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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

Time for action – adding a menu module

The template we've downloaded, Ice Future, comes with a couple of free modules. You don't really need them in order to be able to use the template. However, they can add useful functionality to your site. Especially the IceMegaMenu module has many advantages in comparison to the Joomla menu module, and it renders a menu that blends in nicely with the template design. Let's add this module.

  1. Navigate to Extensions | Extension Manager and click on the Upload Package File button. Then, click on Browse to navigate to the downloaded menu module, that is, the mod_icemegamenu_v.3.0.2.zip file. Install this module.
  2. Next, select the plg_icemegamenu0.zip plugin and install this plugin too.
  3. Enable the plugin. Go to Extensions | Plug-in Manager and locate the IceMegaMenu plugin. Click on the red cross in the Status column. It will change into a check mark, which means that the plugin is now active.
  4. Now, we can also enable the menu module and change...
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