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Name: This is the name of the menu that appears on your site.
Component: This gives you the type of content hidden behind the menu entry. This setting is specified while creating the menu entry. In our case, the Web Links component is being addressed.
Url: This is the part following the domain with which you access your site. In this case, it is index.php?option=com_weblinks&Itemid=23.Parent Item: The parent item is the superordinate element to this menu. Top means at the top level; all other entries represent existing menu entries. If, for example, you arrange and store Links under News, the display in the Menu Manager (Figure 4.42) and the display on your web design changes. On the website, the menu entry Links has now slipped into News. You first have to click News, in order to see the Links entry.
|  | Figure 4.41: Tree Structures on the Site
| This way your site can be structured like a directory tree very simply and effectively, as shown in Figure 4.42:
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| Figure 4.42: Tree Structures in Menu Manager
| Ordering: By clicking on the upward and downward pointing triangles you can modify the sort sequence within the menu. In the Ordering field you can do this in a listing. That way you don't have to keep clicking on the triangles.
Access Level: You can decide whether this menu is to be made available to all visitors (Public), only registered users (Registered), or a special circle of users (Special).
Published: You can publish or lock the menu here.
Parameters
Menu Image: Here you can specify a picture to be displayed along with the menu. To do this, the image must be in the root directory of the Media Manager (/images/stories/). The position in which the picture is displayed depends on the template; in this case, it is displayed on the left, next to the menu entry.
Page Class Suffix: Here you can specify a class from the CSS file of your template, with which this menu entry is to be formatted.
Back Button: Here you can assign the global settings for the back button, display it explicitly, or hide it.
Page Title: With this, you can display or hide the title of the page.
Page Title: Here you can specify the page title as shown in the following figure. If you don't enter anything here, the name of the link is assumed:
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| Figure 4.43: Individual Web link Area1
| Table Headings: Here you can display or hide the heading above the listing.
Hits: The hits on the links are displayed in the link list. You can change these in the global settings or via an appropriate selection.
Link Descriptions: Here you can enable the description that is displayed under a link in the link list.
Category List - Section/Category: If you click on Links, you can see the default text or your own text if specified in the parameters. This list can be turned on and off with two switches.
Description: Here you can switch the general description of the link components on or off.
Description Text: Here you can overwrite the standard text of the link components with individual text.
Image: Here you can specify a picture from the root directory of the Media Manager (/images/stories/) to be displayed along with the text. Depending on the image align parameter, this picture is displayed on the left or right of the description text, as illustrated in Figure 4.44:
|  | Figure 4.44: Individual Web Link Area2
| Image Align: This is the setting for the alignment of the picture (see Figure 4.44).
Icon: This is the icon that is displayed to the left of the list of links, your web design might be able to include this.
Publish
If you select one or more menu elements and click the Publish icon, they are published.
Unpublish
If you click Unpublish, marked entries are no longer displayed on the site.
Move
This is used for moving menu entries to a different menu. Select one or several menu elements and click Move. This opens a form listing the available menus (Figure 4.45). Select the menu into which you would like to move the marked menu entries:
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| Figure 4.45: Move Menu
| Copy
In order to copy menu entries, select one or several menu elements and click Copy. A form is opened, listing the available menus. Select the menu into which you want to copy the marked menu entries.
Trash
In order to throw menu entries into the trash can, select one or several menu elements and click on the trash icon. The marked menu entries are then dumped into the trash can.
Create a New Menu
Let's create a new menu with the name Joomla_book and a link to http://www.joomla.org/. Go to Menu | Menu Manager | New:
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| Figure 4.46: New
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