Now that I have my About link on the Web site, I can link to the other two
pages from our site map.
So we had an About page as the top -level page and then we had some
sub-navigation associated with that.
That was a page about the executives who are part of KinetECO and we had a page
about the structure of the company.
So, what I need to do now is I need to link these two articles to the Web site,
and make them appear as sub-navigation under About.
So to do that, I'm going to go to Menus, and I'm going to go to Main Menu.
And right now I just have my two links; Home and About.
So I'm going to add a new link to the Web site, clicking the New button just like we always do.
My Menu Item Type, I'm going to click the Select button.
And once again, I'm working with articles. So I'm going to click on Articles.
And once again I just want to link to a single article.
I just want to link to the executives page here. So, I'm going to choose Single Article.
It's going to ask me which article I want to link to.
I'm going to click on the Select button, and I'm going to find the
article called Executives.
And I'm going to give this a Menu Title of Executives, and the Menu Location,
it's going to be inside of the Main Menu. All right.
Now, if I just hit Save, I'm not going to hit Save & Close, I'm just going
hit Save, and when I refresh the front end of the Web site, I now have three
links under my Main Menu; Home, About, and Executives.
But, this isn't really what I want because right now, executives is at the same
level as Home and About.
And the way that I showed this in my site map is executives were sub-navigation.
So, what should happen here is from my Home page, I should just see a link for About.
When I click on About, then I should see the links for the Executives and for
the company structure.
So, there's one other thing I need to change here inside of this configuration
screen, and that's down here called the Parent Item.
Right now, that's set to the Menu Item Root.
Think of that as it's exactly the same level as your home link.
That's not what we want. We want this to be under the About link.
So, what we need to do here is change this to the About link.
This way, this particular link for executives will now show up under About
rather than showing up at the same level as the home link.
Go ahead and say Save & New.
And if we refresh the front end of the Web site, now you'll see that I'm here on the About page.
This little link over here for executives just turned tinier, and it's got a
little line in front of it, showing that it's indented.
When I click on the Executives page, I get my executives text.
When I click on the Home page, that link for executives disappears.
It's only present when I'm on the About page or within the About portion of the Web site.
Okay. So let's just do that one more time.
I'm going to add one more link here to the Web site.
Once again, this is for the company structure page.
I'm going to click Select. It's going to be articles.
It's still a single article.
And the article I'm going to select is now this Company Structure page.
So, I'm going to go ahead, and click that, my title will be Company Structure.
And the Parent Item will be once again the About page.
It's not the Executives page.
If it was the Executives page, I'd have to go to the About page, and then go
to the Executives page to finally see the company structure page, and that's
not what I want to do.
I want to go to the About page, and see both Executives and Company Structure.
So both Executives and Company Structure must have the same parent, that's the About link.
So I'm going to go ahead and click that, and I'm going to say Save & Close.
And now, when I refresh the front end of the Web site, there is my link to Executives.
There is my link to Company Structure, and they're both under the About page.
And when I go back to the Homepage, all of that sub-navigation under About disappears.
So, that's how we create sub-navigation with simple articles, and we've done
that now for the About portion of this Web site.