In this chapter, we learned a lot about creating user-friendly navigation through Joomla! menus. This is what we covered:
By default, new menu links are added to the bottom of the menu link list. You can move menu links up and down in the Menu Item Manager.
You can set up a second menu that functions completely independent from the main menu. That way, you can move links that don't fit the main menu to a separate, less prominent position. You can create as much separate menus on your website as you like.
Menus can be more than one level deep. By assigning a parent item to a menu link, you create a submenu item.
You can also create interrelated menus, such as a main menu showing parent links and a secondary menu on a different page position that automatically shows child links.
Submenus aren't the only way to make secondary content visible. Main links can point to overview pages with (automatically generated) links to content from those sections or categories.
To create hyperlinks in an...