diff --git a/_includes/nav.html b/_includes/nav.html
index 42a537c..c94799b 100644
--- a/_includes/nav.html
+++ b/_includes/nav.html
@@ -15,7 +15,13 @@
         {% assign active = "" %}
       {% endif %}
 
-      <li class="{{nav.class}} nav.url-{{ nav.url | slugify | default: "home" }}{{ active }}" role="menuitem">
+      {% if nav.nav %}
+        {% assign navgroup = " nav-group" %}
+      {% else %}
+        {% assign navgroup = "" %}
+      {% endif %}
+
+      <li class="nav-{{ nav.url | slugify | default: "home" }}{{ nav.class }}{{ navgroup }}{{ active }}" role="menuitem">
         {% if nav.url %}
           <a href="{{ nav.url | prepend: site.baseurl }}">{{ nav.title }}</a>
         {% else %}
diff --git a/assets/default.scss b/assets/default.scss
index 1aa4303..2447eda 100644
--- a/assets/default.scss
+++ b/assets/default.scss
@@ -40,6 +40,9 @@ $content-width:    60em;
 // Default blog style
 @import "lib/blog.sass";
 
+// Navbar (check out lib/navbar.sass for customizable options)
+@import "lib/navbar.sass";
+
 // Minima also includes a mixin for defining media queries.
 // Use media queries like this:
 // @include media-query($on-palm) {
diff --git a/assets/lib/navbar.sass b/assets/lib/navbar.sass
index 927f282..cbf8bc7 100644
--- a/assets/lib/navbar.sass
+++ b/assets/lib/navbar.sass
@@ -1,20 +1,147 @@
-#branding
-  line-height: 2.4
+//// Defaults
 
-.hgroup
-  margin: 0 auto
+// Padding defaults
+$nav-padding: 0.75ex !default
+$nav-padding-ratio: 2.5 !default
+$nav-padding-y: $nav-padding !default
+$nav-padding-x: $nav-padding-y * $nav-padding-ratio !default
 
-nav
+// Submenu defaults
+$nav-marker-opacity: 0.5 !default
+$nav-marker-right: "⯈" !default
+$nav-marker-down: "▾" !default
 
-  ul
+// Color defaults
+$nav-color: transparent !default
+$nav-text-color: $text-color !default
+$nav-menu-color: $grey-color-light !default
+$nav-menu-top-color: $nav-menu-color !default
+$nav-menu-top-text-color: $nav-text-color !default
+$nav-highlight-color: $brand-color !default
+$nav-highlight-text-color: #fff !default
+
+// Styling defaults (shadow and rounded radius)
+$nav-menu-shadow: 2px 2px 2px rgba(black, 0.125) !default
+$nav-menu-radius: 3px !default
+
+// Animation timing defaults
+$nav-animation: 150ms !default
+$nav-menu-animation: $nav-animation * 2 !default
+
+nav.menu
+  position: relative
+  z-index: 100
+
+  // Cleafix hack to make nav act more like block
+  // without having to set an overflow property
+  // (which would hide menus)
+  &::after
+    content: ""
+    display: table
+    clear: both
+
+  // Remove list styles
+  ul, li
+    transition: all $nav-animation
     list-style: none
+    margin: 0
+    padding: 0
+
+  a, span
+    transition: all $nav-menu-animation
+    display: block
+    color: $nav-text-color !important
+    padding: $nav-padding-y $nav-padding-x
+    text-decoration: none !important
+
+  ul
+    background: $nav-color
+    float: left
+
+    ul
+      position: absolute
+      left: 0
+      top: 100%
+      visibility: hidden
+      opacity: 0
+      box-shadow: $nav-menu-shadow
+
+      li
+        &:last-child
+          border-radius: 0 0 $nav-menu-radius $nav-menu-radius
+      
+        &.nav-group:hover
+          border-radius: 0 0 0 $nav-menu-radius
+
+        ul li:first-child
+          border-radius: 0 $nav-menu-radius 0 0
+
+      ul
+        left: 100%
+        top: 0
 
-    > li
-      padding: 0
+  li
+    float: left
+    position: relative
+
+    > ul
+      a, span
+        line-height: 0
+
+    &:hover
+      background: $nav-menu-color
+
+      li
+        background: $nav-menu-color
+
+      > ul
+        // Activate the immediate submenu
+        visibility: visible
+        opacity: 1
+
+        a, span
+          line-height: inherit
+          margin: 0 #{$nav-padding-x * -1}
+          padding: $nav-padding-y #{$nav-padding-x * 2}
+
+        li:last-child a, span
+          margin-bottom: #{$nav-padding-y * -4}
+          padding-bottom: #{$nav-padding-y * 5}
+
+    li
+      width: 100%
+      white-space: nowrap
+      min-width: 10rem
+
+      &:hover,
+      li:hover
+        background: $nav-highlight-color
+
+        > a
+          color: $nav-highlight-text-color !important
+
+  > ul > li
+
+    &:hover
+      background: $nav-menu-top-color
 
       > a
-        display: block
-        padding: 0 1em
-        transition: all 0.15s
-        -moz-transition: all 0.15s
-        -webkit-transition: all 0.15s
+        color: $nav-menu-top-text-color !important
+  
+    &.nav-group > a
+      &::after
+        opacity: $nav-marker-opacity
+        content: $nav-marker-down
+        margin-left: 1ex
+
+  li .nav-group > a
+    &::before
+      opacity: $nav-marker-opacity
+      content: $nav-marker-right
+      float: right
+
+//// Make the masthead a menu
+// It's also possible to extend nav.menu for other nav elements
+// ...or make nav elements with a class of menu in document bodies too
+.masthead nav
+  @extend nav.menu
diff --git a/assets/main.scss b/assets/main.scss
index 3f148a0..6a375a2 100644
--- a/assets/main.scss
+++ b/assets/main.scss
@@ -14,9 +14,6 @@ $on-laptop:        48em;
 // Import gridlex (see http://gridlex.devlint.fr/ for docs)
 @import "vendor/gridlex";
 
-// Import various CSS libs we use
-@import "lib/navbar";
-
 // Import styles from site.sass or site.scss or fall back to default.scss
 {% assign _site_style = site.static_files | where_exp: "item", "item.path contains '/assets/site.'" %}
 {% if _site_style[0] %}