1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,000 Now that you understand the two sides of the way menus work in Joomla!, 2 00:00:04,001 --> 00:00:09,001 both configuring the menu itself, and where it displays on the page through the module, 3 00:00:09,002 --> 00:00:14,002 let's walk through how to add a new menu item to our menu. 4 00:00:14,003 --> 00:00:16,003 I'm going to make a link to the About page. 5 00:00:16,004 --> 00:00:21,004 So I'm going to start by going to Menus>Main Menu. 6 00:00:21,005 --> 00:00:26,005 And, this is my Menu Item Manager for the main menu. 7 00:00:26,006 --> 00:00:29,006 Right now I have one link; it's the link to the home page. 8 00:00:29,007 --> 00:00:32,007 Joomla! makes this for you by default when you install Joomla! 9 00:00:32,008 --> 00:00:36,008 Now I'd like to add a link to the About page. 10 00:00:36,009 --> 00:00:41,009 So, I'm going to start by clicking on the big green New button just like we always do. 11 00:00:41,010 --> 00:00:46,010 This is going to tell me that this is a publish link which is exactly what I want. 12 00:00:46,011 --> 00:00:49,011 And the next thing I'm asked for is the Menu Item Type. 13 00:00:49,012 --> 00:00:53,012 So to do this, I'm going to click the Select button, and this is going to give 14 00:00:53,013 --> 00:00:57,013 me the various types of links that I might have on my Web site. 15 00:00:57,014 --> 00:01:00,014 Well, I'm wanting to link to the About article that I created earlier 16 00:01:00,015 --> 00:01:03,015 in the previous chapter. So, what would I click on? 17 00:01:03,016 --> 00:01:05,016 Well, probably this thing here that says Articles. 18 00:01:05,017 --> 00:01:08,017 So I'm going to go ahead and click on that. 19 00:01:08,018 --> 00:01:11,018 It's going to give me some options where articles are concerned. 20 00:01:11,019 --> 00:01:16,019 And all I want to do is just link to one article, so it's probably this one 21 00:01:16,020 --> 00:01:20,020 right here, the single article. So I'm going to go ahead and choose that. 22 00:01:20,021 --> 00:01:24,021 The screen is going to update a little bit to reflect what is required within 23 00:01:24,022 --> 00:01:29,022 this particular screen for showing this About article link on the Web page. 24 00:01:29,023 --> 00:01:33,023 And of course, the start items are what you look for and that's what you 25 00:01:33,024 --> 00:01:35,024 are required to put in. 26 00:01:35,025 --> 00:01:39,025 So, first of all is, what article are we going to add to the Web site? 27 00:01:39,026 --> 00:01:41,026 Those of you who are familiar with earlier versions of Joomla! 28 00:01:41,027 --> 00:01:45,027 we used to always see this on the right side of the screen. 29 00:01:45,028 --> 00:01:49,028 Now it's over here on the left, because this is one of the most important things 30 00:01:49,029 --> 00:01:52,029 that we have to put in, is that which article are we linking to. 31 00:01:52,030 --> 00:01:56,030 So, I'm going to click on the Select button again, and I can find my About 32 00:01:56,031 --> 00:01:59,031 article from the list, it's right here called About. 33 00:01:59,032 --> 00:02:01,032 And I can give this a menu title. 34 00:02:01,033 --> 00:02:04,033 This will be the words that appear inside of the menu itself. 35 00:02:04,034 --> 00:02:07,034 It's what you're going to click on to go to this Web page. 36 00:02:07,035 --> 00:02:08,035 So this is called About. 37 00:02:08,036 --> 00:02:13,036 Yes, it's an article called About, it's a menu item called About. 38 00:02:13,037 --> 00:02:16,037 Now, I've called these both the same things in this particular case. 39 00:02:16,038 --> 00:02:19,038 But, I don't have to. I could have shortened this. 40 00:02:19,039 --> 00:02:24,039 The article title maybe something like about KinetECO, Inc. 41 00:02:24,040 --> 00:02:30,040 the amazing company founded five years ago by visionaries based in Ventura, 42 00:02:30,041 --> 00:02:32,041 California, or whatever that great big huge long title is. 43 00:02:32,042 --> 00:02:36,042 If you work in academia, you'll run into these really, really long titles for articles. 44 00:02:36,043 --> 00:02:40,043 And it's not suitable necessarily to take that incredibly long title and turn it 45 00:02:40,044 --> 00:02:42,044 into a link on your navigation. 46 00:02:42,045 --> 00:02:46,045 So, you can always shorten your navigation titles if needed. 47 00:02:46,046 --> 00:02:48,046 In this particular case, it's one word. 48 00:02:48,047 --> 00:02:53,047 So I've just called my article and my menu exactly the same thing. 49 00:02:53,048 --> 00:02:58,048 Going down a little bit further here, we want that About link to occur on the Main Menu. 50 00:02:58,049 --> 00:03:00,049 So I've got that selected. 51 00:03:00,050 --> 00:03:04,050 And this is all we need to configure, just these three start items or four start items; 52 00:03:04,051 --> 00:03:09,051 the Menu Item Type which is a single article, which article do we want to link to, 53 00:03:09,052 --> 00:03:13,052 this one, what is it going to be called on the page, this thing here, 54 00:03:13,053 --> 00:03:16,053 and where is it going to appear? Inside of the main menu; 55 00:03:16,054 --> 00:03:19,054 that's all we need. Go ahead and say Save & Close. 56 00:03:19,055 --> 00:03:23,055 Now, we have two links; our Home link and our About link. 57 00:03:23,056 --> 00:03:27,056 If we go to the front end of the Web site now and we refresh our page, 58 00:03:27,057 --> 00:03:30,057 you'll notice that we have two links that appear right here; 59 00:03:30,058 --> 00:03:33,058 the link to the home page, and a link to the About page. 60 00:03:33,059 --> 00:03:38,059 If I click on the link for the About page, I see my About page exactly as 61 00:03:38,060 --> 00:03:41,060 I would expect, and you see here we have a title. 62 00:03:41,061 --> 00:03:44,061 Please don't worry about all of this blah, blah up here on the top. 63 00:03:44,062 --> 00:03:49,062 I will be showing you how to get rid of that in chapter 7, you can't get rid 64 00:03:49,063 --> 00:03:53,063 of who it's written by and the category it's in, or leave some of these things 65 00:03:53,064 --> 00:03:57,064 on and turn some of them off. I'll walk you through all of that then. 66 00:03:57,065 --> 00:04:02,065 And than we have our text and we have our picture over here on the side. So, this is great. 67 00:04:02,066 --> 00:04:03,066 That's exactly what we were looking for. 68 00:04:03,067 --> 00:04:07,067 Finally, we can see the results of all of our work, and I'll see you in the next 69 00:04:07,068 --> 00:04:10,068 video where I'm going to add a few more links to this menu.