Wordpress Navigation Menus

Update: 10/14/09

To get a drop-down menu on my theme and have some options in the Admin area, here's what I did:

• Installed the CSS Dropdown Menu Plugin created by Isaac Rowntree
• Replaced the CSS included with the plugin with the Rob Glazebrooke's "Easy CSS Dropdown Menu" code. The demo of his menu.
  

I looked at several CSS drop-down menu options and went with Rob's because the code was much cleaner, did not have any inline javascript, and was almost painless to use.

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Top 5 WordPress Navigation Menu Tutorials

How To: Making a Categories Drop-Down Menu
* seems to be one of the simplest ways to create a drop-down menu. The header javascript is minimal and is only included to give IE 6 compatibility.

WordPress › Suckerfish Dropdown Menu « WordPress Plugins
- Thematic appears to have used the Suckerfish Dropdown menu.

WordPress › Wordpress CSS Drop-down Menu « WordPress Plugins
- multi-level drop-down
- Exclude pages
- Check a box to get the 'Home' link added automatically
- By Isaac Rowntree
(based on Stu Nicholl's final drop-down code)

Make your own WordPress drop down menu | The WordPress Guru | Tips & Pointers on Making a Killer CMS with WordPress
- Shows the HTML/CSS and Javascript needed to make it work.
- only issue is that the HTML gets a little messy with the JS behaviors added in.

How To Create a Dropdown Menu In WordPress | Van SEO Design
- Article from July 2009 about using the wp_list_pages() and wp_page_menu() template tags.