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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 – deleting menus

As many of the example menus are not needed for our goal, we'll delete them. Don't worry, you can always create new menus! We'll just delete the specific instances of the menus that were used in the example site.

  1. Go to Menus | Menu Manager. Select three example menus you won't need any more: About Joomla, Australian Parks, and Fruit Shop. Do not select Main Menu, Top, or User Menu. We'll keep these three generic menus because we can reuse them in our new site.
  2. Click on the Delete button. A warning message appears; click on OK to confirm you want to delete the menus and their content and the associated menu modules. You'll see a confirmation message and you will be left with just three menus in the Menu Manager screen, as shown in the following screenshot:
    Time for action – deleting menus

    Although we'll keep Main Menu, we don't need the links it contains (links to the content that has just been deleted). The only link we need to keep is the Home...

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