The importance of a website’s navigation shouldn’t be overlooked. After all, without it, one wouldn’t make it much further than the home page. That’s why designers spend extra effort coming up with ways to make the navigation menu not only look great, but also easy to use. For your Monday inspiration, we’ve rounded up 25 examples of beautiful and inspiring navigation menus.
Beautiful Type
Also some nice colors and type here. Social menu on the header and everything else on the left side.
Drupalcon Denver
Single page layout with footer navigation menus that will take you around.
CXXVI
Browse around using the header menu or the image slider, really nice and clean.
Unfold
Another beautiful single page layout with a nice and smooth header navigation menu to take you around.
Tinkering Monkey
Beautiful layout! Nice and clean menu, colors and typography.
Shout
Nice colorful layout with a basic straightforward menu. Also a nice typography choice.
Sellected Studio
Really beautiful layout and navigation. Color combination and typography are really elegant.
Webvisionary Awards
A strong and cool single page layout. You can scroll around or use the header nav menu.
David Desandro
Nice layout based on shapes and typography. Header menu using pure typography and hover effects.
TEDxPortland
Another nice single page layout with footer navigation menus that will take you around.
Bluecadet Interactive
Beautiful and elegant layout with nice navigation menu that ‘frame up’ when you hover it.
anCnoc
Clean layout based on typography and beautiful images. Header and footer menus to help your navigation.
Lounge
Delicate single page design with typographic header menus.
Gene’s Sausage Shop
Beautiful typography and style on the navigation menu, and it actually looks like a real menu. 😉
Luke Dorny
Nice layout, colors, typography and menus. I also really liked the blurred effect when you load the page, check it out.
Visual Republic
Elegant single page design with a side menu that follow you where you go and help you navigate the site.
Wigolia
Beautiful layout. Elegant choice of colors and typography. Smooth navigation menu with a fade hover effect.
Facio Design
Beautiful layout and colors. Nice framed menu with hover effects.
Collaborative Fund
Another nice single page layout with smooth navigation menus.
The Coastal Cupboard
Nice layout, colors, type and images. Elegant and simple navigation menu with hover effects.
Ferocious
Header menu based on typography and shapes.
Scribble & Tweak
Super beautiful single page layout with smooth and clean menus.
Don’t Throw Batteries
Big and simple – a good combination for an effective nav.
Nordkapp
Yes, another single page layout with smooth navigation. 😉
Interlink Conference
Nice colors, type and menus.
