Navigation menus are, of course, important for usability purposes and creating a user-friendly website, but they also provide opportunities to add some visual appeal to the design. In this post we’ll showcase 40 examples of attractive navigation menus, including a variety of different types and styles.

Love them or hate them, horizontally scrolling websites are scattered around the net, and there’s some fantastic examples. Unlike the traditional layout of a website that scrolls up and down, horizontal websites flip things around and scroll from left to right. Sometimes they’re enhanced with Javascript to offer an even richer user experience, such as auto-scrolling effects. Check out this collection of 30 inspiring examples, and follow on to a hand full of brilliant tutorials that give an insight into the theory and practice of creating a horizontal site of your own.

Quickie CSS3 Tricks with Fallbacks CSS3 can do some seriously neat stuff. Just check out some of the crazy 3D stuff you can do in WebKit. But as we all know, we need to be careful with what we choose to do with it. The most cutting edge techniques are fun to play with, but since since only a sliver of browsers support them fully, we can only use them in circumstances where they fall back to otherwise perfectly acceptable styling. Let’s look at a couple of quick, simple, cheezy examples.

Grunge In Web Design: Samples And Best Practices With the major focus for web design lately shifting to the minimal designs, apple inspired designs and clean cut layouts, it’s about time someone stands up and showcases the awesomeness that is grunge! View

These websites are selected as the best CSS Websites based on the creativity, innovation and talent among the best designers, studios, and agencies of the world. The rating depends on design 50% creativity 25% content 15% usability 10%

The Analysis of Choosing the Right Images and Stock Photography Sites The use of imagery for websites is a great way of feeding your users with information, allowing them to visualize the scenario which sometimes words can’t describe. These images should be impactful, uncluttered, appropriately sized and elicit desired emotional impact. Great images makes a great deal of difference as it confirms that what you are selling is real.

50 Free Slideshow, Gallery And Lightboxes Scripts For Web design projects, you may find yourself sometimes scrounging around for a simple yet useful image gallery and slideshow. But imagine having a huge collection of AJAX, JavaScript, Lightbox, CSS and Flash-based image galleries at your fingertips. Hopefully, this post will do the trick and provide all the resources you might need. View

Floom – Blinds-effect MooTools slideshow. There are two ways of setting Floom up. One is the object way, where you specify the image url and the caption using the key-value notation.The second one is by simply passing a element collection, ie. $$(‘#blinds img’), where the passed element has to be the actual image collection. In this scenario the caption is the elements title attribute.