Here are some of the designs suggested by the community from my previous post where I requested suggestions for designs to implement as mojoPortal skins along with my analysis of them.
Thanks for all the great suggestions!
I'm still deciding which will be the 10 that I implement as skins in the coming weeks. I have some favorites among the current suggestions already but there is still time to suggest more. Even if you have no new suggestions I'm interested in your comments on these and which are your favorites. There seems to be a lot of fixed width tab menu designs. I wish I could find more diversity in the menu designs, though tabs are very cool and popular. Only the Earthy skin below has a flyout dynamic sub menu so it is likely to be one of my picks just because of this difference.
Earthy is a fixed width design with horizotal menu with flyout sub menu and earthy color scheme.
Stylevantage is a fixed width layout with horizontal menu from the same designer as the techmania skin.
Citrus Island is a fixed width design with tabbed menu also from the same designer as the techmania skin.
Rambling Soul 2 is a fixed width design with tabbed menu.
Rambling Soul 3 is a full width fluid layout design with horizontal menu.
The Daily Read is a fixed width design in the style of a newspaper. It has an interesting single level submenu that blends with the main tab menu.
Business 3 is a full width fluid layout design with horizontal menu.
Level 2 is a full width fluid layout design with an interesting horizontal menu and curved corners.
Light and Living is a fixed width design with tabbed menu.
Orange is a full width fluid layout design with horizontal menu and interesting header iimages and rounded corners.
Graformix Company is a full width fluid layout design with tabbed menu and interesting vertical sub menu.
Maeioska is a fixed width design with tab style menu.
Underground is a fixed width design with tab style menu.
Internet Broadcast is a fixed width design with tabbed menu.
Outdoor is a fixed width (rather narrow design) with horizontal menu and an interesting background image.
http://andreasviklund.com/templates/ has several nice designs. Unfortunately there aren't demos I can link to.
Cosmopolitan a narrow fixed width design, with interesting curves and tabbed menu.
Bright Side of Life a narrow fixed width design with tabbed menu.
New Horizon fixed width with expanding background and horizontal menu. Rather large top image area.
Terra Firma narrow fixed width horizontal menu.
Nautica 2.2 Liquid has fixed width borders, a fluid center section, and tabbed menu.
Small Studio is a fixed width rather plain design with vertical menu.
Cool Water is a fixed width design with horizontal menu and curved edges.
08 Gulona is a narrow fixed width design the color of split pea soup with horizontal menu.
The Hobbit is a narrow fixed width design with horizontal menu and interesting corner graphics. Not sure how well this lends itself to a CMS as there is nothning included for styling sub menus so it really is just designed for small sites with shallow menu.
Mother Earth is a fixed width design with horizontal main menu.
Refresh is a fixed width design with horizontal tabbed menu and curved corners.
Nature is a dark colored fixed with design with vertical menu.
Cold Day is a fixed width design with tabbed menu.
Dark Olive is a very narrow fixed width design with a large horse image at the top and tabbed menu with somewhat interesting sub menu.
Autumn is a very narrow fixed with design.
Pink Winter is a fixed with design.
Apple Core is a fluid layout with tabbed menu and rather small fonts.
Seasons Greetings is a fluid layout with translucent tabbed menu and a Christmas theme.
Red City is fixed width with expanding background and tabbed menu.
Aircraft Company is a fixed width design with horizontal menu using orange gradient.
Wordpress Premium is a fixed width design with a lot of rounded corner detail.