30 Free CSS Based Navigation Menus

After 20 Popular CSS Online Tools and Generators, this is a new full list of CSS based navigation menus collection, it includes 30 various styles of navigation menus, vertical menus, Javascript powered menus and tab menus. Navigation menus is one of important elements for web design. SmashingMagazine has already published a great post to showcase all modern and beautiful CSS based styling menus, check it out here to see what other expert designers did. And below is the list of usable and free CSS menu techniques and resources that you can use for your blogs or websites. Probably some of them you have already seen before, but it is an round-up and can be your further reference. Cheers.

25 Rounded Corners Techniques with CSS

Rounded corners is one of the most popular and frequently requested CSS techniques even the father of internet Google also launch the rounded corners style markup with her Google Adsense and let users to custom their ads recently. Actually, there are a lot of methods and techniques to create rounded corners with Cascading Stylesheets. Some are quite simple just need pure CSS, and a part of them need 2 to 4 background corner images and Javascript. So i select some quality and usable rounded corners with CSS techniques for you to have the best choices.

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A List Apart: Articles: Sliding Doors of CSS

The Sliding Doors Technique

Beautifully crafted, truly flexible interface components which expand and contract with the size of the text can be created if we use two separate background images. One for the left, one for the right. Think of these two images as Sliding Doors that complete one doorway. The doors slide together and overlap more to fill a narrow space, or slide apart and overlap less to fill a wider space, as the diagram below shows:

[Diagram shows two sets of doors. The first set is pushed together to take up less space. The second set is spaced apart to occupy a wider space.]

With this model, one image covers up a portion of the other. Assuming we have something unique on the outside of each image, like the rounded-corner of a tab, we don’t want the image in front to completely obscure the image behind it. To prevent this from happening, we make the image in front (left-side for this example) as narrow as possible. But we keep it just wide enough to reveal that side’s uniqueness. If the outside corners are rounded, we should make the front image only as wide as the curved portion of the image:

[Diagram shows an isolated narrow left-side image with rounded top-left corner, then repeats that same image placed in front of a right-side image with a rounded right-side corner.]

If the object grows any larger than the width shown above, due to differing text or type size changes, the images will get pulled apart, creating an ugly gap. We need to make an arbitrary judgment about the amount of expansion we’ll accommodate. How large do we think the object might grow as text is resized in the browser? Realistically, we should account for the possibility of our tab text increasing by at least 300%. We need to expand the background images to compensate for that growth. For these examples we’ll make the back image (right-side) 400×150 pixels, and the front image 9×150 pixels.

Keep in mind that background images only show in the available “doorway” of the element to which they’re applied (content area + padding). The two images are anchored to the outside corners of their respective elements. The visible portions of these background images fit together inside the doorway to form a tab-like shape:

[Diagram shows both images with extra height added to the bottom. The right-side image also has extra width added to the left. The only portions which remain visible fit together perfectly to form the illustion of a tab-like shape.]

If the tab is forced to a larger size, the images slide apart, filling a wider doorway, revealing more of each image:

[Diagram shows the two images pulled apart slightly to create a wider tab, as well as a slightly taller vertical height to reveal more of each image. Since both background images have allowances for expansion, the the illusion is that the tab itself expanded naturally with the text contained inside.]

For this example, I used Photoshop to create two smooth, slightly three-dimensional, custom tab images shown at the beginning of this article. For one of the tabs, the fill was lightened and the border darkened — the lighter version will be used to represent the “current” tab. Given this technique’s model for left and right tab images, we need to expand coverage area of the tab image, and cut it into two pieces:

[Left- and right-side images]

The same thing needs to happen with the lighter current tab image. Once we have all four images created, (1, 2, 3, 4) we can jump into the markup and CSS for our tabs.

Dynamic Drive DHTML Scripts- Chrome CSS Drop Down Menu

Version 2.0 adds the following new
features:

• Ability to “left”, “center”, or “right” align the menu items
  easily, just by modifying the CSS property “text-align”.
• Added an optional “swipe down” transitional effect for
  revealing the drop down menus.
• Menu items change color (via background image change) when the
  mouse rolls over them.
• Support for multiple Chrome menus on the same page.
• HTML for Chrome menu streamlined, by removing the
  onMouseover/out event handlers in favor of the HTML attribute “rel” instead.

woork: Five web 2.0 CSS menu tutorials

This post is a compilation of the most visited posts on my Blog about “web design” topic. It includes five CSS menu tutorials inspired to some Web 2.0 sites with round corners, scriptaculous and ajax effects.

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IRIS Design » Archive » Web 2.0 style buttons

Nowadays Web 2.0 style becomes more popular. Every day tons of sites which has simple, bright and very interesting things, appear in Network. There are no standards about creating any Web 2.0 elements, but we have several typical features, for example and clean colors, many gradients.

Today I want to show you how to create Web 2.0 styled button using Adobe Photoshop CS2.

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DHTML Slider

DHTML Slider
The CARPE Slider 1.5
BY TOM HERMANSSON SNICKARS
This cross-browser slider is easy to incorporate in your web site. It’s designed with a combination of (X)HTML, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and JavaScript. They are fast and compact. They do not contain any image elements or applets. This minimizes the number of server requests and keeps the page size to a minimum. The sliders below uses the default stylesheet, except for the colors. They differ a little in funtionality though. The slider is a good alternative to the text input tag in (X)HTML, when the expected value is limited to a certain interval and/or when only a limited number of values in the interval are allowed. Adding a slider is as easy as adding an HTML element. Settings are easy to modify with a few attributes of the slider element. No javascript is needed within the document body. The slider can be styled with Cascading Style Sheets CSS (inline, in the document head or in a separate file).