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Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide Second Edition

You're reading from   Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide Second Edition Build, develop, and manage a fully functioning, professional looking, and feature-rich website with the Joomla! CMS

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2014
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ISBN-13 9781783981502
Length 476 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. A New and Easy Way to Build Websites 2. Getting Joomla! Up and Running FREE CHAPTER 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 A. Keeping the Site Secure B. Creating a Multilingual Site C. Pop Quiz Answers Index

Using the horizontal drop-down menu as the main menu

In Joomla 3.5, the horizontal top menu is in fact the most important site menu. Not only is it visually prominent, it's also the menu that will remain visible even if the website is shown on the small screen of a smartphone or tablet computer. Joomla's default template, Protostar, is set up to automatically adapt to such small screens. However, the content layout does change when the site is displayed on a smaller screen—you can try that out now by resizing the browser window:

Using the horizontal drop-down menu as the main menu

As you can see, the top menu remains visible, but the right-hand side column (containing the This Site menu) has disappeared. In fact, the right column content is still there, but you need to scroll down all the way to the bottom of the screen to see it.

This means that in our current site (using the default site template), it would be better if we were to use the top menu as our default site menu. Right now, that's not the case, but it&apos...

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