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'

Adding vocabulary term is easy.

Go to Administration>Content Management>Categories>List

Go down the vocabulary list and click the 'add terms' link.

Parents

This is only visible if your vocabulary has a single or multiple hierarchy.

You can select one or more parents for your term. If you want the term to be on the same level as all the other terms choose 'root'.

Term name

Give the term a title

Description

If you want to, give the term a description.

Synonym

This can be left blank

Notes

Always make sensible names for your terms as the term names and the parent child relatioships often show in other places around your site such as crumbtrails.

Vocabularies help us to organise our category terms.

Vocabularies are a collections of words - or Terms as they are called in Drupal - that we use to organise content of a similar type.

Categories are synonymous with Terms. In other words if I create the term 'Red' then Red is a category I can put content into. You will get used to this when you start creating your taxonomic system.

Example of a vocabulary use

We might create the following terms to categorise car engine size

• less than 1000cc
• 1000-1200cc
• 1200-1800
• more than 1800

We can collect these terms into a vocabulary called Cars along with many other terms we associate with cars.

We can create another vocabulary called Books and put the following terms into it