Smashing Magazine, a website for developers and designers, did a usability study in 2012 that found that sticky navs provided a 22% faster way to navigate the site.
The usability angle, believe it or not, is really straight-forward. You have to evaluate the decision to include or exclude a sticky nav based on two things: design and usability. While those were third-party menu bars, the idea was very similar to today’s sticky navs. Honestly, the trend may have sprung out of social networking sites that added a top navigation bar to their links, like the infamous DiggBar or StumbleUpon’s StumbleBar. I wish I could share how or why sticky navs became trendy in web design, but there’s not an obvious “this site did it first” or “these reasons led to the growth in sticky navs.” The closest we can probably get is that it’s grown with the growth of Bootstrap, since that framework is used by many sites and the sticky nav is a built-in option. It’s also used on Facebook and on Google+, so you’ve likely experienced it before. You can see the sticky nav in action here on our site or on the recently redesigned Fanspeak site. Essentially, it’s a menu that follows you as you scroll down the page, keeping the top navigation accessible no matter where you are. The Bootstrap framework contains a built-in “fixed navbar”, also known as a sticky navigation or follow menu. Please note: we recommend creating a duplicate copy of your theme first in order to ensure no mistakes are made to the live version.As more sites that we design use the powerful combination of WordPress and Bootstrap, we’re taking advantage of every design and tech feature at our disposal.
PARALLAX MENU BAR CODE
If you find the need to make small adjustments to these areas, you can try adding some custom CSS to the bottom of the file (Online store > Themes > Actions > Edit code > Assets > ) and play around with the values – 12px is what is currently applied. The 'Logo top padding' and ' Menu top padding' settings have been removed in the 6.0.3 release to provide a more consistent and reliable Header layout. You can use this setting to push your content further down to page so that it's not obstructed by a large navigation bar.
If your navigation bar becomes quite tall (either from a large logo or several links), then it might start to cover your main content. The content area refers to the entire section below the main navigation bar. This setting is found in the following themes: Retina, Parallax If your logo is fairly tall, you may want to push down your menu a bit to be centered with the logo.
If you find that your logo is small and not naturally inline with your menu, you can add some padding above the logo to nudge it's position a bit lower. This setting is found in the following themes: Retina, Parallax, Mobilia From the Header section in the Theme Editor (customize > sections > header), there are 3 values that allow you to fine-tune the spacing around your logo, navigation, and the page content that appears below the navigation bar.
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