Posts Tagged ‘navigation bar’

For web designers, they always look forward to get visual appealing and better usability. It is not difficult to design attractive navigation bars and layout the wonderful website. Just adding a little creative, you can make website appealing and get better user experience.

Let’s share 5 creative navigation bars:

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:

Basically, web menu is generated for website navigation. But, many website designers own so amazing creative , which makes navigation menus become wonderful website element to perfect website design.

Let’s check out six navigation bars to get inspiration:

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:

1. Red & black drop down menu

2. Link chain JavaScript menu


3. Arch DHTML menu


4. Bullet drop-down menu

5. Battery web menu

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.

For web designers, they would like to layout each element in website precisely. As an important element, navigation menu needs to be placed in the proper situation on the website. But how to place navigation bar on special location, how to make it align to other elements? Next, I will show you the ways to position navigation menu:

Position Menu in Web Page by Layer

http://www.sothink.com/tutorials/position-menu-in-web-page-by-layer-properly.htm


Position Menu in Web Page by Table

http://www.sothink.com/tutorials/position-menu-in-web-page-by-table-properly.htm

You can download Sothink DHTML Menu to try position javaScript menu on the webpage.

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:

drop down menu - round rectangle


These navigation bars are fashionable and useful, right? Keep on us to view other 10 new navigation menus.

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to apply them to your website right now.

Tab menu is a space-saving and good-looking navigation bar on the website, which makes browsing easier for visitors. The tab menu divides the information into several sections and distributes them in simple text and nice image, the URL linked to destination description with image will guide the visitors to the web page that most interests them with single click. Tab menu is usually shown as horizontal drop down menu at the top of the page or bars along the side, which is specially used for the website of complicated structure and extensive contents.

Create Tab Menu

• Choose “File > New > Horizontal Menu” to create a horizontal menu.

tab menu

• Enter “Global > Menu Type” and set the menu as “Tab Menu” in “Global – Menu Type” properties panel below.

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• Set width for tab menu. Click “Global > General” and set width as “10%” in “Global – General” properties panel below.

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• Set round-corner background for tab menu. Click “Menu Item > Background” and set round corner in “Menu Item – Background” properties panel below. You can click the button “Background Library” to apply the round corner background directly; also, you can click the button “Custom images” to customize the round-corner background.
Note: If installing Sothink DHTML Menu, you can get the background images at :/Program Files/SourceTec/Sothink DHTML Menu 9/images/Normal/

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• Modify the text and link for menu item. Modify the text and link for your website. Click the text on menu panel, select the option “Menu Item > General”, and edit the text and link in property panel below.

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• Add more menu items for this tab menu. Still in menu panel, select the “DHTML Menu” and click the left-side button “Insert Item After” to add menu items. The new items will inherit the properties of the menu item “DHTML Menu”.

navigation bar

That’s end, tab menu is finished. Download Sothink DHTML Menu to create your own one.

Tab Menu is a special drop down menu, which lists more menu items in the less space. This kind of tab menu is usually shown as horizontal DHTML menu, and its submenus list in below line. The sub menu items will be listed beneath it when moving mouse over a tab menu. The menu of round corner makes the navigation bar clear and good-looking. As a kind of widely-used JavaScript menus nowadays, it displays the sub-menu items vividly and gives the visitors deep impression.

Below websites include the excellent tab menus:

  • http://www.listal.com/
  • http://qrayg.com/
  • http://www.box.net
  • http://kurier.at/wirtschaft/

View tutorial to create tab menu >>

Sothink DHTML Menu can create the various drop down menus, JavaScript menus, navigation

bars amd web menus without coding.  With this drop down menu builder, you can create the  diverse menu styles, such as horizontal menu, vertical menu, etc. Next, I will show you the excellent JavScript menus made by Sothin DHTML Menu:

Drop Down Menu Samples – Tab Menu

JavaScript Menu Samples – Multi-level & Multi-column

Navigation Bar Samples – Clone of some famous menus

JavaScript Menu Samples – Database Driven & Special Effect

Come to our menu samples to view more well-design menus.

Many menu samples have been saved to built-in template; download Sothink DHTML Menu to create your own menu.

You are beginner or amateur on building drop down menu; you are unable to create the same navigation bar in your mind. Maybe, Sothink DHTML Menu can help you to build the ideal JavaScript menu. View our simple tutorials to start your web menu.

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    You are the experienced web designer on menu creation, but you wanna to make data-drive menu by JSP, ASP or PHP at this time. Come on, view our tutorial to learning to create such a functional menu:

    When creating web menus, you maybe meet the problem. Yes, you can resort to DHTML Menu tutorial to settle your problem down:

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