As you see, there is a module here for the main menu already. Those modules are located under Content, Site Modules. Second, there is a module which controls where the menu will appear on your webpage and how many levels of navigation will appear. The other items, probably not used all that much. But chances are, the item you're going to use the most here from Menus is simply your main menu link and potentially any other secondary menus that you might have. That's helpful if you have a gigantic website and you don't really know where the link to a particular item is, you can search all of those here in one central location. So if we had a footer menu and our main menu, all of those items would get mixed together in one long list. The other item that's here, the All Menus Item, this shows you all of the items that are on all of the menus regardless. And to this we can add additional navigation items very easily. This is the navigation structure, which starts with Home. So here we have the Main Menu that's part of the site. We also have the individual menus the themselves. So for example, if we want to add a footer menu to the website, which would be obviously displayed at the bottom of the screen, this is where we would go to create that. First of all, the Manage screen is where we would go to create additional menus. And if you just click on that to expand it, you'll see here that you have have some additional things to consider. So, first of all, here inside of Joomla! from your home dashboard, there is a Menus menu item on the left-hand side of your screen. But to create those menu items, there is a two-part process that you should know about. And the main focus of the page is usually either articles or other components in Joomla! That's jumping ahead a little bit for now, so just know that if you want to see it on the site, you're going to need a menu item for it in form or another. This has to do with assigning modules, which are small pieces of functionality that support the main focus of the page. In fact, that's generally a rule in Joomla! Everything must be linked to a menu, or those articles or other items will probably not display correctly. As you've seen, articles don't display in Joomla! unless they're linked to a menu. ![]() We'll be covering few of these options in this chapter, but there are many more to explore on your own. ![]() ![]() We can link directly to a single article, or we could create a blog of articles, or a list of article titles, and there are many other options as well. Once you have those articles, there are many different ways to display them. Before you create menu items, you need to have articles or other types of content to link to the menu.
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