Quite simply, you prepare your menu graphics in a consistent size, with the same background color. However, it gets a little more complicated if you wish to create a liquid design, or have your bar stretch across the page for any resolution. It gets even more complicated if you want the liquid design, but want your bar to have a pattern, or have shading. I will go into how to create a liquid menu bar using a background image later in this article. Top menu from the PRC site.
Simple categories make it easy for visitors to move from section to section.
Side menus, shown below, direct the user groups from inside the main section. Side menus I really like side menus. In the old days, we were trying to grab every horizontal pixel we could for content. However, we face the opposite problem today. You may be thinking that I have finally gone over the edge with that last statement, or that you misunderstood what I was saying.