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Fave Navigation Style of the Moment: Fixed Horizontal Navbar
Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2014 10:21 am
by Robin
YAY fixed navbars!! *pompoms*
You can see this style in action on
my main domain--for Version 14, I discovered how to make a navbar "stick" to the top of the page so it would scroll with the user, and I'm pretty much in love with it. LOL
The main reason I like the fixed navbar so much is that it solves one of my biggest pet peeves in webdesign--having to scroll all the way up to the top of a long page to get back to the navigation. I wanted to spare my users that frustration, so I piddled around trying to figure out a simple, non-Javascript way to make it work till I found this.
I know it's not mobile-friendly (that'll be my challenge for V15--a mobile-friendly layout! GASP!), but what do y'all think of this navigation style?
Re: Fave Navigation Style of the Moment: Fixed Horizontal Na
Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2014 2:17 pm
by Todd
I love it! I think it looks awesome.
Re: Fave Navigation Style of the Moment: Fixed Horizontal Na
Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2014 3:17 pm
by nyxmidnight
My work screen is too big for it to scroll XD
Re: Fave Navigation Style of the Moment: Fixed Horizontal Na
Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2014 3:41 pm
by Emma
Very convenient for navigating, I like it! :) works fine on my iPad, too.
Re: Fave Navigation Style of the Moment: Fixed Horizontal Na
Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2014 6:04 pm
by Robin
nyxmidnight wrote:My work screen is too big for it to scroll XD
Lol! My screen resolution must be tiny compared to your work screen--I have to scroll a tiny bit on most of my domain pages. :D
Glad to hear it looks good even on an iPad--I hadn't tested too much on mobile except for my iPhone, which means a whole lotta zooming going on, :P
Re: Fave Navigation Style of the Moment: Fixed Horizontal Na
Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2014 10:09 pm
by Mikari
I think it looks good and it's convenient :D
Re: Fave Navigation Style of the Moment: Fixed Horizontal Na
Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2014 6:55 am
by Destinie
Ohh I love the fixed nav-bars! Especially the ones that seem to "snap" to the top of the screen as you scroll down. I want to implement these more in my designs in the future and break away from a lot of designs that I feel are out-dated (for me, personally). In general I want to put more effort into making my layouts.
I also really like sidebar sub-navs.
Re: Fave Navigation Style of the Moment: Fixed Horizontal Na
Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2014 2:58 pm
by Robin
Destinie wrote:Ohh I love the fixed nav-bars! Especially the ones that seem to "snap" to the top of the screen as you scroll down. I want to implement these more in my designs in the future and break away from a lot of designs that I feel are out-dated (for me, personally). In general I want to put more effort into making my layouts.
I also really like sidebar sub-navs.
Awesome! Yeah, I keep trying to teach myself new webdesign tricks (with about 60% success rate, LOL), and this is one I like. I would love to learn how to do the ones that "snap" up to the top of the page, but I think that involves some jQuery and other scary languages I don't understand. xD
I finally figured out how to do a simple sidebar sub-nav one time, using several PHP include files (those things are such a blessing!!)--do you make yours the same way?
Re: Fave Navigation Style of the Moment: Fixed Horizontal Na
Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2014 10:56 am
by nyxmidnight
Re: Fave Navigation Style of the Moment: Fixed Horizontal Na
Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2014 6:49 pm
by Robin
Ooo that's the style I was trying to emulate! Thank you! *clickies and reads*