appropriate PSD file for their design, Designers and Web developers can use them in their upcoming projects and can give their websites stunning and beautiful look.

1. Simple Navigation Menu

2. Modern Menu & GUI Elements PSD

3. Slick Horizontal Menu

4. Breadcrumb Navigation

5. Menu Notification Badges

6. Mini Drop-Down Menu

7. Clean Crisp Setting Menu

8. Dark Navigation Menu

9. Candy Coated Red Navigation

10. Navigation Menu Horrido

11. Birds Sign, Grass and Shit Navigation

12. Sci Fi Menu

13. Pixel Navigation

14. Elegant Ribbon Menu

15. Header Navigation Pack

16. Grunge Gothic Navigation

17. Simple Navigation Menu

18. Mega Menu Navigation

19. Fresh Drop Down Menu Pack

20. Pixel Daily

21. Vivid Navigation Bar

Mozilla Firefox

Oracle

Apple

Roxio

Real Mac Software

gOSSkype

Loop Insight

In this article, we’d like to show you some of the best drop-down menu scripts we come to know. These drop-down menu varies from CSS only, CSS & Javascripts and menu that will work with your current Javascript library like jQuery, MooTools and Prototype. Full list after jump.

CSS (Only)

If you are worried about Javascript disabled on client’s browser, these css-only drop down menu will not fail you.

Ultimate CSS only drop-down menu

CSS Express Drop-Down Menus
Help you produce a quick (express) CSS drop-down menu without some of the limitations found in some other “pure” CSS menus.

CSS + Javascripts

With the help of Javascript, drop down menu are more interactive or at least they get some subtle animation that enhance user experience. CSS on the other hand, make sure the look and feel is easily cuztomizable.

Professional dropdown

Drop Down Tabs (5 styles)
Drop Down Tabs is a horizontal CSS tabs menu that supports a second level drop down menu for each of its tabs. Comes in 5 different styles.jQuerys

If you’ve implemented jQuery Javascript Library on your site, here are some really cool jQuery based drop down menus you should know.

Dropdown, iPod Drilldown, and Flyout styles with ARIA Support and ThemeRoller Ready
Menu system, which can be used to create a simple dropdown menu for a single list of options, a flyout menu for a smaller hierarchical list of options.

Mega Drop-Down Menu
A drop down menu that holds more than just new line of links. It also makes group links and make nagivation much easier!

(mb)Menu
Powerful jQuery component to build easily a multilevel tree menu or a contextual menu (right click) in an intuitive way.

MenuMatic
MenuMatic takes a sematic ordered or unordered list of links and uses MooTools 1.2 to turn it into a dynamic drop down menu system, with enhanced usability and flair.

Unobstrusive Mootool Drop Down Menu

Scriptaculous/Prototype

Dropdown Menu
Based on Knallgrau Unordered list. Here’s more similar drop down menu – Horizontal dropdown menu, e24TabMenu.

White menu – horizontal menu with black website

White menu – round corner menu with blue website

White menu – vertical menu with green website

White menu – tab menu with yellow website

White menu – multi-column menu with purple website

Superfish

jQuery SuckerFish Style

Smooth Navigational Menu

Animated Drop Down Menu with jQuery

droppy

Simple Drop Down Menu for jQuery

UvumiTools Dropdown Menu

MooTools Drop Down Menu

MenuMatic

Drop-Down Menu with jQuery

Simple CSS vertical menu Digg-like

Drop Down Tabs

JavaScript Dropdown Menu with Multi Levels

jQuery Multi Level CSS Menu #1

In this collection are many different types of drop-down menus used in websites all over the web for your navigation design inspiration.

Here are some related collections regarding site navigation that you may also be interested in:

Carreras Con Futuro

This drop-down menu’s design embodies the hand-drawn theme of the website.

Converse

Converse has a grunge-styled drop-down menu that has a cloth-like texture with frizzy edges.

Bern

This rough grunge style website has an edgy drop-down menu that complement the look-and-feel of the website’s general aesthetics.

Ski Alpine

This drop-down menu highlights the attention to detail that the site designer has.

Noizi Kidz

This navigation is bright and shaped unconventionally.

Famous Cookies

This drop-down navigation menu showcases the yummy cookies that the store makes available to its hungry patrons.

Boden

Each menu item has a different font and the drop-down menu is very clean.

Navigant Consulting

The colours used on this site work together like players of a football team.

Fall For Tennessee

Fall for Tennessee has a horizontal drop-down menu that slides out to the right hand side. The menu items that have a drop-down submenu have a small arrow next to them to indicate that they can be expanded.

Mozilla

This is a simple yet sleek drop-down menu on the Mozilla.

• Nopokographics8
  Vertical navigation menus are used very rarely, for the simple reason: they are harder to use. However, some designers risk unusual approaches. Nopoko Graphics uses an arrow and a hover-effect for its vertical navigation menu.

  

• Cosmicsoda10
  This large and colorful menu is very noticeable and uses a slight hover effect to further define the menu items.

  

• Clearleft14
  Clearleft uses a couple of paper pieces for its navigation.

  

• Water’s Edge Media19
  Patricia Abbott uses clothespins for the navigation options.

  

• Jeff Sarmiento24
  Why not try a sloping navigation options once in a while?

  

• Mac Rabbit
  One more example of a large and clean menu. This one uses icons to aid the reader in recognizing each item’s function.

  

• DFW UPA34
  Icons reinforce the menu items on this website and add emphasis to each option.

  

• Duarte Pires36
  This menu is located close to the content, where it is easy to use. It uses large icons, which adds a visual element to the navigation. Also, the menu on other pages uses the same icons in a vertical layout, bringing consistency to the website. The icons may not fit perfectly, but it’s a nice idea.

  

• Eric Johansson42
  Eric Johansson, a designer from Sweden, uses tall vertical blocks and images for his navigation.

  

• Bern45
  I am a big fan of this navigation layout. I like how the menu fits in with the grunge theme. It also uses another jQuery drop-down effect.

  

The article is from smashingmagazine.com.

Whenever I think of what is the most important task a web designer could do, I always end up thinking that it should be the creation of good navigation. It must be well-designed in a user-friendly manner that the moment the viewer sees it, they instantly understand how it is used and what is it for. A navigation must also be creatively done, it is one of the elements you can find on a website where you can capture a viewer’s attention.

What’s kind of menus is good for web navigation?

The less click, the better.

Viewers tend to be impatient when searching for information; they want to seek what they are searching very quickly. Make sure that your navigation responds as quickly as possible to your viewers’ instincts.

Horizontal Navigation Menu

Horizontal navigation is the widely used navigation of web designers today. Usually, the navigation bar is placed right under the header.

Good Characteristics:
1. It occupies less space
Horizontal navigation is mostly used by web designers for it occupies less space, because it is placed at the top part of the website. Then, the rest of the spaces you can use for your content.

2. More noticeable
Our eyes first notice elements of the website that are placed on the center, that is why horizontal menus are more noticeable since they are placed on the top and center part of the website.

3. Easier to use
Viewers find horizontal navigation easier to use. Comparing it to vertical navigation, you still have to move your mouse pointer on the left part of the screen (or sometimes right) to click the menus. If the navigation is horizontally placed, you just have to move your pointer upward to click a menu button.

4. Viewers are already used to it
Since it is the mostly used navigation, viewers always expect that all websites have this type of navigation.

Bad Characteristics:

1. Limited space for your menus
When using horizontal navigation, you are limited on the width space of your website and this still depends on the layout of your website.

2. Can only be used if number of menus are already known
Horizontal navigation can only be used if the number of your menus is already fixed, because the size and design depends on the number of menus to be placed.

View Horizontal Navigation Menu Samples for Inspiration:

Yes, it’s true: navigation dropdown menus easy to use. The recent study declines that large and two-dimensional menus enable to avoid scrolling and precision, explain the options the user with the effective use of typography, icons and tooltips.

These panels appear for a short time and disappear when users mouse over another option or a normal screen.

In this article we take a closer look at the nature of the navigation menu to situations in which they may or may not have to be used to analyze, discuss various implementations, and finally some good and bad examples of menus to see, for example. The article also includes some tips and suggestions to help you to work with menus.

Position to Use Navigation Menus.

You are used to view many trends in the drop-down menus. The most common ones are here:

Arrange the pages section

Most frequently, navigation menus used to draw all the pages in a specific category in an organized element. These are essentially sub-navigation. See the picture below. A drop-down element contains all the different categories for a specific area of the site.

Organize categories in a Blog

You see many blogs which use a menu to organize the categories and labels. Why? Blogs includes a great amount of information supplied, so that the design must maintain as clean as possible to this content. A menu will ultimately helps together links, such as classes, design elements, how to collect the sidebar.

View products on electronic commerce Website

Many menus on e-commerce websites are used for showing products or groups. The menu is a positive feature that can find the clients; it is an ideal way to organize products. The Best Buy Web site, see below.

Show Modules
A drop-down may be the best way to tuck away obstructive menu, which the user can click on to reveal. View the example below, logging in the element is part of the navigation will appear as a drop-down list. It is a good way to achieve this important element of the rule without any negative impact on usability.

Using jQuery for Background Image Animations

 Sliding JavaScript Menu Highlight

Fisheye JavaScript Menu

MenuMatic

Simple Drop-Down Menu

Eyecatchy javasript navigation menu

JavaScript sliding menu