You'll be learning how to create a neat block navigation menu. These are quite popular on websites and provide a very clean organized feel.
Create your document, the background should be white. Now create a new layer. Then select the rectangular marquee tool and select a small rectangle, like this.
Fill this box with white (to reset your colors palatte press d, then to set your foreground to white press x). Right click your new layer and then go to Blending Options, add these settings.
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If you don't know how to change the gradient colors double click the gradient, then double click the tick at either side to change the color.
The color on the left is #D4D6D7, the color on the right is #92B1FF
To copy this layer for the links, press ctrl+j. After adding some text here's my navigation menu.
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