10 JavaScript CSS Menus Free Collection
Menus are one of the most important parts of your website. They help direct your readers to what they want. Today there are thousands of websites on all the topics that you can think of. No matter how brilliant your content is, if your website is confusing, if your readers face problems in how to navigate through your site, you are going to lose a great percentage of them as they will quickly transition to some other site which is user-friendly. Besides, menus also enhance your SEO. Good sites use the high-ranking keywords in their menus to get traffic from search engines. These two reasons should be enough to convince you that you should take utmost care in designing your menus.
Below we have collected 10 beautiful and free menus designed with the help of JavaScript CSS. While thinking which one to choose do not only go on their beauty. Some of the menus are slide down menus which means that when a reader brings his cursor on a particular tab a small window “drops down” with more options. In some cases the dropped down menu further branches out into a new window when the cursor is brought on to it. Some menus appear in the top of the screen while others will appear in the left or right hand corners of the screen.
None of them are good or bad. Which one is “good” for you will depend upon your needs and requirements.
1. Slide down Box Menu
Unique sliding box navigation. The idea is to make a box with the menu item slide out, while a thumbnail pops up. We will also include a submenu box with further links for some of the menu items. The submenu will slide to the left or to the right depending on which menu item we are hovering.
2. Lava Lamp
Nifty effect of Lava Lamp. What you just experienced is nothing but the Lava Lamp menu packaged as a Plugin for the amazing jQuery JavaScript library. I personally believe that the effect rivals that of flash – Don’t you? Especially considering the fact that it is extremely light weight.
3. CSS JavaScript Menu
Build menus completely based on Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).
4. Slashdot Menu
This is a stylish collapsible menu modeled after the navigational menu found on Slashdot. Configure the menu in a multitude of ways, such as which sub menus to expand by default, whether to persist menu states using cookies, to the speed in which menu items expand/ collapse. Very cool.
5. Mootools drop down menu
Simple, MooTools 1.2 drop down menu. It supports only one level of submenus.
6. CSS Menu with slider
This little example shows how to make really simple and yet very nice CSS Menu with slider.
7. JavaScript drop-down menu
Easily configurable and adjustable our html menu comes with the full set of features you expect from the modern menu control.
8. CSS Dock Menu
If you are a big Mac fan, you will love this CSS dock menu. It is using jQuery library and fisheye component from Interface and some of my icons. It comes with two dock position: top and bottom. This CSS dock menu is perfect to add-on to my iTheme. Here I will show you how to implement it to your web page.
9. Menu using CSS and a little JavaScript
Drop down menus are among the coolest things on the web. Beside that they are also very good for creating navigations that contain many elements.
10. Webber 2.0 Dock Menu
In this short tutorial I will go though the CSS and a little bit of JavaScript that creates the Webber 2.0 Dock Menu.
You can see a demo version of these menus by clicking on the “Demo” links above or you can download the menus by clicking on the “Download” links of the respective buttons. I hope you liked the above collection. Let me know in the comments below which of the above you liked the most and why? I am curious to know your views.
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