Beginner's Guide

smaller than the primary navigation. It contains links like contact, about us and legal notices. The idea
behind this is to have these links at the site but not at a very important position.
As a general rule, do not put more than four to eight links in a navigation level.
BREADCRUMBS
A 'breadcrumb trail' is a navigation aid. The term comes from the trail of breadcrumbs left by
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in the Brothers Grimm fairytale. Usually breadcrumbs are positioned horizontally
on the top of a web page. Two structures are used:
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showing links back to each previous page the user clicked through to get to the current page
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showing the parent pages of the current one
Breadcrumbs are a way to prevent visitors from feeling lost on your site. Ideally visitors should always
know where they are on the site and how to go back. Joomla provides a breadcrumb module for this task
and most templates have a breadcrumb position reserved for it (Figure 1).
Figure 1: Breadcrumbs
JOOMLA MENUS
Joomla navigations are created by so-called menus. You can create as many menus as you need for
your website. Each menu may contain any number of nested menu items and you can even filter the
level. A menu item is assigned to a component or an external URL. Modules and template styles can be
assigned to menu items. In the example data, a few menus are shown that have already been created.
Let's have a look at two examples of primary navigation with static pages and dynamic categories.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hansel_and_Gretel