We are starting a new section called “Workshop for the Absolute Beginner Web Programmer” and this is the first tutorial in this series.

This article is targeted at the very novice web designer or a developer who is looking for a practical solution in building a horizontal menu build out of pure XHTML markup and styled using CSS. It also explains how to keep the markup for the navigation menu in to a separate PHP file and include it in to your main website. So lets create a CSS styled horizontal menu.