1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,000 So, in the previous two chapters, we've done an enormous amount of work. 2 00:00:03,001 --> 00:00:06,001 We created all these categories inside of Joomla!, 3 00:00:06,002 --> 00:00:12,002 we dumped in a ton of articles with images and article formatting, all kinds of 4 00:00:12,003 --> 00:00:16,003 stuff, and now here we are in the front end of the Web site, and it looks like 5 00:00:16,004 --> 00:00:21,004 we've done absolutely nothing for the last however long it's been. 6 00:00:21,005 --> 00:00:26,005 All we've got here to show for this is one page on the home page, and that's 7 00:00:26,006 --> 00:00:28,006 because we haven't finished our CAM yet; 8 00:00:28,007 --> 00:00:30,007 Categories, Articles, and Menus. 9 00:00:30,008 --> 00:00:33,008 So, we're finally on to creating menu items. 10 00:00:33,009 --> 00:00:38,009 We need to link to our content, it will show up here in Main Menu, and then we 11 00:00:38,010 --> 00:00:43,010 can navigate around on the Web site and see actually finally what we've built so far. 12 00:00:43,011 --> 00:00:45,011 So it's a great place to be right now. 13 00:00:45,012 --> 00:00:50,012 There are two parts to the way menus work inside of Joomla! 14 00:00:50,013 --> 00:00:52,013 So, let's take a look here on the back end. 15 00:00:52,014 --> 00:00:57,014 Part one is actually creating the menu links inside of Joomla! 16 00:00:57,015 --> 00:01:03,015 So, if you take a look here under Menus, we have two links off of this, and the 17 00:01:03,016 --> 00:01:06,016 one we're most frequently going to use is Main Menu. 18 00:01:06,017 --> 00:01:11,017 So, if we go to Menus>Main Menu, we get a list of all of the menu links that 19 00:01:11,018 --> 00:01:16,018 are current in the main menu, which right now there is only one, it's the home link. 20 00:01:16,019 --> 00:01:19,019 We'll be adding more of these starting in the next video. 21 00:01:19,020 --> 00:01:24,020 The other link off the Menus menu is the Menu Manager. 22 00:01:24,021 --> 00:01:26,021 And the Menu Manager looks like this. 23 00:01:26,022 --> 00:01:31,022 And what happens here is you can create more menus. 24 00:01:31,023 --> 00:01:36,023 We'll actually do this in a little while. We'll create a footer menu for the Web site. 25 00:01:36,024 --> 00:01:40,024 So, of course that's going to display down at the bottom of the Web site. 26 00:01:40,025 --> 00:01:43,025 But right now, we only need one menu and that is our main menu. 27 00:01:43,026 --> 00:01:47,026 So, if you wind up on this screen, you're in the wrong place. 28 00:01:47,027 --> 00:01:51,027 You can get to the other place by over here on the left side of the screen. 29 00:01:51,028 --> 00:01:55,028 You can switch to menu items, that will show you the Main Menu, or you can go 30 00:01:55,029 --> 00:01:57,029 to Menus>Main Menu. 31 00:01:57,030 --> 00:02:01,030 Now, this is just the way that you configure what kind of links are going to 32 00:02:01,031 --> 00:02:05,031 display inside of that menu, and what kind of order they're going to appear in. 33 00:02:05,032 --> 00:02:10,032 This does not control where on the Web page that menu will display. 34 00:02:10,033 --> 00:02:14,033 The fact that our menu is displaying right here on the right side of the page 35 00:02:14,034 --> 00:02:19,034 in this box is configured somewhere else entirely, and that is configured under 36 00:02:19,035 --> 00:02:22,035 Extensions>Module Manager. 37 00:02:22,036 --> 00:02:25,036 So, we have a module called Main Menu. 38 00:02:25,037 --> 00:02:30,037 This controls exactly where the menu will display on the Web page, and how many 39 00:02:30,038 --> 00:02:34,038 links are displaying within that menu and their formatting and so forth. 40 00:02:34,039 --> 00:02:37,039 So, this is a separate part of the menu structure. 41 00:02:37,040 --> 00:02:39,040 I will be covering it in a little while. 42 00:02:39,041 --> 00:02:43,041 But, the first thing we're going to concentrate on in the next several videos 43 00:02:43,042 --> 00:02:47,042 is creating these menu links, so that they will display on the Web page, and we 44 00:02:47,043 --> 00:02:52,043 can see all of the great content that we've been working so hard on in the last two chapters.