I'm working on my own site and as you know its hard designing your own site,

 

I am happy with the layout so far and the colours etc. etc. etc.

 

My navigation is proving hard to get right (in my eyes anyway) I only have four main pages that I want to have in the main navigation . I know that on the other pages I'll have a simple left hand column navigation for sub categories but the top one is causing me design pain.

 

 

Hope you have some suggestions

 

Hope you have some suggestions

 

 

Put the links in the darker blue bit at the top; and then maybe change the background colour of them on rollover (with each link in a different 'box')

 

James.

thanks , i think i agree

I think you could convert these plain links to, say, aqua-style buttons or paper pieces, add volume and so on.

I personally think that you need to do exactly what it says on the tin - something clean and tidy. Therefore, I'd suggest maybe a paler blue than your background. I think it's difficult to do something interesting with your navigation when you have a strong background colour.

So I have had a go at simply displaying the navigation.

 

Any comments or suggestions?

 

Here is another print screen

 

 

 

 

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I personally do not like your second screen i would take something like this ...

the color black will never match to your kind of blue ...

I think your big problem is your large header graphic "We develop clean..." - it overshadows your nav links. I'd suggest putting nav link in the same line as your logo as your later example, use a some contrasting colours as well to make the links atnd out more.

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