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Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide

By : Eric Tiggeler
Book Image

Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide

By: Eric Tiggeler

Overview of this book

<p>Joomla! is one of the most popular open source Content Management Systems, actively developed and supported by a world-wide user community. It's a free, fun, and feature-rich tool for anyone who wants to create dynamic, interactive websites. Even beginners can deploy Joomla to build professional websites. Even though it can be challenging to get beyond the basics and build the site that meets your needs perfectly, this book will guide you through it all.</p> <p>Completely updated for Joomla! 3, this practical guide helps you to create professional and good-looking websites with Joomla!, whether you want to build a personal blog site or a full-featured company or club website.</p> <p>The Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide will help you to get started with Joomla! quickly. It's presented in an organized, easy-to-read manner. The book doesn’t focus on what Joomla! can do - it focuses on what you can do using Joomla!.</p> <p>You learn how to get Joomla! up and running, how to organize content, add new menus, add new features, change the design and much more. Real-life examples and tutorials will spark your imagination and show you what kind of professional, feature-rich websites any web builder can achieve with Joomla!. The focus is on clear instructions and easy-to-understand tutorials, with minimal jargon.</p> <p>Using the "Joomla! 3 Beginner’s Guide" you'll quickly gain the knowledge needed to build your own site, perfectly tailored to your specific needs.</p>
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Time for action – moving hyperlinks to the new menu


One way to fill a new menu is by creating brand new links (Menus | About CORBA | New). In this case, however, we'll move three existing links from the main menu to our new menu:

  1. In the Menu Manager, locate the Main Menu. Click on the name Main Menu to edit it.

  2. Select the menu items you want to move to the new menu. In this example, we've selected Who are CORBA? and Mission Statement. At the top of the screen, click on the Batch button to move the menu items:

  3. A popup screen called Batch process the selected menu items appears. In the Select Menu or Parent for Move/Copy drop-down list, scroll to About CORBA | Add to this menu. The text in the drop-down list changes to Add to this menu:

  4. Click on the Process button. A message is displayed saying Batch process completed successfully.

  5. Click on Menus in the left-hand menu to switch to the Menu Manager: Menus screen. This now displays two items in the Published column of the About CORBA menu

  6. Click the...