30+ Beautiful Menus Examples
March 22nd, 2009 by Tweet
Spice up your site’s menu, and the world will take notice! An eye-catching and attractive, yet functional, menu is so essential to making an exceptional website because it is on of the first objects a reader may notice when they enter your site, and it is the area of the site that receives the most frequent traffic. In my opinion, an outstanding menu must consist of three main design features: 1) it must be understandable and react to the mouseover, 2) it must be exceptionally eye-catching and aesthetically pleasing, and 3) it must be clear, useful, and easy to function. Here are a few menus I consider amazing from around the world! Enjoy! And, remember to leave your comments!
CodeGreene
BC Children’s Hospital Foundation
Elixir
Golden Pride Children’s Choir
Michele’s Freeminding
vanblog
Under the Sun Garden Centers
OC Vision
Enjoying God Ministries
Mint
Kim Archer Workshops
Harbor Presbyterian Church
Bay Realty
Help Me Rent
Storenvy
The Lippincott
Deluge Studios
EGOLOUNGE
farfromfearless
CSS Vault
MacRabbit
Jiri Tvrdek
White House
Opera Mage
folietto
weProsper
2Pitch
13 Creative
Portfolio de Guillaume Pacheco
The Idiotic Adventures of Philippe and Pierre
Imenestrelli
iSpoil
Jay Hafling
Jay Hafling
Max & Lou’s
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Teylor Feliz is a well-known XHTML/CSS/JavaScript enthusiast from Dominican Republic. He has more than 10 years experience in the computer programming, graphic design, and web development world, including 2 years teaching computer science. Teylor has a degree in Applied Sciences from the University of Louisiana and is completing a Master’s degree in IT with a concentration in Web Design and Development, at the University of Denver.
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nice examples of web menus, I like
codeGrene, Enjoying God Ministries, CSS Vault. thanks for the list..
Have a look at this guy’s, I like how he has the fade effect.
http://www.fallingautumn.com
For the most part I really like them, but with CodeGreene I think they make a pretty big graphical / usability mistake of not having a hover state. Compare it to Elixir, for example, which also uses somewhat similar tabs, but there is a change on hover, even is subtle.
Just my $0.02 worth.
Prescott Computer Guy: Michael Glasser
http://prescottcomputerguy.com
All Menus Are So Cool
The use of four totally different hues of blue is horrible in the presidential menu.
Nice mix
Finally, someone mentioned the White House. I have taken fancy to it for quite sometime already.
I like your examples, but not one of them is a vertical nav. They are all horizontal. Do you have any good examples of vertical navs?
Stay tuned, we are making a list about vertical menus and another post about dark designs.
Maybe next time we can make you list
http://michaelaustinproductions.com/
I agree on the need for hover states. Good tutorial on designing hyperlinks: http://www.webdesignfromscratch.com/usability/clear-hyperlinks.php
Hi,
my one-page portfolio?
You might also want to check http://www.mediavormgever.com
A dutch one-page portfolio site
hey…this is really cool…!