marquee-menu

Wireframe for The Marquee Club menu. Scalable percentage based version, without image replacement for logo.

by David Storey

HTML

<header>
    <a href="/"><h1>The Marquee Club</h1></a>
    <nav id="site-nav">
        <ul>
            <li><a href="#">About</a>
            </li>
            <li><a href="#">Events</a>
            </li>
            <li><a href="#">News</a>
            </li>
            <li><a href="#">Join</a>
            </li>
        </ul>
    </nav>
</header>

CSS

* {
    /* outline: 1px solid; */
    padding: 0;
    margin: 0;
}
body { background-color: #639A8F; }
header { 
    position: relative;
    
    font-family: futura, sans-serif;
    font-size: 18px;
    padding: 1.25em 0;
    
    background-color: white;
}

header h1 {
    position: absolute;
    left: 50%;
    
    width: 182px;
    height: 60px;
    padding: 1em 0;
    margin-left: -91px;
    
    font-size: 1em;
    white-space: nowrap;
    overflow: hidden;
    text-indent: 100%;
    
    background: url("https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/444684/assets/tmc-logo.png") no-repeat center;
    background-size: auto 78px;
}
nav ul {
    margin: 0 auto;
    height: 96px;
    text-align: center;
}
nav li {
    display: inline-block;
    width: 15%;
    max-width: 182px; 
    height: 100%;
    color: red;  
}
nav li a {
    display: inline-block;

    width: 80%;
    margin: .65em 0;
    padding: 1em 0;
    
    color: #B87333; /* copper */
    
    text-decoration: none;
    text-transform: uppercase;
}

nav li a:hover { outline: 2px solid;  }
nav li:nth-of-type(2) {
    margin-right: 147px;
}
nav li:nth-of-type(3) {
    margin-left: 147px;
}