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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

Time for action – creating a link to point to a main category


Follow the ensuing steps to create a menu link that points to a category:

  1. Navigate to Menus | Main Menu and click on New.

  2. The Menu Manager: New Menu Item screen opens. In the Menu Item Type section, navigate to Articles | Category Blog.

  3. In the Choose a category drop-down list, select Activities.

  4. Enter a Menu Title (that is, Activities).

  5. Click on Save & Close.

As you can see in the following screenshot, Activities now shows up as the last menu item in the Menu Items manager. The order in which menu items are presented here is the same order they will have in the Main Menu list on your website. If you would like to move the Activities link up in the Main Menu list, just click on the three little blocks in the ordering column to drag-and-drop any menu item to the desired position. (The ordering column is the one on the left-hand side with two little blue triangles pointing up and down in the top row.) In this example, we will leave...

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