Back to Creating Additional Menus Tutorial
welcome in this video we're going to
walk through how to create a custom menu
now each site is going to be provisioned
with a main navigation which is what you
see here the main nav is going to appear
either above or below the Jumbotron if
you choose to utilize drumotron
depending on what your settings are for
that landing page now you can also have
a secondary menu which will appear at
the page level so for instance this gray
speak page here as a left nav menu that
appears on the left side and this menu
is completely independent of what the
main nav menu is so let's go ahead and
walk through the process of how to
create a secondary navigation
first you'll start with going to
structure and then you'll choose menus
now the first thing you'll see here is a
list of different menus that you can
edit if you'd like you can also create a
new menu on the fly let's say I want to
edit this menu 10 I haven't done
anything with it yet
the first thing I want to do is give it
a title something descriptive that I'll
know what this refers to and then I want
to make sure I click Save
all right so my menu name has been
updated now I can come back in and I can
start adding links
first I'll click the add link button
it'll give my first menu link a title
and then I'll search for a page if I've
already created it or I'll copy and
paste the full URL of an external page
so for instance I've already got this
page created here so I can just search
for it it'll pull it up for me pretty
nifty you want to make sure that this
enabled box is checked it should be
automatically description adds a little
hover box that will appear if a user
hovers our cursor over the menu and that
description will appear here all right
we can choose to show this as expanded
and it gives you some options for
choosing the parent link and weight but
I'm going to ignore that because I can
actually realize this in a more
intuitive way a little bit later so I'm
going to go ahead and click Save
right and I've got a confirmation saying
my menus been saved pretty cool let's go
ahead and add another look
click Add link
and this time let's point to an external
page by Google
I'll go and get the full URL
I'll be this year
taste it here
all right leave all the other settings I
don't need a description for this one
click Save
and for fun let's add one more menu
my menu link
let's see here
you
like that guy and click Save
all right so I've got my manual set up
if I want to reorganize how the menu
links appear I can edit my menu again
and I can simply drag and drop them in
whatever order I need we have another
video that goes into you how
specifically to organize this if he
wants you but just know that basically
if you want to nest one menu link under
another that's going to make it sort of
like a sub menu leaving it over at the
far left gonna leave it at the parent
level and you can reorganize these as
such just by dragging and dropping them
and then quick and safe
right now let's see what this looks like
so I'll go ahead and create a page real
quick
well it's my test page too
and the way that I enable this menu is I
go to display and I can choose here
whether I want the menu to appear on the
left or the right and say I want on the
right I can choose my menu I created
here and so all I have to do is enable
it
go ahead and save this page
and there is mine and you