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Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide Second Edition

You're reading from  Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide Second Edition

Product type Book
Published in Jul 2014
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781783981502
Pages 476 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Author (1):
Eric Tiggeler Eric Tiggeler
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. A New and Easy Way to Build Websites 2. Getting Joomla! Up and Running 3. First Steps – Getting to Know Joomla! 4. Web Building Basics – Creating a Site in an Hour 5. Small Sites, Big Sites – Organizing Your Content Effectively 6. Creating Killer Content – Adding and Editing Articles 7. Welcoming Your Visitors – Creating Attractive Home Pages and Overview Pages 8. Helping Your Visitors Find What They Want – Managing Menus 9. Opening Up the Site – Enabling Users to Log in and Contribute 10. Getting the Most out of Your Site – Extending Joomla! 11. Creating an Attractive Design – Working with Templates 12. Attracting Search Engine Traffic – SEO Tips and Techniques Keeping the Site Secure Creating a Multilingual Site Pop Quiz Answers Index

Time for action – create a new, empty menu


In Main Menu of the example site, three items are suitable to be shown in another menu. These links are of interest to visitors who want to know more about the CORBA organization. Let's create a new menu, About CORBA, so that we can move the menu links Who are CORBA?, Mission Statement, and Contact there.

  1. Navigate to Menus | Menu Manager. Click on New.

  2. In the Menu Manager: Add Menu screen, enter a title name in the Title field; this is the name that can be displayed with the menu. Fill the Menu type field too; this is the name that Joomla uses to identify the menu and it won't be visible on the frontend. When you enter a name, Joomla will save it without spaces or special characters. In the following example, we have entered About CORBA both as menu Title and Menu type. After clicking on Save, you'll notice the Menu type text has automatically changed to about-corba, as shown in the following screenshot:

  3. Description is optional although it can be...

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