25+ Tutorials on How to Build Navigation Menus with jQuery
Below is a list of tutorials that teach how to use jQuery when building different navigation menus, but before you start exploring the tutorials, why don’t you learn what jQuery is about.
jQuery is a lightweight JavaScript library that makes it quicker and easier to build JavaScript web pages and web application. It helps web designers and web developers add dynamic content to their sites. With jQuery they can work faster and bring the usability to the highest level. If you’d like to learn more about this tool, please visit jQuery.com.
And now feel free to check the tutorials. Note: each tutorial featured below comes with a live demo and clear guidelines.
1.Sproing! – Make An Elastic Thumbnail Menu
The tutorial provides tips on how to create an original navigation menu that would work in the following way: the menu item would grow when you hover the cursor over it.
It’s more a tool than a tutorial, but it allows you to have a stunning navigation menu that every Mac fan would like.
If you like image menus, then you’ll be excited to know that such navigation menus can now be created with jQuery.
4. Beautiful Slide Out Navigation: A CSS and jQuery Tutorial
If you don’t like websites with annoying navigation, then this tutorial is exactly for you; it teaches how to create a stylish slide out navigation menu. This menu you can create with this guide is really original because the menu buttons are almost invisible. The visitors have to hover over the area next to the navigation menu in order to choose the button they’d like to click. This menu is great if you want the navigation to take minimal space on the website.
5. How to Make a Smooth Animated Menu with jQuery
This is the kind of tutorial that makes it easy for you to create an animated navigation menu.
6. Learning jQuery: Fading Menu – Replacing Content
This is another tutorial that will teach you how to build a stunning navigation menu. This time you’ll learn what it takes to make the fading effect when it comes to menu items.
7. Create an apple style menu and improve it via jQuery
Follow this tutorial and learn how to build a sliding menu that looks simple but still has something special.
8. jQuery & CSS Example – Dropdown Menu
This tutorial explains how to make a simple dropdown menu.
9. Mega Drop Down Menus w/ CSS & jQuery
And this is how to create a mega dropdown menu that doesn’t look too busy.
10. Animated Navigation with CSS & jQuery
If you’d like to learn how to create an animated navigation menu without using Flash, then give this tutorial a try. It’ll teach you how to create simple and elegant roll over effects.
Learn how to create a Fisheye Menu, an expanding menu based on the MacOSX doc.
12. Creating a Floating HTML Menu Using jQuery and CSS
This tutorial will show you how to create a floating navigation menu. Make sure you scroll the live demo page to see why this navigation menu is so special. In short, whether you scroll to the top or the bottom of the page the navigation menu will follow the cursor.
13. Horizontal Scrolling Menu made with CSS and jQuery
This tutorial explains how to create a beautiful navigation menu that would scroll horizontally.
14. Create a Vertical Scrolling Menu with CSS and jQuery
And this tutorial teaches how to create an eye-catching navigation menu that would scroll vertically.
14. Tab Navigation with Smooth Horizontal Sliding Using jQuery
This guide provides tips on how to create a navigation menu that would slide horizontally (right to left). One would call this menu a drop left menu.
Learn what it takes to make a sliding menu button using jQuery. Such a button could be a sample of a vertical sliding menu.
17. Create a Good Looking Floating Menu with jQuery Easing
Find out how to create a floating navigation menu so that the menu item you click rises above the others.
18. jQuery Examples – Horizontal Accordion
This is an example of a neat sliding menu and of course tips on how to create it with jQuery.
19. Animated Drop Down Menu with jQuery
The title of the tutorial speaks for itself and the final result will impress you!
20. jQuery Tabbed Interface / Tabbed Structure Menu Tutorial
If you are a fan of tabs, then you’ll enjoy this tutorial because it teaches the basic tasks needed to build a tabbed navigation menu using jQuery.
21. Create a Smooth Tabbed Menu in jQuery
This is another guide on building a tabbed navigation menu. It’ll be a perfect solution for those who like clean and lightweight interfaces.
22. Halftone Navigation Menu With jQuery & CSS3
This tutorial offers a technique that will give you a stylish animated menu.
23. CSS and jQuery Tutorial: Fancy Apple-Style Icon Slide Out Navigation
If you follow this tutorial you’ll end up with an awesome navigation menu. The menu will work in the following way: when the visitor rolls over the menu item, a fancy icon will appear.
24. How to Build a Lava-Lamp Style Navigation Menu
Learn how easy it is to build a lava-lamp style menu.
25. A Fresh Bottom Slide Out Menu with jQuery
This tutorial provides tips on how to build an unusual navigation menu – when the visitor rolls over the menu button it’ll move up and show an additional info. This way the visitor will know if he/she should visit the page or not.
26. A Different Top Navigation
We’ve already listed a few tutorials on drop down menus. So, why don’t you read how to create a “drop up” menu?
27. A Simple and Beautiful jQuery Accordion Tutorial
This tutorial will be of interest to those of you who prefers small navigation menus. In short, it’ll teach you how to create a stylish accordion menu.
28. “Outside the Box” Navigation with jQuery
This is one more awesome tutorial that introduces the power of jQuery. It proves that navigation menus shouldn’t look boring and can be displayed in an original way.
29. Use Sprites to Create an Awesomeness-Filled Navigation Menu
This is the guide that’ll help you to create an animated navigation bar.
We hope you’ll find these tutorials helpful and in case you are looking for some inspiration before you decide what navigation menu would work best for your website, feel free to read the post entitled jQuery Navigation Solutions – Spectacular and Dynamic.
March 26th, 2010 at 1:11 am
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