These menu layouts show you how to use a basic list and some CSS styling to create menus that look good and download quickly.

• Create Menus with Lists and CSS

This week I had guests over the weekend, then I got sick, and in the middle of all that, our back-end servers went down. So, even if I had had some time to work on my site, I couldn't do anything live.

This is a problem that is sure to come up for everyone building Web pages. There will come a day when you can't do what you had planned to do or wanted to do. So you'll have to do something else. For me, this normally turns into a day of information architecture. I focus on information architecture because my site topic is huge. And there is always something that could be better showcased or found more easily. I get really frustrated when I'm asked to write an article that I already have a series of articles on. That means that those articles are not being found.

But there are lots of things you can do on a Web site that don't involve design work. You could work on building content or run a link checker or find some new color palettes to try when you can start design work again.

What do you do to improve your site when access to it is down? Sometimes the best thing to do is step away from the computer and enjoy the unexpected free time.