Joomla Website HOME TAB?
Posted by admin on Dec 5, 2009
I want to make my Site LOGO HOME and I want to make the FIRST Main Menu Item the SECOND Page of my site! Any ideas as how I can do this…I know a fair bit of PHP and my way around Joomla 1.5 …but not an expert.
Thanks.
I’m not sure if I understand you correctly, but it sounds as if you want to have a graphic/intro home page with a "click to enter" type entry into the site.
First, let me say that I recommend against this type of site design because most users want to get straight into the site without extra clicking. It just makes more work for your visitors.
However, if that’s what you want to do, here’s how to do it:
Joomla! displays the first item on the "main menu" as the home page, but there is no requirement that this menu ever be displayed by being assigned to a module position.
In other words, leave the system main menu (the one that says it can’t be deleted) empty except for your entry ("logo") page and do NOT assign it to any module position for any pages.
Then create a new menu (which can also be called "Main Menu" if you want) that has your second (and other) page main menu items. Assign this second main menu to the desired module position and pages (or all pages) where you would have placed the original main menu.
You may want to rename the original main menu to avoid your own confusion when looking through the module list.
Give us a link to your site so we can take a look at the code.
But in general, place your logo image in-between the a tags like this: <a href="homepage.html"><img src="logo.gif"></a>
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I’m not sure if I understand you correctly, but it sounds as if you want to have a graphic/intro home page with a "click to enter" type entry into the site.
First, let me say that I recommend against this type of site design because most users want to get straight into the site without extra clicking. It just makes more work for your visitors.
However, if that’s what you want to do, here’s how to do it:
Joomla! displays the first item on the "main menu" as the home page, but there is no requirement that this menu ever be displayed by being assigned to a module position.
In other words, leave the system main menu (the one that says it can’t be deleted) empty except for your entry ("logo") page and do NOT assign it to any module position for any pages.
Then create a new menu (which can also be called "Main Menu" if you want) that has your second (and other) page main menu items. Assign this second main menu to the desired module position and pages (or all pages) where you would have placed the original main menu.
You may want to rename the original main menu to avoid your own confusion when looking through the module list.
References :