These home pages feature responsive vertical navigation menus, built entirely in HTML and CSS. Photography-centered, they enable the user to focus on a single call to action.
Vertical menus allow for a determined vertical viewport, which can nicely frame a large home page image. This layout is great for simple sites that are looking to showcase stunning images.
With so many templates, themes, and frameworks out there, many people never need to see the code behind the web projects they create. Learning to build web pages from scratch seemed like an intuitive place to start for me. I appreciate the tools that make site building a breeze all the more for having built pages "from scratch!"