As I struggle to find purpose for navbars I can't mentally see, an idea crossed my mind: what if navbars shouldn't be navigation, but taglines?
Geometrically, the title of the website is right above the navbar. The title alone doesn't tell a lot to people who come to the website what the website is about. Surely, "Virtual Curiosities" is an awesome name, but it doesn't tell you exactly what kind of website it is. It could be a Matrix fansite. It could be someone's blog, or a portal about random fun facts—like, did you know?: factoids aren't little facts, they are actually the opposite of facts!—, or perhaps even worse: it could mislead someone to think it's about smartphones! Surely there should be a way to make it more clear that this is about PCs? I already have a PC as favicon! What else could I do?
What if I wrote "PC Tutorials" under the site's title? That's a great description. But it's not all this website is about. There is also a lot of definitions for all sorts of computer terms, so I guess "PC Tutorials & Computer Dictionary"? What about my reviews! "PC Tutorials, Dictionary, & Reviews." At this point, it's starting to sound like the links in a navbar!
What if instead of whatever unorganized mess I created in my navbar, I just wrote an actual phrase that described what the website is about, and then turned that phrase into hyperlinks. That could be more natural and useful than what I have currently.
One problem is what if I have a navbar item that doesn't fit in a phrase? For example, "Contact", or "About"? That doesn't sound like it belongs to a navbar, but maybe there is a way to design it in, like giving it a different color to make it appear detached from the phrase.
I thought I could just have an "and more!" in the phrase and that becomes a menu with all this other stuff, but that's probably not a good idea. I don't think someone searching for contact or information about the website would look into such "and more!" link that sounds like it lists more stuff the website provides, rather than things about the website itself.