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Dec 10

Designing Drop-Down Menus: Examples and Best Practices

Generally, most Web developers, especially those that the user experience, know that a bad practice to estimate using the menus because it confusing, annoying and often are dysfunctional. From design point of view, however, the menu is a great feature, and are to help clean animated design. If well structured menus, can be a great navigational tool, but is a useful and attractive design.

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.

web menuIn 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.

drop down menu

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.

JavaScript Menu

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.

DHTML Menu

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.

Menu Style