Comments on: 30 Examples of Excellent Website Navigation

By: Lkenneth

Lkenneth — Mon, 02 May 2011 10:54:02 +0000

awesome thanks!

By: lono

lono — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 15:08:20 +0000

wow, lovely collection. inspiring stuff.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 23:17:05 +0000

Great selection. Thanks!

By: pete wilson

pete wilson — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 13:34:29 +0000

Absolutely beautiful and mega-useful. Thanks!

By: Adlo

Adlo — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 09:02:41 +0000

Very nice !!!!!

By: Rick Lecoat

Rick Lecoat — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 12:17:51 +0000

Everyone seems very impressed with these navigation examples, and yes they do look lovely, but has anyone stress-tested them in any way beyond simply ooh-ing and ahh-ing at the pretty graphics? And by stress test I mean even the very basics?

The very first two I looked at (Collision and Exclusive Reels) break as functional navigation with Images turned off. At least ER regains some usability if you turn off CSS (the text links become visible again as unstyled text); Collision, incredibly, doesn’t even provide for that eventuality, with empty links in its navigation markup.

If web design is nothing more than making things pretty then, yes, these are excellent examples of navigation. If, on the other hand, you subscribe as I do to the notion that web design is *also* about ideas such as usability, accessibility and graceful degradation/progressive enhancement — rather than just catering to the highest common denominator — then both those sites get an F.

Sorry to be blunt about it.

By: Victoria Blount

Victoria Blount — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 08:44:56 +0000

The excellent navigation examples have several things in common which make them clear and easy to navigate, like the font size and colour and defined over state.

By: ddeja

ddeja — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 18:20:20 +0000

I wasn’t looking at all of them but…

The “Idea Lists” – i think there’s a small defect on the drop down element. After clicking on it the cursos goes to default (i think it should stay as pointer).

I like also Brizk Desing even though I don’t really like those one page sliding websites.

And my favourite TedxToronto – clean, simple and beautiful font.

Cheers.

By: Simon Hardware

Simon Hardware — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 15:32:47 +0000

Keeping it simple seems to be the way forward with most web design

By: Raelin

Raelin — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 06:38:17 +0000

Neat , simple, easily understood: just what navigation should be about and just what the sites featured have.