Using the Drop Down Navigation web part
I find the Drop Down Navigation web part very useful for adding quick links to a page. It generates a drop-down menu of URLs from a SharePoint list.
Once downloaded and installed on the server the web part becomes available to insert under the Miscellaneous category, as shown in the screenshot below:
Before I configure the web part I need to create a list of links. I’ll be creating a list of departments in the office and linking to their SharePoint sites. Once the list exists and has some links in it I can configure the web part to use it, as shown in the screenshot below:
And this is how it looks on the page:
You can download the Drop Down Navigation web part here: http://download.microsoft.com/download/f/8/0/f805e990-bf60-4296-b29b-e0e92941c76b/Drop%20Down%20NavigatorWebPart.zip