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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: displaying Main Menu links in the Top Menu


Let's set the Top menu module to show the Main Menu contents:

  1. Go to Extensions | Module Manager. Locate the menu module named Top and click its name to edit it.

  2. Click on the Options tab and under Basic Options, click the Select Menu drop-down box to select Main Menu (instead of the current selection, Top):

  3. Make sure End Level is set to All and set Show Sub-menu Items to Yes. This way, the menu will display submenu links, not just the main level links. Save your changes.

  4. Have a look at the frontend to see the output. As you can see, the top menu now displays the contents of the main menu. Hover your mouse over the News link to see the drop-down links working—even if there's only one submenu link (that is, the News Archive link) right now.

Have a go hero – clean up menus and menu links

At this moment the site contains two menu modules displaying the same menu contents. Both the Top menu module and the menu module called This Site display...