Responsive navigation menu is the main part of responsive web design. While designing a website it is an important task to keep navigation menu on its proper place for different screen resolutions so that user’s main focus remains on the content of the website. For mobile phone users, the websites must be designed in such a way that the navigation don’t hide the content when we open up a website.

There are certain plugins available to create responsive navigation menus in seconds but if you want to learn it yourself then here are few tutorials to help you make your own responsive navigation menu.

Responsive Navigation Menu

By Hongkiat – [Demo] – [View tutorial]

This Responsive Navigation Menu by Hongkiat uses CSS3 media queries and jQuery to display the navigation properly on small screen devices like smartphones.

Code a Responsive Navigation Menu

By DesignShack – [Demo] – [View tutorial]

DesignShack has written an excellent tutorial to code a responsive navigation menu from scratch. This responsive navigation menu resembles the style of CSS-Tricks.com.

Convert a Menu to Dropdown for Small Screens

By Chris Coyier – [Demo] – [View tutorial]

The latest trend for responsive navigation menu is to convert the menus to dropdown for small screens as dropdown consumes less space of your device and makes more content visible when a user opens up a website.

Progressive and Responsive Navigation by SmashingMagazine

By Jeremy Hixon – [View tutorial]

Here is a step by step guide to creating a responsive menu using HTML5, CSS and jQuery.

Responsive Navigation by TutsPlus

By Ian Yates – [Demo] – [View tutorial]

This tutorial is explained with the help of videos to make you understand it better. This navigation menu converts itself to drop down menu for smaller screen resolutions.

Responsive Drop Down Navigation Menu

By Eric Hansel – [Demo] – [View tutorial]

Responsive drop down navigation menu by Eric Hansel works in all modern desktop browsers without JavaScript.

A Simple, Responsive, Mobile First Navigation

By Ian Yates – [Demo] – [View tutorial]

TutsPlus has written an excellent tutorial for responsive navigation menu giving the importance to content on mobile devices. There is no JavaScript used in this tutorial. It is purely CSS based tutorial.