How to Add sub-menus to Joomla main navigation
buttons (Making dropdown menus) in Joomla
I'm using a template
youbizz just recently for a website.
The website is already configured to use Joomla as a CMS.
This is a website related to the university so joomla was the
perfect choice for a quick and easy to configure
Content
Management System
The
youbizz template really makes difference and make the
website layout look & feel quite a business looking.
However I needed a way to make my general configured menu buttons
on the website to have a
dropdown sub-menus in it
I even didn't know if Joomla is supporting this, but by a chance
I've made a submenu to the website
Home buttom menu and thus
I learned it how I can make submenus.
It actually appears creating the submenus to a menu in Joomla is a
piece of cake, all you have to do in joomla administrator is go to
to:
Menus -> Main Menu
From there you can configure as website buttons and link them to
the ones already prepared in
Article Manager
Just in case if you don't know to add a buttons to a new joomla
installation it's necessary from admin to first go to:
Content -> Article Manager
Next press the
New button (a green button with an image of a
plus sign)
Thereon put a
Title ,
Alias and in the input box put
on everything you want this button pressed to show up in ur
website.
Completing that simply press the
Apply button and it should
be done.
Next step to make the article appear in
Menus -> Main
Menu is to go this section and respectively from there use the
green button with the plus sign to add up a new element to the main
menu.
Right after you will have the Menu Item: [ New ] to appear it looks
like in the pic below:
From the list of items to select you need to select the
Article menu element. A submenu will appear in your browser
to the Articles reading:
Article Layout
Article Submission Layout
etc.
From this menu you will have to select the
Article
Layout
The next screen to appear will look like the pic below:
Here in
article layout few things needs to be adjusted,
again you will need to place the
Title and the Alias,
further after from the
Parameters (Basic) located on the
right you will have to select an article to link the new menu
you're just creating in Joomla's new menu.
Here it's important to note the existence of
Parent Item
scrolldown field. This field will have all the created menu buttons
in
Main Menu . In case if this is the first one to create in
main menu then it could be also empty.
The Parent Item field is really an important field and through it
the menu's submenus are created in Joomla.
For instance let's say you want the current creating article to be
listing as a sub-benu button to another already existing category,
instead of listing as a separate button to the Joomla's main menu
navigation.
Well it's pretty easy just choose from the Parent Item the
name of an already existing menu button in Joomla main menu
to be the parent of the sub-menu button you want to have.
That's it now you will have the sub-menu button to appear as a drop
down button (if of course your template supports dropdown
menus).
There are few more options to choose in between which I found to be
quite self explanatory, so I want explain them
But I hope I was able to explain at least the basics how menu
subbuttons can be created in Joomla 1.5 I find it a bit harder
to explain in a bit plain way, but anyways if some of my dear
readers is not understanding how to achieve the sub-menus I'm more
than willing to help out further via the comments.