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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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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

Exploring menu module settings

While creating or editing a menu module, the module details and options allow you to control exactly where the menu is shown and how it displays. In many cases, the default settings will do—but if you really want control over your menus, it's a good idea to explore the wide range of additional possibilities. In the Module Manager, click on the menu name (such as This Site or About CORBA). The Module Manager: Module Menu screen appears as follows:

Exploring menu module settings

Switching to the menu module screen

You've just seen how you can edit menu properties by navigating to Extensions | Module Manager and finding the appropriate menu module. However, we've seen there's also a shortcut available that takes you straight from Menu Manager to the corresponding menu module settings:

Switching to the menu module screen

In the Linked Modules column, click on the link to the menu module. Usually, there will be just one linked module available; however, if you use more instances of the same menu in different...

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