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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 – changing the order of menu items

On the CORBA example site, let's move Main Menu items around to present them in a more logical order. The items that we want to get most attention should be in the top half of the menu; links to less important or static content should be placed down below. In the following screenshot, the original menu is shown:

Time for action – changing the order of menu items

A more logical order—from most important to less important—is shown in the following screenshot:

Time for action – changing the order of menu items

It takes just a few steps to adjust the order of menu items:

  1. Navigate to Menus | Main Menu.
  2. In the Ordering drop-down list above the menu items list, select Ordering ascending. Now click on the three vertical squares on the left-hand side of the menu item you want to move and drag-and-drop the menu item to its new position, as shown in the following screenshot:
    Time for action – changing the order of menu items

Repeat the previous step until you're happy with the sequence of menu items.

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