The simplest, the best. So does the drop down menu. We find some classic navigation bar currently, which they are so simple to navigate the website, and many web designers would like to apply such that JavaScript menu to their webiste, let’s view them:
Float Menu is a web menu used for site navigation, which locates in a fixed position on the webpage. This float menu enables to scroll along scroll bar, and always keep visible no matter how long your page is and how viewers change the window size. Generally, web menu is done by HTML, CSS and jQuery; but it is a difficulty to create such a float menu for web design newbies or if you face urgent design task while time is limited. Maybe, using DHTML menu builder is an easy way for all of us to build float menu in minutes.
Sothink DHTML Menu is an ultimate drop down menu builder; it can build JavaScript menus with simple steps. Besides float menu, DHTML Menu enables to create lots of functional menus, like scroll menu, highlight menu, multi-column menu, and disable items and separators and non-English menu. Now, let’s create float menu in the program:
View float menu sample, and it stays visible even if you scroll down a web page. They’re animated, so they move up and down as you scroll the browser window up or down.
Steps:
1. Start DHTML menu from Built-in Template.
2. Set menu type as Float to create Float menu
Creating float menu is so easy in DHTML menu builder. To build more functional menus, download Sothink DHTML Menu to make them in minutes.
We collect some creative drop down menus for web navigation. Thanks to web designers, they give us more inspiration to create drop down menus and provides new ideas to design navigation bars. Let’s enjoy them:
Navigation bar provides an easy and interesting way to navigate between the site’s main sections on your site for visitors. A navigation bar often extends along the top or side of a Web page and includes text, images, or animations, displayed as buttons that link to other sections or pages in the site.
Besides its function, navigation menu design is very important for your website; your web menu should match with website style. Below, we will show you 5 excellent navigation bars:
These well-designed navigation bars are packaged in Sothink DHTML Menu, you can apply them to your website freely as long as you are the registered users.
You are hosting the frameset website, a drop down menu is required to navigate the website; but the common DHTML menu are unable to popup its sub menu in another frame page. In this case, you need a special cross-frame menu to navigate your frameset website:
let’s check the cross-frame menu sample:
Two Cross-frame Menus in One Page
All the cross-frame menus are made by Sothink DHTML Menu. If you are interested in building cross-frame menu, download this cross-frame menu builder to create your menu sample.
Having set up a website, then you need a navigation menu that can be link to every page on the website. Build a drop down menu manually or generate a menu automatically? Obviously, generating menu automatically is a simple way to reach your needs.
Note: It would be better to use absolute link path in your page.
View visual tutorial to generate a navigation menu
Download Sothink DHTML Menu to build a web menu for the existing website.
Sothink DHTML Menu releases its version 9.5 on August 31, 2010; in this version, 19 new templates are added to built-in templates. Till now, over 100 templates and 30 menu style are packaged in Sothink DHTML Menu; let’s check out another 10 new drop down menus after viewing the previous article:
Download Sothink DHTML Menu to view all 19 free navigation menus. Apply your favorite menu now and light up your website instantly.
Sothink DHTML Menu releases its version 9.5 on August 31, 2010; in this version, 19 new templates are added to built-in templates. Till now, over 100 templates and 30 menu style are packaged in Sothink DHTML Menu; let’s check out 9 new drop down menus:
These navigation bars are fashionable and useful, right? Keep on us to view other 10 new navigation menus.
Download Sothink DHTML Menu to apply them to your website right now.
Generally speaking, some web developers and usability enthusiasts regard using drop down menus as the bad practice that makes them confusing, annoying and oftentimes dysfunctional. Nevertheless, as a designer part, drop-down menus are an excellent feature because they help clean up a busy layout.
Drop-down menus do in fact organize content into small and uncluttered elements, if structured correctly, drop-down menus can be a great navigation tool, while still being a usable and attractive design feature.
How to create a stunning and effective drop-down menu? Here are some tips and ways to make this controversial element more usable.
As the navigation itself affects the usability of the drop-down menu, adding a hover effect to the menu options is good to make the menu work better with the drop-down menus. In this case, the user will be easily to find exactly which button in the navigation menu is extending from, and it is much helpful.
You can see the example below, which shows a strong hover effect on the navigation options, and it contributes to support the drop-down menu.
P.S. Such kind of drop-down menus can be easily created by Sothink DHTML Menu.
You had better avoid a hover structure and many levels in a drop-down menu, but it is restricted to the navigation you are trying to create, if so, just try your best to improve the usability of a hover and multi-level menu!
Please check the next drop-down menus, which have multiple levels with a wide focus range. It means that the user have to move the mouse pointer some distance away from the menu to close it.
If the user moves the pointer away from the menu, the drop-down menus will mostly disappear soon. So, please delay its disappearance or get a click function that requires users to click outside the menu area to close the drop-down menu like the Lightbox does.
It is unwise that one creates drop-down menus in terms of usability. For example, a hover menu structure will make the user lose focus on the menus once the user moves away from the mouse pointer.
The picture below shows the unpleasant hover menus. Apparently, it is hard to use because you have to start from the top whenever even slightly losing focus of the menu with the mouse pointer. To be worse, the tooltip there will hamper the navigation.
Although it is certain that little details impact usability when you design drop-down menus, you’d better realize the presence or lack of tooltips, for the tooltips usually may get in the way and sometimes even block the first list item in the drop-down menu. So please remove tooltips from buttons with drop-down menus.
Take the website below for example, the drop-down menus take up a large part in the page, which let the tooltip block many listed items and make navigation much more difficult.
Many websites make such a mistake: in order to attract the more visitors, they make the websites look brilliant but with the heavy drop-down menus, which take more than an instant to load upon the hover. However, a good drop-down menu ought to appear seamlessly and without interruption once it appears, otherwise, it will be unpractical.
So transition effects are the better way to avoid it happens. It is cool that throw in a wipe down or fade in for the drop-down menu instead of the simply appearing menu, but please make sure the transition quick and not disruptive.
Observe the image below, you will find the drop-down menu is pretty clear with a seamless transitions.
Adobe is a well-known computer software company, it has historically focused upon the creation of multimedia and creativity software products. Though Adobe Systems Incorporated develops so many excellent software, services, resources, etc, you will find everything quickly with the help of Adobe menu, and won’t get lost on their website. How does Adobe menu navigation website effectively? Let’s take a look of snapshot from Adobe website:
Adobe Menu – Features:
In this Adobe menu, menu background and website background are the same, which makes you feel harmonious. At the first sight, just plain text links are on website, but you will see so many menu items after the mouse is over on the top adobe menu; in popup menu items, some items are classified into several categories by Bold and big-size font; the item with link guides the visitors to right web page with one click.
