How to Make a $3000 Professional Looking Small Business Website from Scratch by Van Miller - HTML preview

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Create and Arrange the Main Navigation Menu



In your Dashboard, click on Appearance /Menus than in the field Menu Name type in Main menu and click on the Create Menu button.

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While you are still in the edit menu section go and click on the link named View All under the pages section on the left. Then click on the link Select All. Uncheck the Van's Surfboards on the bottom of the list and click on the Add to Menu button.

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The next step is to arrange the order of your pages. You can drag and drop the pages and place them in the desired order. You want to have your front page on the top, which is Home: Van’s Surfboards followed by the Gallery Testimonials, Services, and Contact Us pages. So let’s move the Gallery page under the Van’s Surfboards. Place your cursor over the page, and you will see that it will change into a four arrows cursor, than just click and hold the left button of your mouse and drag the page bellow the Van’s Surfboards. Before you release your mouse button you will see punctuated line that shows you where the page will be placed. It could be either directly under the front page or shifted a bit to the right. You want to drop the page straight underneath the Van’s Surfboards page. If you drop the Gallery page to the right under the Van’s Surfboards page the Gallery page will become a sub-page of the Home page. You don't want that to happen, so make sure all pages are aligned straight.

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When you are done, click on the little triangle for the Van’s Surfboards page, and from the menu that showed up, change the Navigation Label from Van’s Surfboards to Home. Also for the Theme location options below, select all tree boxes: Primary Navigation, Top Navigation, and Footer Navigation, then click Save Menu.

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When you go back to your website and refresh it, you will see that your navigation menu appears on the top bar, in your header area and on the bottom of the page. For this example you want to use the header area to display your navigation menu. Go back to Menus, select Main menu and uncheck the Top Navigation, and Footer Navigation, then click Save Menu.

In the next few steps you will insert an image, description of your businesses and a video to the front page.