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Setting Up Your Menus

You can edit the top and side menus of your website to suit your requirements.

You only have to edit them in one place: they are saved centrally and displayed on all your pages.

To Edit Your Menus
  1. Hover your mouse over either the top or the side menu.

  2. The Edit Menu button  will appear to the right of the menu. When you move your mouse cursor over the button, a red dotted line appears around your chosen menu.



  3. Click the Edit Menu button  to display the Menu Editor



    The menu items are displayed in a tree in the left pane of the window.


To edit a menu item
  1. In the left pane click the menu item that you would like to edit

    Or:

    Right-click the menu item and select Edit in the pop-up menu

  2. The properties of the menu item are displayed in the right pane of the window.



    • To edit the text of the item, type in the Text box

    • To change the page that the menu item is linked to, enter the new URL in the Url box.

      Tip:       To find the page in your site:
      1. Click on the "Select Page" button  to the right of the Url box
      2. The "Select Page" window is displayed.  Click the page that you want to link to.
      3. The window closes and the page URL is shown in the box

    •  If you only want to allow logged-in members to view the menu item, tick the Member Only box.

  3. When you have finished making your changes, click the Save Menu button  to save your changes.

  4. A message appears letting you know that the menu has been updated.

    Click the "refresh this page" link to close the Menu Editor and see your changes.


To add a new menu item
  1. Right-click the menu item that your new menu item will appear before or after

  2. Select Insert Before or Insert After in the pop-up menu to add the new menu item before or after the item that you selected



    Tip: You can easily change the position of the item in the menu later (see "To move a menu item" below)

  3. A new menu item is created.

  4. The properties of the menu item are displayed in the right pane of the Menu Editor window.

    Edit the boxes as required (see step 2: To edit a menu item above).

  5. Click the Save Menu button  to save your changes.

Tip: You might want to have a dividing line between different groups of menu items. To add a separator after a menu item:
  1. Follow steps 1 to 3 in To add a new menu item above

  2. Tick the Separator box in the right pane


  3. A dotted line separator is created. Click the Save Menu  button to save the separator in your menu.


To add a submenu
  1. Right-click the menu item under which the submenu is to appear



  2. Select "Add Submenu" in the pop-up menu



  3. A new submenu item is created.



    See step 2 above in To edit a menu item for instuctions on editing the properties.

  4. Click the Save Menu  button to save your changes


To move a menu item

  1. Drag the menu item in the left pane of the editor to its new location

    Tip: To turn a main menu item a submenu item, drag it to the menu item that you would like it to appear under.

To delete a menu item

  1. Right-click the menu item that you want to remove

  2. Select "Delete" from the pop-up menu



  3. Click OK to confirm that you want to delete the menu item

  4. Click the Save Menu  button to save your changes



See also

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