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Thursday, October 30, 2014

All the websites that you frequent have a navigation menu. These menus allow visitors to easily visit the different pages and without them, it would be a lot harder if not impossible to explore your favorites sites.


For this reason, many information architects, designers and user experience designers spend a lot of their time and resources coming up with user-friendly and aesthetically pleasing navigation systems.


Back in the day, sidebar menus were all the rage but they were ditched in favor of horizontal navigation bars. However, times have changed and now these menus are gaining popularity once again. This is due to sidebar menus being created nowadays with clever animation effects or large icons that enable them to conveniently slide in and out of view.


Sidebar menus are becoming more useful; especially when used in parallax-based and modern long one-page websites. In addition, photography templates and creative online portfolios are becoming more and more obsessed with this approach to easy navigation. This surge in popularity, for sidebar menus, is due to the convenience, density, and versatility that are inherent to these types of navigation menus.


Over the past couple of years, there have been mixed reviews about the vertical navigation and its limitations but hopefully, taking a look at the websites listed below will convince you that, when done well, these sidebar menus are an excellent addition to any site.


electrik.co


electrik.co


flipp.ca


flipp.ca


animeshmanglik.name


animeshmanglik.name


designcouncil.org.uk


designcouncil.org.uk


gv.com


gv.com


petershamnurseries.com


petershamnurseries.com


450gsm.com


450gsm.com


pluralapp.com


pluralapp.com


arbor-restaurant.co.uk


arbor-restaurant.co.uk


trask-industries.com


trask-industries.com


qideas.org


qideas.org


wacom.com


wacom.com


drawtoclick.com


drawtoclick.com


zindhai.com


zindhai.com


tripplanner.travelalberta.com


tripplanner.travelalberta.com


annualreport.belgacom.com


annualreport.belgacom.com








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