Here's a Navbar in the Vanilla Framework:
http://tjrdevelopment.org/Vanilla%20Navbar/
This navbar was made from an example in the Vanilla documentation above. The links were changed to addresses for my domain cover site, some SD video/audio examples I made and some other sub-sites I had laying around in my domain.
The first navbar row was constructed by translating the example HTML to SD elements. The second row is from the actual example HTML itself. I have tried to made the two rows look exactly alike.
If you couldn't get a Vanilla menu to work before, it was probably because you need the CSS and JS that is NOT supplied by SD for this framework. I had to dig it out from a "save web page" of the documentation site's page.
Attached is a .zip file for the .rsd and the exported HTML.
Modify the existing example for your own needs.