Navigation is among the most important elements of a website’s design. Effective navigation allows visitors to quickly and easily find desired content, keeping them on your site.
The session will begin with a review of navigation menu best practices including structure, location and usability. Then we will move onto how you can improve your navigation menu with modifications to your theme’s CSS stylesheet. We will cover:
- using and styling submenus
- adding icons to navigation items
- changing the formatting of hovered or active items
- declaring a menu area in theme files
- declaring CSS ids and classes when adding a menu area to a theme
images, subtitles, and hover elements
