Zcope is an online tool for tasks and projects management. The navigation menu is a variation on the classic “buttons menu”; in this case an arrow connects the selected item to the contents and leads user’s look downward.

SiteInspire is a typical inspirational gallery of web sites with a peculiar kind of tag cloud, made by mixing two types of  buttons: the dark ones represent the “real” tag associated with the site, the light gray ones represent the category the tag is associated with.

A classic: the drop-down menu (in this case graphic designer Anton Mircea’s portfolio).

Tab navigation in Web Agency Sunrise Design is well evidenced by the use of icons and ample spacing.

Creative Depart is, like Behance, a community of creatives, illustrators and graphic the have  the opportunity to show their works.  The navigation menu is very interesting because of it is that dynamically change the content below.

Jokeyphone is an application, still in Beta, with which you can see users video-recorded jokes, create channels, participate in contest and possibly upload your own jokes.  The flash menu is funnny: iconsand the  slight mouse over animation are very enjoyable.

The navigation in Claire Baxter portfolio is disposed in an apparently random and untidy way form that indeed anticipates the faux shabby style by which the entire web site is organized.

Interesting the combination of tabs and drop-down menu in the navigation menu of Inkd: tab indicates the main sections, while the drop-down menu (on mouse over) allows you to see all the subsections.  Even the color code is accurate: active tab is white, blue tab are those relating to the product itself, while grays tab are dedicated [...]

The navigation menu of this web site about Tara Hunt book’s The Whuffie Factor, is cleverly funny (the book is about online social networks). As you can see from the screenshot, the over and the selected state are identical.

Times Online’s breadcrumbs start with the Hamlet question “Where am I?”. The navigation menu effectively indicates to which level of navigation and section the page belongs to.

Creattica, s showcase of design and creation of prolific Evanto, shows  unusual tabs For those interested, I remember reading a tutorial on the subject on Psdtutsplus, a  famous web site dedicated to Photoshop. Obviously branded Evanto.

Changing the text in the menu with a photo is a nice idea. A quick loading in Ajax appears the first time you load an image to prevent unpleasant effects of vacuum.

The dropdown menus in Sourcebits are drawn as metal tabs, Apple style, which contain tiny icons.

Using oriented vertically texts in web. sites leaves me puzzled  I think this treatment should be reserved either in situations where the overall dimensions make it absolutely necessary or for short texts (e.g. often you see the Feedback button oriented vertically).

The language selection menu on BootB is rendered fairly special: all the options are already exploded, instead of being enclosed in a drop down menu.

Unusual shape for the tabs on Mywire, an aggregator of contents, news, post.

I like the site menu on Ifinstanbul (a turkish film festival) web site:  each menu item has a color which is used also for  layout and text elements.

I love the way these tabs smoothly change of color when you hover on them.

A classic horizontal tab navigation with 3 different states (selected, normal, mouse over) for each item. Fontshop is the foundry founded by Erik Spiekermann.

Floral menu and  layout for a company that deals with eco-sustainable projects.

Alltop navigation menu allows you to browse contents by topics or by letters.

Seed Magazine uses an original classic tagcloud, which becomes a vertical element that complements the text with the correspondent tags highlighted: an unusual navigation but very explicit and effective.

Commands acting on Babelgum showcase are many but well distributed. There are two intersting solutions: the baloon with information and additional options (mouse over on a single thumb) and the submenu expanding from above, when you activate functions such as sharing.

A successful combination of primary and secondary navigation in the inner sections of this famous Italian website.

I really like Razorbraille web site: for now I wanted to show you the frogs jumping on the main menu, look at you and fall down when you move the mouse over a tab.  Genius!