Chapter 10. User Interface Plugins: Menu and Navigation Plugins

No matter what kind of website we are going to build or what particular design we are looking forward to realizing, following a given inspiration of any kind, we will need a menu to allow visitors to navigate through our creation.

It's as simple as that, and we can't run away from it in any way. All of the pages that we have uploaded to our web server and are designed to be available to the guests to read need to be linked somehow.

Sure, we might use a series of links randomly put inside some text. However, the point here is to create a functional and easy-to-use interface that even the web bunglers will be happy (and able!) to make use of.

Since the early days of graphical user interfaces, menus (particularly drop-down menus for that matter) have been heavily used in both desktop applications (look around and notice how many drop-down menus are surrounding you in this very moment!) and in websites and applications, which have quickly followed suit in the drop-down menu trend. This has eventually led to an unjustified use of them in many cases.

The topics we're going to discuss include: