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Navigation menus used to be a fairly simple thing. Code up an unordered list, float it left and you’re good to go. With responsive design being all the rage these days though you’re faced with some new challenges when creating a menu design.

Follow along as we start from scratch and code a simple but effective responsive navigation menu that you can easily modify and reuse in your own projects.

What We’re Building

If you’re the kind of person who likes to skip ahead, here’s a sneak peek at what we’re building. Be sure to resize your browser window to see the responsive concepts in action. Read on »

Facebook might not have all the glittery text and obnoxious backgrounds that MySpace has, but it still has its fair share of useless apps.

This is especially true if you have ever tried to search for creative Facebook apps or those that may be of interest to creative people.

If you have ever searched for such a thing, you have no doubt realized that there is an abundance of useless apps. This is the reason that I went through just about every app on Facebook to find the very few that were best suited for creative individuals, or had some sort of visual flair about them.

So here are 25 awesome Facebook applications that most designers will enjoy in their Facebook pages.

1. Addicted to Photoshop

This is a neat app brought to you by the master minds behind the “Sheezy” sites (Brusheezy, Flasheezy, etc).

“Photoshop Brush Junkies Rejoice! Get your daily fix of new Photoshop brushes and patterns from Brusheezy.com!”

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Often used on e-commerce and large scale web sites, the mega menus become more popular in modern web design. They are a great and effective way to display large amount of content on your website while you keep a nice and clean layout.

With mega menu you will be able to improve the navigation and usability on your web sites. In this article I will show you some premium CSS only mega menus and the best features that each one has to offer.

CSS3 and HTML5 Mega Menus

iNav – CSS3 Mega Menu

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jQuery framework has been a hot topic these few years in web design and development. New tutorials, new techniques and cool effects are being released by developers everyday.As a jQuery lover, I always find myself trying to invent something really cool, useful and able to integrate into design easily. This time, I’ve chosen 5 very useful and helpful navigation menu samples to share with you.

While waiting our SEO series to come out, I showcased for you pretty huge and comprehensive navigation menu and button tutorial article. All of those tutorials are selected carefully just featuring here, the most high quality ones.

Navigation is very important aspect in every web-design, because it is usually the place where people will click the most as well as notice creative and usable buttons. Really all we need is to get visitor remember our site! To complete and sharpen you need to use menu builder here, actually version doesn’t matter, I am sure everything can be completed in menu builders!

Let’s get started and learn how to create shiny, clean, stylish, glossy or even 3D navigation menus! Hope you will enjoy this article!

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