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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

Chapter 8. Helping Your Visitors Find What They Want – Managing Menus

Menus and content in Joomla are closely intertwined. In the previous chapters, you saw that menu links don't just point to existing pages, as you might expect if you have experience building websites the old-fashioned way. When adding a menu link, you don't just tell Joomla what page the menu link should point to; rather, you instruct it to make that page. You saw how this works when you added content to your site. By adding menu links, you created category pages and other types of pages.

However, to your visitor, Joomla menus are no different from other website menus. To them, menus should provide an easy means of navigation. In this chapter, we'll concentrate on menus as a means to navigate. We'll focus on how you can make and tweak menus to design clear and intuitive navigation, and also on how you can help the visitors find what they want without difficulty.

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