I've lost inspiration lol. I don't know where to go with this; I need a menu; but I want to avoid the classic side navigation bar. What do you think would be a good way to fit in a menu and some content into the header design?

u can make/use any style of menu/buttons/icons

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Use the same colour sceme ( white text on a white to blue gradient)

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Use the wavey shape for your button shapes so instead of having a button with a stieght top, it could be like this:

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in that picture i make it only a suggestion, example

This is just a quick knockup, which you are free to ignore but I think the following could turn out quite cool:



Each of your main links is given a large box in the middle of the page ~ it could really help them stand out, and will be very easy for your users to navigate to the section they want to go to.

When they have clicked one of the main categories the subcategories could then display like below:



Again, standout categories can go down the side, with just a normal horizontal menu running beneath the main logo.

Just my $0.02

Cheers,

HOW ABOUT A SIMPLE GRAPHIC BUTTON