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  • Navigation Menus: Trends and Examples

    By Smashing Editorial, February 26th, 2008 in Design Showcase | 259 Comments

    Navigation is the most significant element in web design. Since web-layouts don't have any physical representation a user can stick to, consistent navigation menu is one of the few design elements which provide users with some sense of orientation and guide them through the site. Users should be able to rely on it which is why designers shouldn't mess around with it.

    That's why in most cases it's where simple, intuitive and conventional solutions are usually the best option. However, it doesn't mean that they need to be boring. One year ago we've presented modern approaches of navigation design. Let's take a look at what's different now, which trends one can observe and what ideas you can develop further in your projects.

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    This article presents recent trends, examples and innovative solutions for design of modern navigation menus. All images are clickable and lead to the sites from which they've been taken. We've missed something? Definitely! Let us know in the comments!

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  • 80+ AJAX-Solutions For Professional Coding

    By Smashing Editorial, June 20th, 2007 in Developer's Toolbox | 420 Comments

    Web-developers can create amazing web-applications with AJAX. Stikkit, Netvibes, GMail and dozens of further web-projects offer a new level of interactivity we've used to give up the idea of. Modern web-applications can be designed with enhanced user interfaces and functionalities, which used to be the privelege of professional desktop-applications. AJAX makes it possible to create more interactive, more responsive and more flexible web-solutions. And it's the first step towards rich internet applications of the future.

    AJAX Scripts - AutoSuggest: An AJAX auto-complete text field : CSS . XHTML . Javascript . DOM, Development : Brand Spanking New

    AJAX Scripts - Comunidade brasileira da biblioteca EXTJS

    Asynchronous JavaScript and XML isn't a new programming language, as it is often mistakingly called. Basically, AJAX is a set of XHTML, CSS, DOM, XMLHttpRequest and XML, put together and used together for the same purpose - to improve the user-server-interaction. In this article we'd like to present a list of over 90 useful AJAX-based techniques you should always have ready to hand developing AJAX-based web-applications. Auto-completion, instant field editing, menus, calendars, interactive elements, visual effects, animation, basic javascripts, as well as an extensive developer's suite should give you a useful and powerful toolbox you can use every day, without a need to go through hundreds of AJAX-related bookmarks. You may also want to take a look at the article 60 More Ajax and Javascript Solutions For Professional Coding.

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  • CSS-Based Navigation Menus: Modern Solutions

    By Smashing Editorial, March 14th, 2007 in CSS | 243 Comments

    Navigation menus have to be intuitive, precise and easy-to-use. One simple, basic principle, which is common for all kinds of nav bars you would ever want to use for your projects. In fact, navigation menu is probably the most important element in web design: after all, it is being used more often than any other element on a given page. Therefore it's important to make sure that your visitors will find they way around the site structure - however complex the latter might be. So how do designers cope with a challenging task to create an attractive and usable menu? Which results can be achieved? OK, that's a tough one. Let's take a look around. Below you'll find 53 beautiful and user-friendly Navigation Menus and solutions web-designers came up with using basic CSS styling. PS: Over the last few months we've reviewed CSS-Based Techniques, CSS-Based Forms and CSS-Based Tables and CSS-Based Footers (yes, some of these techniques use not only CSS, but also JavaScript and PHP). You'll find even more CSS-related articles in our CSS Section.

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  • CSS: Techniques, Tutorials, Layouts

    By Smashing Editorial, October 25th, 2006 in CSS | 59 Comments

    Since web-development is a quite dynamic field nowadays, new techniques are being developed and updated all the time. A primary example are CSS-related techniques, which emerge almost every day and offer more possibilities for fellows web-developers. We keep an eye on the recent developments and collect new ideas and methods for our readers. A "fresh" round-up of the "fresh" CSS techniques, tutorials and layouts. PS: You might be willing to check out the List of CSS Tools, too.

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