Chapter 5Creating Menus and Navigation

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Menus and Menu Items are important to a Joomla site. In a static HTML site, they merely serve as navigation. In a Joomla site, on the other hand, they serve that purpose and also determine what a dynamic page will look like and what content will appear on that page when you navigate to it.

The relationship between menus, menu items, pages, and modules is perhaps one of the most confusing concepts in Joomla. This chapter explains this relationship so that you can create a navigation scheme that works for your site.

This chapter examines how to build navigation (menus and their menu items) for a Joomla website and how the different aspects interact to produce both a coherent navigation structure ...

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