A Showcase of Website Navigations with Serious Click Appeal
A couple of months ago we posted an article showcasing great website navigations. Consider this the sequel.
The navigation of a website is meant to be clicked. It doesn’t need to blend in or be hard to find. It’s important that it stands out from the rest of the elements on the page, but yet still matches the overall style of the design. Here is a showcase of websites that achieve this in a very stylish way. These navs look amazing, have serious click appeal, and are guaranteed to inspire you.
Clicking on the images will take you to each site.
Vegas Uncork’s
SYNTHVIEW
Help Your Habitat
Electric Pulp
The House Media
Breezy Baby
Curious Generation Group
Pastebot
Chirp
Delibar
Comfort Brothers
Narwhal Co.
Michael Dick
Yellow Bird Project
Ugmonk
Image Spark
Intuitive Designs
Iconlicious
Oval Cube
Neutron Creations
TheOldState
Digital Podge 2009
Arbutus
8Interactive
Cannonball
Sower of Seeds
Ready Made Designs
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34 comments
Saket
February 5, 2010Hey how is my website’s navigation meuu – http://www.techsplurge ?
Jon
February 5, 2010I think http://www.nue-media.com has a cool navigation to
Golf Royalty
February 5, 2010Beautiful collection – it is inspiring me to re think the Golf Royalty nav.
Thanks,
Lee.
hubeRsen
February 5, 2010Thats a great ressource, thanks for sharing… inspiring!
Alan
February 5, 2010Great examples here, love them all.
People are really starting to embrace custom menus as they are drifting away from using drop-down menus.
Anoop Sajid
February 5, 2010love it .. Great examples
name
February 5, 2010Thank you for this list.
This will really help, with my next project.
Sandie
February 5, 2010Nice ressource… I also think the visitors want more userenhanced experience when the visit webpages today.
I’ve also made som interesting animated buttons on this site: http://www.lineofbeauty.dk.
It’s in danish, but I think you can guess the site-contens by hovering over the button-links…
Andy Sowards
February 5, 2010These are fantastic – Really like the simple appeal of some of them – Will definitely keep these in mind for inspiration while doing my redesign
Thanks Henry!
BigM75
February 5, 2010the focus is on the same sites, why? in many aticles are same sites
jc
February 5, 2010Great sites…I am always looking for great sites for inspiration. Thanks!
Tommy
February 5, 2010One site you listed has “packages” as a navigation button, I glanced over it and thought it said “pancakes”. That would have been awesome.
Jordan Walker
February 5, 2010I love clicking my mouse.
I just got a spam message saying that I could make $1,000 dollars a day, just by clicking my mouse 500 times a day!
Willem
February 5, 2010I like most of them. Although I miss more complicated menus with subitems..
Nevertheless thanks for sharing!
Codesquid
February 5, 2010Arbutus Photography is particularly nice!
Anthony
February 5, 2010I was excited to see Ugmonk included in this list! They have an amazing site!
Naomi Niles
February 5, 2010Thanks for the mention!
hamzamalick
February 5, 2010heyyy nice post han i really find it usefull for my web designs i got a lot of idea about the navigation in this post…! cheers
Jason Holland Design
February 5, 2010Great post!
I know when I’m designing a site the navigation is always something I have to spend extra time on.
This will be a great reference to go back to when I need ideas.
Christina Lannen
February 5, 2010Thrilled to see Intuitive Designs included. Naomi and her husband provide great design, and coding.
Aaron
February 6, 2010I would have to say the inspiring layout of the sites give a boost the navigation. I tend to like the navigation most when I like the entire design.
Aftab Khalid
February 6, 2010nice collection thanks for posting…
Webtoolfeed
February 6, 2010Nice collection, Delibar is my favorite.
Autonomy
February 7, 2010Great collection, thanks for the post!
Tim
February 7, 2010I would agree with Aaron. These navigations are not impressive when removed from the sites that contain them. The overall sites are nice. The navigation is just…there. Nothing too special about them except that they help you get from point A to B, which is what navigation is supposed to do.
I’ve seen a lot of sites copying Apple’s navigation and I honestly do not know why. It is completely separate from the rest of the design and does not fit the design at all. It is also very poor at getting you to what you are looking for. Their old navigation was far superior, with a secondary navbar to guide you to the exact page you want to go. Just try to find QuickTime Movie Trailers on there new site.
Matthew Heidenreich
February 7, 2010really digging the iconalicous. Thanks for the list!
PA Designer
February 8, 2010Very inspiring! Thanks for posting the sequel.
Constantin Tovisi
February 8, 2010You should also check out http://www.graffino.com , it has quite a good looking navigation…
Other than that, the list is really cool. Keep up the good work
Website Design Sydney
February 9, 2010Showcase Of Creative Flash Preloaders which may serve as an inspiration..
Marlon
February 20, 2010and maimuse.com?
Mobius
February 24, 2010Very inspirational, thank you. Some are really amazingly designed. Man I’ve got a lot to learn.
Jones
February 26, 2010hei i like most the Pastebot navigation…
Azhaan Shah
April 20, 2010i appreciate all the work they are awesome designs
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July 8, 2010I would agree with Aaron. These navigations are not impressive when removed from the sites that contain them. The overall sites are nice. The navigation is just…there. Nothing too special about them except that they help you get from point A to B, which is what navigation is supposed to do.
I’ve seen a lot of sites copying Apple’s navigation and I honestly do not know why. It is completely separate from the rest of the design and does not fit the design at all. It is also very poor at getting you to what you are looking for. Their old navigation was far superior, with a secondary navbar to guide you to the exact page you want to go. Just try to find QuickTime Movie Trailers on there new site.