As with anything in life, you should not just settle with the first thing you see, which is one of the reasons I have created a small list of 5 great CSS Menu Generators, apart from CSS Menu Builders own menu generator.

Also last week CSS Menu Builder had a few problems and the site became unstable and unresponsive for pretty much a whole day, so it is important to have other resources to use, when this happens.

01. CSS Menu Maker

CSS Menu Maker has been around for a long time and offers both horizontal and vertical menus along with drop down menus.

Furthermore it also offers Dreamweaver plugins.

For more informaiton, please visit,
www.cssmenumaker.com

02. Pure CSS Menu

Pure CSS Menu offers an advanced menu builder, where you are able to create your own drop down menus, by selecting one of their various menu templates. Futhermore you are able to change the colors and add/remove items from your menu, all updated in realtime.

For more informaiton, please visit,
www.purecssmenu.com
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It looks like a fan made a video tutorial of how to use CSS Menu Builder, so I decided to post it here, so that you may use it, if you are having problems generating your css menus.

Click to watch on YouTube

By Smokscren

Update
22nd of April, 2010 @ 22.50 GMT
The problem with the site has now been fixed, never really figured out what happened, but the support staff at Bluehost fixed the problems, so now it should be running smoothly again.

Today, 22nd of April, 2010 @ 16.06 GMT, the site has been and still is experiencing quite a few internal server errors. I have been in contact with the hosting company’s support team and they say it has been fixed, so hopefully these errors will stop soon.

These things are unavoidable, and maybe even more on a shared hosting environment, but as the site does not generate income to support a VPS or Dedicated Server, I will remain with Bluehost, as their service has been very good so far and their support has been fantastic.

I will update this post, as soon as I see that the site is running normally again.

One of the questions people have frequently asked me, is how do I center the menu. My answer to all have been that I do not know how to do this in CSS, as the list element occupies the full width of its container. So the only way would be to manually set the width of the list element.

The other day I started thinking that this could be done dynamically by using javascript. Of course some people will probably not like this method, so you should stop reading now.

I have created 3 examples, for people using either MooTools, jQuery or just plain JavaScript, you can see them below as well as examples.

Please note that all 3 examples require that you set the ID of the containing div element, this is so that a background image can be added to this element.

Update while writing
Of course while writing this tutorial, I found an article which explains how to do this using CSS, but since I had already written the tutorial, you will get all 4 examples.
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