It seems to be a common trend that when creating a modern web design, it is accompanied by a horizontal navigation. The design of the navigation itself greatly varies from thick to thin, obvious to subtle, single line to double, but at the end of the day it is still a horizontal navigation bar.
Recently, as we have been working on more and more websites that are supported by a content management system, designs need to look awesome, as well as being flexible. A client may provide a brief with a set number of pages to be built, but a feature they are sold on with having a CMS, is that they can add as many pages as they need to their sites.
For this reason designs, but more specifically, navigation bars need to be flexible. One easy work around for this is to clarify with the client that they can add as many sub pages as they wish to their site, which just means that as web developers, we need to ensure a drop down menu is functional and flexible. However, this is putting some constraints on the control that a client has over their site. This becomes even more prevalent with online shops. They may have a set menu, but they also have categories that can grow and shrink accordingly, and site designs should have the capability to be able to work with these changes.
Below are some examples of vertical menu structures in web sites that have managed to keep the design fresh and modern.
What do you think.. got any good examples of Vertical Menus?
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