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20 Stunning Examples of Horizontal Navigation Menus

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Navigation Menus of a website is the heart of the design. Mostly standing right next to the logo, these menus are the second most prominent thing on the website after the logo. Usually towards the top of the page therefore also delivering the first impression to your users. As we proceed into 2009, we see more and more horizontal menu designs. To give designers a good source and list of inspiration, I have collected one of the best examples of horizontal navigation menus.

These Menus are beautiful, creative, stylish and they are just stunning.

1. Face Designs

Face Design - Stunning Horizontal Navigation Menus

2. Loodo

Loodo - Stunning Horizontal Navigation Menus

3. David Hellmann

David Hellmann - Stunning Horizontal Navigation Menus

4. Sarah Longnecker

Sarah Longnecker - Stunning Horizontal Navigation Menus

5. Rzepak

Rzepak - Stunning Horizontal Navigation Menus

6. Clearleft Ltd.

Clearleft - Stunning Horizontal Navigation Menus

7. Project Vino

Project Vino - Stunning Horizontal Navigation Menus

8. Satsu

Satsu - Stunning Horizontal Navigation Menus

9. Sarah Hyland

Sarah Hyland - Stunning Horizontal Navigation Menus

10. eQuality Solutions

Equality Solutions - Stunning Horizontal Navigation Menus

11. Single Hop

Single Hop - Stunning Horizontal Navigation Menus

12. Benjamin Christie

Benjamin Christie - Stunning Horizontal Navigation Menus

13. Tutorial9

Tutorial9 - Stunning Horizontal Navigation Menus

14. MacRabbit

MacRabbit - Stunning Horizontal Navigation Menus

15. Interpoint

Interpoint - Stunning Horizontal Navigation Menus

16. Blogger Bakeoff

Blogger Bakeoff - Stunning Horizontal Navigation Menus

17. Naoizi Kidz

Naoizi Kidz - Stunning Horizontal Navigation Menus

18. Blue Fountain Media

Blue Fountain Media - Stunning Horizontal Navigation Menus

19. Manndible Cafe

Manndible Cafe - Stunning Horizontal Navigation Menus

20. Kupferwerk

Kupferwerk - Stunning Horizontal Navigation Menus

I hope you enjoyed the collection of these stunning navigation practices. If you are a web designer, I suggest you start using some of these ways because that is where the future is headed towards. Incorporate some of them in your own designs and try to be creative ;)

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22 Comments

Comment by Wordpress Themes
2009-05-12 08:43:41

Nice list. Some of them I saw on Smashing Mag


Comment by Syed Balkhi
2009-05-12 08:45:00

Got them from multiple CSS Galleries, but yes you will see alot of them cross listed everywhere because they are simply great.


 
 
Comment by Mohd Atif
2009-05-12 08:47:07

Thanks…

This inspires me a menu for my new free theme


 
Comment by Nikki Subscribed to comments via email
2009-05-12 09:42:02

Loving these! There’s some great inspiration here. Thanks for sharing, Syed!


 
Comment by Blog Expert
2009-05-12 10:39:01

I also saw some of these on smashing magazine, but that is probably because they are really great. Just wish I could design some of them myself for a thesis Wordpres theme.


Comment by Syed Balkhi
2009-05-12 10:46:56

I am personally a fan of good hover combos. So if you have that, I like it. Try playing around with good hover combos. Doesn’t need to be fancy, just need to stand out you know.


 
Comment by Syed Balkhi
2009-05-12 10:47:52

BTW: With your site, Black looks alot better than the REd and blue ones.. So I suggest go with black all the way as hover.. and make the black stay on the current page using css or js


 
 
Comment by stuartflatt
2009-05-12 11:11:17

Nice list there, always good to see some fresh ideas on how we can make our navigation better. After all it is one of the most important parts!


 
Comment by Sayz
2009-05-12 14:00:45

Nice list, although list post is easier (like this one) to make,
but it requires a lot of work to select these site from multiple site.

So this is Syed favorite site =)…
I think I saw a blog with unique layout every post,
hmm..wondered which one…


 
2009-05-12 20:03:52

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Comment by Silvia
2009-05-12 23:04:21

All the examples are attractive in their own way.


 
Comment by Webkinz Subscribed to comments via email
2009-05-13 02:05:31

Cool! Thanks for gathering that.


 
Comment by Best CSS Gallery
2009-05-13 03:37:54

Nice list


 
Comment by Nicole Price
2009-05-13 08:12:40

Without exception they are all very attractive. Good selection. Thanks.


 
2009-05-13 08:22:39

These are great designs. I wonder if things like these can be implemented in WordPress blogs?


 
Comment by Web Design Beach
2009-05-13 12:42:19

Oh, great list indeed. These menu examples are really inspiring, and are surely not as easy as they look, to put make the rolling on browser.


 
Comment by Levy Consulting
2009-05-20 00:38:59

I wanna to create a new theme with this list. These are simply great and attractive.


 
Comment by Faye
2009-05-25 23:10:07

These are great – and there’s a great mix here of things that clearly require Photoshop/other image software for their hover effects, and horizontal menus that just have good old fashioned a:hover effects.


 
Comment by Make Money
2009-06-06 02:09:43

Out of all, 2 and 9 were the best. Now that’s some real creativity. although 5 and 7 are pretty good too.


 
2009-09-07 06:02:53

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Comment by sayan mukherjee
2009-09-07 14:07:10

These are simply great.


 
2009-09-08 05:16:43

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