A quick and easy navigation system (it even looks good)

There are many different ways to incorporate a horizontal nav bar including using Javascript, dropdown menus, text and image links. The following is one example of the most basic horizontal navigation, using text and css. I'll give you a two step approach.

  1. Create the navigation code
    Start by editing the page you want the navigation to appear on. Add a navigation div id followed by links to the pages of your site to which the navigation will point (in the following example, I just made them do nothing). Example:

    <div id="nav">
    <a href="#">home</a> | 
    <a href="#">about</a> | 
    <a href="#">gallery</a> | 
    <a href="#">credits</a> | 
    <a href="#">demographics</a> | 
    </div>
    

  2. Add navigation elements to the Stylesheet
    Add #nav style information to your stylesheet. Adjust for padding, margin, font, background color, border, and link style. For example,

    #nav {
    font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;
    font-size: small;; 
    padding:5px;
    margin:0px;
    background-color:#71B8D5;
    color:#fff; 
    border-bottom: 1px solid #6F8C8F; 
    }
    
    #nav a { 
    color:#fff;
    text-decoration:none;
    }
    #nav a:hover {
    text-decoration:underline;
    }
    

That's all there is to it!
Here's a working example of navigation created using steps 1 and 2 given above.