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The
most important part of designing a new site is the navigation or menu
system, but this can be tricky, time consuming and often frustrating.
You need something that will fit into your design and most importantly,
allow your readers to navigate with ease. Below you will find 24 CSS
(in some cases with a little jQuery) Navigation and Menu Tutorials to
help you on your way.
URL : Vimeo-Like Top Navigation »
Description : If you like the top navigation used on
Vimeo, you will love this tutorial. The menu drops down when you hover
over the search box and tt offers you different search options that you
can choose and narrow your search.
This is an excellent tut to give you an insight into how the high-end sites cleverly use CSS.
Demo : View Demo »
URL : Tabbed Navigation Using CSS »
Description : In this thoroughly detailed (and easy to
follow) tutorial you will be taught how to create low-bandwidth tab
navigation on a web page using CSS, as an extra bonus you'll also learn
how to switch tabs without loading the page more than once.
Demo : View Demo »
URL : Sexy Drop Down Menu with jQuery and CSS »
Description : In this tutorial you will learn how to
create a 'sexy' drop down menu that will also degrade gracefully with
CSS and a some jQuery. Excellent tutorial from Noupe,as always.
Demo : View Demo »
URL : Bulletproof CSS Sliding Doors »
Description : A variant on the original sliding doors
tecnique from Douglas Bowman, this tutorial tackles issues such as dead
pixel areas, empty <span> tags, Internet Explorer and older
browser inconsistencies and solving the problem of increased font-sizes.
Demo : View Demo »
URL : Vertical CSS menu with jQuery toggle effect »
Description : In this tutorial you will learn how to create a vertical CSS menu with a show/hide feature using jQuery.
URL : PHP and CSS menu »
Description : You will learn how to use PHP to control
CSS styles to highlight the tab or hit area of a html menu with styles
controlled by CSS.
Demo : View Demo »
URL : DropDown CSS Menu »
Description : This CSS menu will have submenus and
will use the web-techniques HTML, CSS and the ?whatever:hover? behavior
file to make things work in Firefox and IE6.
Demo : View Demo »
URL : Pure CSS Vertical Navigation Menu »
Description : You will build the second most common
site menu navigation, the vertical navigation menu, in this tutorial.
You are going to be using only pure CSS and unordered lists to create
the vertical navigation menu with three levels of pop outs. Thie
navigation menu will work in IE5, IE6, IE7 and IE8 as well as Firefox
and Safari.
Demo : View Demo »
URL : Nested Side Bar Menu »
Description : This is a simple yet professional
looking multi level side menu. Markup wise it's just a regular nested
UL list, turned into a drop down menu using a very small JavaScript
code.
Demo : View Demo »
URL : CSS Overlapping Tabs Menu »
Description : In this tutorial you?re going to learn
to create a simple, yet cool menu with overlapping tabs, that is easily
customised, lightweight and versatile.
Demo : View Demo »
URL : Creating a glassy non div navigation bar »
Description : In this tutorial you will not use any
divs, instead you will be forming a navigation bar using a unordered
list. This tutorial will show you how to style and control lists in
CSS, as well as showing you the valid ways of using lists and where to
use them.
Demo : View Demo »
URL : Rounded corner CSS navigation bar with jQuery »
Description : You will be shown how to add some nice
round corner effect to your anchor elements with jQuery, for your
navigation, without using any image.
URL : Create a multilevel Dropdown menu with CSS and jQuery »
Description : This tutorial is split into two parts,
the first part is dedicated to the task of building a working CSS-only
dropdown menu , the second part will show you how you can pimp the
whole thing with a few lines of jQuery.
Demo : View Demo »
URL : CSS Navigation Menus »
Description : This tutorial will teach you how to create different menu styles for a main menu, submenu, and footer menu.
URL : Simple CSS Vertical Menus »
Description : In this tutorial you will learn the basics of creating simple vertical menus for your website using only HTML and CSS.
URL : Multi-Level CSS Dropdown Menu in Dreamweaver CS4 »
Description : Traditionally, multi-level dropdown menu
navigation have been done in JavaScript, these kinds of menus can be
very confusing for a beginner, and even more confusing to go back and
edit later. You will learn how to do this better and more beautifully
with CSS and Dreamweaver CS4.
For this tutorial, you?ll be making a horizontal navigation bar for a
zoo. It will have dropdowns and a couple of items will have flyouts to
the right.
Demo : View Demo »
URL : Designing the Digg Header »
Description : The Digg navigation is compacted with
the use of simple drop-down menus. Important things like subscribing,
searching and account information are right up top where you would
expect them to be. It?s fluid width, but it doesn?t shrink too far or
grow too big. Like the Vimeo tutorial above, this is also an excellent
tut to give you an insight into how the high-end sites cleverly use CSS.
Demo : View Demo »
URL : Pure CSS Fish Eye Menu »
Description : A pure CSS technique to transform your
icon menu into an interactive zooming icon navigation menu inspired
from Mac OSX Dock with fish eye effect. One of many ways to style html
list tags into interactive, usable, and accessible menu using pure CSS.
Demo : View Demo »
URL : CSS Navigation Image Rollovers »
Description : This tutorial will show you how to
create a navigation menu with image rollovers built with CSS that uses
only one image and very minimal HTML / CSS code.
Demo : View Demo »
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