Looking at the navigation bar can give you a snapshot idea of what a site is offering, as well as what it’s expecting in return. It’s an abbreviated definition, a road to multiple destinations, and the outstretched hand of invitation to any and all visitors who have happened upon the site in question.

And some manage this complicated little two-step in masterful fashion. This is an article dedicated to those surefooted dancers of web design and development who’ve managed to put a new spin on an ultra-trending trope: The Fixed Navigation.

Fixed navigation bars can scroll down a page with you, reappear panel by panel, collapse and expand at the click of a mouse, interact with users as they browse, or skulk discreetly in the corners of the screen. The versatility of these sticky little boogers (ew) is the imperative of their attraction. Furthermore, it’s the trademark of the site which they inhabit.

Without further ado, we present a series of scintillating sites featuring finely tuned fixed navigation menus.

You might also like to take a look at these amazing examples of fullscreen responsive menus.

The Music Bed (Fixed Side Navigation)

Names for Change (Sliding Fixed Top Navigation)

Weecom (Animated Navigation)

Visage (Fixed Top Navigation)

Prollective (Three-Line Fixed Top Navigation)

Tawny Jordan Ring (Fixed Bottom Navigation)

1Bite2Go (Three-Line Fixed Side Navigation)

Andy Jones (Animated Fixed Top Navigation)

Nishiyama (Fixed Top Navigation)

CTP (Three-Line Fixed Top Navigation)

Grovemade (Fixed Top Navigation)

Papertelevision (Three-Line Fixed Top Navigation)

OASIS (Fixed Top Navigation)

The Offshore Partners (Fixed Top Navigation Button)

A Curated Anthology of Donuts (Fixed Top Navigation)

AWARD (Sliding Fixed Top Navigation)

Museekly (Fixed Side & Bottom Navigation)

Charlie Clark (Fixed Top Navigation)

Script & Seal (Fixed Top Transparent Navigation)

Gareth Emery (Fixed Side & Bottom Navigation)

The Conference by Media Evolution 2014 (Three-Line Fixed Side Navigation)

Wifeel (Animated Fixed Top Navigation)

Brit + Co. (Fixed Top & Side Navigation)

Kurka Wolna (Fixed Top Navigation)

Poolhouse (Fixed Top Navigation)

Knoed Creative (Three-Line Fixed Top Navigation Button)

Jonathan da Costa (Three-Line Fixed Side Navigation)

teamgeek (Fixed Side Navigation)

Playground Inc. (Fixed Side Navigation)

Squid Compression (Fixed Top Navigation Button)

Awd Agency (Fixed Side Navigation)