Menu settings

Menu settings section allows administrator to create a link and insert it into navigation menu to the website (this menu can be located at the top of the page, in the left or right sidebar – depending on your layout design). This menu can contain children (have more than one level menus) or be just plain one level menu (this depends on your layout design). If your main navigation doesn’t contain any second level links – don’t create second level links as they will not appear anywhere in the website.
Menu settings allows administrator to select the menu link to be either Top Level or be a Child of another link.

In the image above: menu settings in the create a content item form.
Parent item can be top level menu (Primary Links in the image above) or menu item (link).
Weight option allow administrator to position new link within the menu. Less numbers stay higher in vertical menus and going left side in the horizontal menus.
Not all pages have Menu Settings option. Some websites may not have this option and it depends on personalised configuration.
Create a menu item ONLY if it is required. Don’t clutter site navigation. Some pages could be accessible through other pages as a regular inline links.
To create a menu for a page of any type, follow these simple steps:

  1. [Title] – fill out menu title. Good Title examples are: Home, About, Contact, Information, etc. Try to have Title’s style consistent across the website (if you are creating links Capitalised – make them all capitalised. If they are all lowercase – make them all lowercase. Don’t make one of them lowercase, while others Capitalised. This will break your website’s style). Try to make all menu link one word long. Avoid using too long text in links as well – e.g. instead of “About Us” consider making it “About”.
  2. [Description] –optional fields, though, recommended to increase website usability. This text will appear when people will place their mouse over the menu link (hover it). Could be used for help tips for menu links.
  3. [Parent item] –important field, which determines the parent for our menu item. For example, to create a menu item under [Information] link, choose [Information] (Let’s say you’re creating menu link called “Industrial” and you want it to be the child of “Information” – so the menu tree will look like this:

Information

-Industrial

In this example the new link should be named “Industrial” and the parent should be “Information”).To create a top – level menu link (to be amongst top menu links) – choose [Parent links].
4. [Weight] –important field as well. This will determine menu link’s position amongst other links. Each menu link has its own weight. Less numbers go higher in vertical menus and to the left left in horizontal menus, while higher number goes lower and to the right.