To administer menus go to Administer>Site Building>Menus

Add a menu

This creates a new menu Block. Once created, you can edit other menu items to appear in this block or create new menu items.

By default the block is disabled, so you won't be able to see it. Go to Administer>Site Building>Blocks to enable your menu block.

Add a menu item

Click the 'add menu item' link.

Title

Give the menu itme a title. Don't make the title too long or it may break your theme. Always try to put an 'action'in the menu. For example instead of 'Documents' put 'Read documents'

Description

This shows text when you hover the mouse button over the link. If you wish to adhere to accessibility standards, put in a description of the link. Again make your link description sensible. Instead of putting 'Link to item' put 'Heres the items about drag and drop in Drupal 6'

Administering the menu lists is easy once you get the hang of it.

Go to Administer>Site Building>Menus>List

This shows the list of menus on the site. They are arranged in blocks, for example the block called Navigation. Under navigation there is a list of all the menu items available.

Some menu items will be active, some will be 'inactive'.

Some will have parents, others wont.

Sorting the menu

This is done by clicking on the 'edit' link on each menu item and changing the Weight.

Applying a light weight makes the menu item float to the top of the list. Applying a heavier weight makes the menu item sink to the bottom.

In Drupal 6, this will be replaced by a drag-drop mechanism.

Each menu item has 3 options

It is easy to get confused about menus and categories.

Menus are simply links to other bits of your website or other resources on the Internet.

Categories are places on your website where you organise content.

If you create a category, then you can put content into it.

But you wont be able to see the list of content inside the category unless you create a menu item that links to it. 

Linking to a node

If you look at any individual posting on
your site, it has an ID such as node/117. You can see this in the
address bar when you visit the node. All you have to do is paste this
into the path field. So to lnk to node/117, all you do is  paste
node/117.

You do not, and should not paste in the http://www.mysite.com/ part of the path. 

Linking to a category

Suppose you have categorised a load of stories and you want to link to them and display them as a listing?

All you do is go to Administer>Content Management>Categories>List

This
lists the Vocabularies. Click the 'list terms' link on the vocabulary
you are using. This shows all the terms in the vocabulary. Hover your
mouse over the term you wish to use and the link shos up in the Status
Bar of your browser. (The Status Bar is usually right at the bottom of
your browser window.)

The link follows the pattern http://ww.mysite.com/taxonomy/term/3

Paste in the taxonomy/term/3 part of the path and this will ceate your listing.

Linking to more than one category

Imagine you have two different categories and you want a single menu item that will list them both.

All you need to do is go to the list of term and pick up the taxonomy term IDs.

Menus are simply links to resources on your own site or other places of the Internet.

In Drupal, menus are arranged into Blocks. You can manipulate blocks to that you can control where on the page your menu shows up.

There are 2 special menus, called Primary Links and Secondary links.  These normally contain the mot important links on your site. Quite often they are found at the top of your site pages.

These two menus are often themed - for instance some themes will style these menu items as tabs. 

You can control the behaviour of Primary and Secondary links in Administer>Site building>Menus>Settings.

A menu is simply a list of items used to navigate a website.

A menu item is an individual link within the menu.

A menu item consists of the Title - the words you click on - and the URL - the place you wish to go to when you click on the Title.

You can link a menu to anything within your Drupal site such as

• a node
• a page
• a view
• a taxonomy item

or you can link it to any other resource on the Internet such as another website.

In Drupal you can:

• create any number of menu items
• nest menu items inside one another
• order the menu items list
• create menu Blocks that you can assign to different regions within the page