20 Stunning Examples of Horizontal Navigation Menus
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
2. Loodo
3. David Hellmann
4. Sarah Longnecker
5. Rzepak
6. Clearleft Ltd.
7. Project Vino
8. Satsu
9. Sarah Hyland
10. eQuality Solutions
11. Single Hop
12. Benjamin Christie
13. Tutorial9
14. MacRabbit
15. Interpoint
16. Blogger Bakeoff
17. Naoizi Kidz
18. Blue Fountain Media
19. Manndible Cafe
20. Kupferwerk
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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Hey, I am Syed Balkhi, The guy who is behind Balkhis Inc. I entered the industry back in 2002 not knowing a single thing. I barely spoke English at that time. In the past six years, my language barrier has been eliminated. Aside from English, now I also speak html, and php. Along with the languages I have also managed to master a few arts. Art of web-designing started when I first entered. Messing around with photoshop, I learned how to create my first web design. Now I founded a web designing firm Uzzz Productions. After running numerous amount of websites in various niche, I have mastered the art of web-development. Now I am compiling a resource of what I already know, and what I am learning on this blog. This resource is to help me if I ever need a guide to look back to, and it is help my fellow webmasters.
Nice list. Some of them I saw on Smashing Mag
Got them from multiple CSS Galleries, but yes you will see alot of them cross listed everywhere because they are simply great.
Thanks…
This inspires me a menu for my new free theme
Loving these! There’s some great inspiration here. Thanks for sharing, Syed!
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.
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.
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
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!
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…
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All the examples are attractive in their own way.
Cool! Thanks for gathering that.
Nice list
Without exception they are all very attractive. Good selection. Thanks.
These are great designs. I wonder if things like these can be implemented in WordPress blogs?
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.
I wanna to create a new theme with this list. These are simply great and attractive.
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.
Out of all, 2 and 9 were the best. Now that’s some real creativity. although 5 and 7 are pretty good too.
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These are simply great.
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