Creating a website with Joomla 1.5: Links
Linking Articles to the Menu
Now we have to make sure our pages can be accessed. For this purpose we will link them in the site menu. From the admin panel, go to Menus -> Main Menu*.
First we will delete all the default links. For this purpose check the first radio button to select all links and click on Trash. (There will be a warning "You cannot trash the default menu item" which can be safely disregarded)
We will add links to our articles and the "Contact us" page. For this purpose please, click on [New] from the top-left menu. Now we have to select the item type. In our case it will be Internal link - Article - Article Layout:
Next we have to fill in the information about the links. We will call the link "About us". Then from the left Parameters - Basic we click on [Select]:
Then appears a box with all our pages and we click on "About us":
Finally we save the link by clicking on [Save] from the top-right menu.
How to set a page to be default?
When we are still in the Menu Item Manager, we will set our page "About us" as default. For this purpose we check its radio button and click on [Default] from the top menu:
At this point we can optionally remove also the system placed link "Home" because we will not need it.
After that we will add a link to our other page "Our services". We click on [New] from the top menu in the Menu Item Manager, select Article -> Article Layout.
Then we fill the information about the link "Our services" and select it from Parameters - Basic. We click on "Our services" link from the box and click on [Save] to finalize the operation.
How to add the Contact us page to the menu?
Finally we will add a link to the "Contact us" page. For this purpose we click on the [New] icon from the top menu and choose:Internal Link -> Contacts -> Category -> Standard Contact Layout.
Then we fill the information about our new menu item "Contact us". For our basic needs we don't have to change anything else but the "Title" and we can safely click on [Save].
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