I was firstly drawn to Mikey Burton’s portfolio, attracted by his beautiful illustrations and identity works. Then I’ve started admiring the unparalleled simplicity of his portfolio’s navigation menu: a simple list of gray links, with an open/close ajax effect, whose aim is just helping users to browse in the most efficient way.

This website’s menu certainly is not a scene stealer and it works well only if displayed with some strong graphic assets (otherwise it will look miserable, I presume), but the pros are:

• easy to build and to use;
• basically it’s html text so it is also light on code and kbs;
• it keeps track of the visited items which are displayed as stroked links.