Saturday, September 24, 2011

Add Left Navigation or Create and Enable a New Menu in Joomla

This short Tutorial give you a Clear Example of how to Add a New Working Menu in Joomla.
The Process is a little bit complicate because of the Extended Quantity of Settings existing in Joomla...
So you will need to have a little patience to Follow Up the Process :)

1)Add a New Menu


Menus > Menu Manager




Menu Manager > New



Fill In all Fields

Don't put spaces in "Unique Name"


Save





2)Add a New Module to Display the Menu




Extensions > Module Manager




Module Manager > New



Fill In the Title

Set the Position


If you need to check what are the Available Positions in your Template look at my next Post.

Joomla give you the Possibility to Insert much Precious Settings and between them there is the possibility to Give the New Module an Id. This will be very useful when you will need to Stylize your page by CSS or use some Javascript to manipulate the DOM...





Advanced Parameters

I

V

Menu Tag ID



Give it an Id

Save


Last, to Work the Module must to be Enabled...



Double Click on Enable




3)Add some Stuff to your New Menu




Menus > LeftNavigation





Click on New





Choose the Menu Item Type

In this Case an Article Layout Item





Fill in the Title

Click on Select

Choose a Item from the Popup

Save


Now if You are Grateful Take a Deep-Look...:


Bloogger Blogger, Google Blogger, Google Google


Others Tuts
If Yes I Say You Thank-You.