diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 872dc15..8ed8b4c 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -4,4 +4,4 @@ website-output
 __pycache__
 coverage.xml
 /gsitegen/*.page
-resources
+/gsitegen/resources
diff --git a/example/resources/About/test.txt b/example/resources/About/test.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e69de29
diff --git a/example/resources/style.css b/example/resources/style.css
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6c88f2d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/example/resources/style.css
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+ul {
+  list-style-type: none;
+  margin: 2px;
+  padding: 0;
+  overflow: hidden;
+  background-color: #333;
+  border-radius: 25px;
+  float: center;
+}
+
+li {
+  float: left;
+}
+
+li a {
+  display: block;
+  color: white;
+  text-align: center;
+  padding: 15px 35px;
+  text-decoration: none;
+  font-size: 3.0vmin;
+}
+@media only screen and (max-width: 1000px) {
+	li a {
+		display: block;
+		color: white;
+		text-align: center;
+		padding: 15px 35px;
+		text-decoration: none;
+	  font-size: 3.0vmax;
+	}
+}
+.active li a {
+  background-color: #04AA6D;
+}
diff --git a/gsitegen/About.page b/gsitegen/About.page
index f83d9a3..39db5aa 100644
--- a/gsitegen/About.page
+++ b/gsitegen/About.page
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
 >
   <link href="/style.css" rel="stylesheet">
-  <style>.about > li > a {  color: lightgreen;  }  </style>
 About page
-ee
diff --git a/gsitegen/Home.page b/gsitegen/Home.page
index 97a5aa7..39d5cda 100644
--- a/gsitegen/Home.page
+++ b/gsitegen/Home.page
@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
 >
   <link href="/style.css" rel="stylesheet">
-  <style>.home > li > a {  color: lightgreen;  }  </style>
 # Welcome!
-This is the homepage of our website.....
+This is the homepage of our website.
 >
   <b>HTML Hello</b>
 Another markdown line
diff --git a/gsitegen/generate.py b/gsitegen/generate.py
index ac78d11..c559d13 100644
--- a/gsitegen/generate.py
+++ b/gsitegen/generate.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import html
 from pathlib import Path
 
 #TODO re-think navigation bar. Think of way to add option to display navigation bar entry differently if you're currently on that page.
-def generateNavigationBar(lines):
+def generateNavigationBar(lines, pagetitle):
   global navbar
   navbar = E
   rawhtml = False
@@ -15,17 +15,27 @@ def generateNavigationBar(lines):
     #parse raw HTML
     rawhtml, navbar, htmlstring = parseRawHTML(navbar, line, htmlstring, rawhtml, id, len(lines))
 
-    #parse markdown
+    #parse navigation bar (custom format)
     if not rawhtml:
       if ";" in line:
         title, link = line.split(";", 1)
 
-		#div class for styling
-        navbar = navbar(HTML("<div class='" + title.replace(" ", "-").lower() + "'>"))
+		#mark currently open tab as active when it is open
+        if link.strip() == pagetitle + ".page":
+          navbar = navbar(HTML("<div class='" + "active" + "'>"))
+          link = ""
+        elif link.strip() == homepage + ".page":
+          print(pagetitle)
+          link = "/"
+        else:
+          link = link.replace(" ", "-").replace(".page", "").lower()
+
+        #div class for styling
+        navbar = navbar(HTML("<div class='" + pagetitle.replace(" ", "-").lower() + "'>"))
 
         #link and end of div
-        navbar = navbar.li(HTML("<a href='" + link.strip() + "'>" + title + "</a></div>"))
-
+        navbar = navbar.li(HTML("<a href='" + link.strip() + "'>" + title + "</a></div></div>"))
+  return navbar
 def generateFooter(lines):
   global footer
   footer = E
@@ -95,19 +105,27 @@ def generatePage(title, doc):
   if 'titles' not in globals():
     titles = []
 
-  if 'navbar' in globals():
+  navbarfile = Path(__file__).parent.joinpath('navbar')
+
+  if navbarfile.exists():
+    with navbarfile.open('r') as navbarfile:
+      navbar = generateNavigationBar(navbarfile.readlines(), title)
+
     if 'footer' in globals():
       pages.append(str(E.ul(navbar)) + str(doc) + str(E.ul(footer)))
     else:
       pages.append(str(E.ul(navbar)) + str(doc))
   else:
+    print("No 'navbar' file found, there will be no navigation bar.")
+
     if 'footer' in globals():
       pages.append(str(doc) + str(E.ul(footer)))
     else:
       pages.append(str(doc))
+
   titles.append(title)
 
-def writePages(homepage):
+def writePages():
   global pages
   global titles
     #TODO only delete files that aren't present in newest site generation
@@ -170,16 +188,9 @@ def writePages(homepage):
 def main():
 
   #if homepage is at Home.page, set homepage to "Home"
+  global homepage
   homepage = "Home"
 
-  navbarfile = Path(__file__).parent.joinpath('navbar')
-
-  if navbarfile.exists():
-    with navbarfile.open('r') as navbarfile:
-      generateNavigationBar(navbarfile.readlines())
-  else:
-    print("No 'navbar' file found, there will be no navigation bar.")
-
   footerfile = Path(__file__).parent.joinpath('footer')
 
   if footerfile.exists():
@@ -199,7 +210,7 @@ def main():
   print("Found " + str(pagescount) + " pages")
 
   #write all pages to files
-  writePages(homepage)
+  writePages()
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
   main()
diff --git a/gsitegen/navbar b/gsitegen/navbar
index 5be290d..f13db9e 100644
--- a/gsitegen/navbar
+++ b/gsitegen/navbar
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-About;/about
-Home;/
+About;About.page
+Home;Home.page