Now that we've got the About portion of the Web site, it's up, it's posted,
let's work next on that solar blog, and the news and information part of this Web site.
So, I'm going to start by creating a link to the News & Information page.
And so, to do that, I'm going to go to Menus>Main Menu.
Click on the big green New button to add a new menu item.
And for the News & Information page, this is just a top-level page on the Web site.
And in fact, right now, it's a placeholder page.
It doesn't say much, don't worry, we'll be changing that later in the course.
So, under Articles, I'm going to link to a single article.
And which single article am I going to link to?
Well, that's the News & Information page.
And I'm going to give this a Menu Title of News & Info, and I'm going to call it
News & Info just to show you that I can call the article News & Information,
but I can the menu News & Info, something entirely different.
I want this at the same level as my Home page link.
So, my Parent Item will remain the Menu Item Root.
And I am going to go ahead and say Save & New.
If I refresh the front end of the Web site, you'll see I have a link for
News & Info, and you'll see that there's precious little there.
Again, we'll be adding to this page later in the course, but for right now,
this is our placeholder information. Okay.
So now we need to make the solar blog, and this is going to be sub-navigation to News & Info.
And it's a blog, so I'm not going to be linking to a single article the way I did before.
So, when I click on my Menu Item Type, I'm still going to Articles.
But, I'm going to go make this a link to a blog.
So, I'm going to go to the Category Blog down here.
And then, it's going to ask me which category would I like to pull from?
Well, I'd like to pull from the Solar category.
And I'm going to give this a Menu Title of Solar Blog.
And where is this going to live?
Well, it's going to be a sub-navigation relative to News & Information.
So, I'm going to scroll on down my page here.
It's sort of scrolling off the screen a little bit.
There we go down there;
News & Info is my Parent Item.
So, all I did this time was I picked Category Blog instead of picking Single
Article, I've picked my category of Solar and I gave this a title.
I set up my parent and I'm going to go ahead and say Save & Close.
When I refresh the front end of the Web site, there's my link to the Solar Blog.
And when I click on the link for the Solar Blog, here is my solar blog.
So, you see here that I have a big article.
It stretches across the top of the Web page.
Then underneath, I have these two columns of information with these other
additional articles.
And because we went through and we put in those Read More links, you see here
that we have a Read More link. It says Read more:
Farmers installing solar power in record numbers.
If I click that, I go to the full article for the Web page, and there's my big
picture associated with that.
So, that is the way my blog is currently working, and I already hear the graphic
designers kind of complaining in the background.
They are wondering whether this can look a little bit different, and can we do
anything with the layouts and how can we improve this?
Well, there are some things that we can do to tweak the look of a category blog,
and I'm going to cover all of those in the next video.