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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 – creating a secondary menu item


This is how you remove the News Archive link from the primary level in the Main Menu and show it as a sublevel link:

  1. To edit the Main Menu contents, navigate to Menus | Main Menu.

  2. Click on the title of the item you want to edit, News Archive.

  3. In the Details section, the Parent Item is set to Menu Item Root. This indicates it's a top level link. Change the Parent Item to News:

  4. Click on Save & Close. In the list of menu items in the Menu Manager, the new sublevel menu item is shown indented:

  5. To make sure the menu will display sublinks as intended, let's check a setting of the current menu module. Go to Extensions | Module Manager. In the Select Type drop-down list, select Menu. Click on the This Site menu module to edit it.

  6. Click on the Options tab and under Basic Options, check if End Level is set to All. This indicates all submenu levels will be displayed. Leave Show Sub-menu Items set to No, unless you want to always display the submenu items...