Horizontal Navigation; nine ways to skin a cat

In an attempt at being unique and innovative, deciding on your navigation structure and presentation can sometimes seem like the most challenging. If content is truly king, your navigation is your knights of the roundtable – it is the driving force for how users find information and ultimately interact with your site. So, in this web 2.0 era of over saturation on the web – is there any room for complete creative innovation or are we all simply doomed to putting a pretty face on an old paradigm?

Once you start perusing the web for inspiration rich entities, you quickly notice the very small world from which everyone seems to be working from – especially when you get as specific as horizontal navigation. At the end of an intense brainstorming session, we thought it would be fun to highlight some of the most commonly used techniques for designing horizontal navigation.

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