Navbar With Centered Links

Links in the centre, logo hard against the left edge. That arrangement reads as a product you log into rather than a page you were sent, mostly because it is the arrangement every serious application uses. The dropdown opens on a spring and its items arrive a few milliseconds apart, which is enough to feel deliberate and not enough to make anyone wait.

The logo is a prop rather than baked markup, so putting your own mark in takes a line at the call site instead of a fork of the file. That matters more than it sounds: a navbar is the one block you will touch on every page, and one you have edited is one you have to re-edit every time this file changes. Best paired with a hero that starts below it, since the bar owns a solid surface and does not overlay artwork.