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Now that we've got the About portion of the Web site, it's up, it's posted,

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let's work next on that solar blog, and the news and information part of this Web site.

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So, I'm going to start by creating a link to the News & Information page.

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And so, to do that, I'm going to go to Menus>Main Menu.

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Click on the big green New button to add a new menu item.

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And for the News & Information page, this is just a top-level page on the Web site.

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And in fact, right now, it's a placeholder page.

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It doesn't say much, don't worry, we'll be changing that later in the course.

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So, under Articles, I'm going to link to a single article.

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And which single article am I going to link to?

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Well, that's the News & Information page.

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And I'm going to give this a Menu Title of News & Info, and I'm going to call it

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News & Info just to show you that I can call the article News & Information,

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but I can the menu News & Info, something entirely different.

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I want this at the same level as my Home page link.

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So, my Parent Item will remain the Menu Item Root.

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And I am going to go ahead and say Save & New.

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If I refresh the front end of the Web site, you'll see I have a link for

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News & Info, and you'll see that there's precious little there.

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Again, we'll be adding to this page later in the course, but for right now,

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this is our placeholder information. Okay.

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So now we need to make the solar blog, and this is going to be sub-navigation to News & Info.

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And it's a blog, so I'm not going to be linking to a single article the way I did before.

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So, when I click on my Menu Item Type, I'm still going to Articles.

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But, I'm going to go make this a link to a blog.

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So, I'm going to go to the Category Blog down here.

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And then, it's going to ask me which category would I like to pull from?

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Well, I'd like to pull from the Solar category.

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And I'm going to give this a Menu Title of Solar Blog.

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And where is this going to live?

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Well, it's going to be a sub-navigation relative to News & Information.

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So, I'm going to scroll on down my page here.

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It's sort of scrolling off the screen a little bit.

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There we go down there;

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News & Info is my Parent Item.

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So, all I did this time was I picked Category Blog instead of picking Single

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Article, I've picked my category of Solar and I gave this a title.

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I set up my parent and I'm going to go ahead and say Save & Close.

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When I refresh the front end of the Web site, there's my link to the Solar Blog.

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And when I click on the link for the Solar Blog, here is my solar blog.

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So, you see here that I have a big article.

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It stretches across the top of the Web page.

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Then underneath, I have these two columns of information with these other

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additional articles.

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And because we went through and we put in those Read More links, you see here

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that we have a Read More link. It says Read more:

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Farmers installing solar power in record numbers.

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If I click that, I go to the full article for the Web page, and there's my big

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picture associated with that.

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So, that is the way my blog is currently working, and I already hear the graphic

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designers kind of complaining in the background.

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They are wondering whether this can look a little bit different, and can we do

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anything with the layouts and how can we improve this?

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Well, there are some things that we can do to tweak the look of a category blog,

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and I'm going to cover all of those in the next video.