Building a Basic Top-Level Menu

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Basic Top-Level and Basic Dropdown menus are an important part of most site navigation schemesCreating one-level navigation in your header with no drop-down content.

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Before building menus, we recommend formalizing your site's information architecture (IA) and being comfortable working with architect pages.

You'll need permission to access the Architect Tab to build or modify menus.

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Create a

new menu page

Open the Theme Press Designer

Locate the Architect tab and navigate to the Menu section

At the bottom of that section, expand the Create link

Menu Architect Page.

Select One

Level and give your new menu a name

-Level as the menu type.

Customize the pre-loaded sample menu items.

Press the +Menu button

Create a new menu page

By default, any new menu page will have pre-populated content. Each bullet list item translates to a menu item. To edit the demo content

1. Edit the first and only block on the new menu page Editing Block Content

2. Customize the bullet list. Use the Rich Text Editor to link to Confluence content or external content.

3. Save the page and notice how the bullet list items have translated into top level menu items.

Update the links for each menu item.

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Using the editor to insert relative links (instead of hardcoding URLs) ensures that when content is updated and page titles change, Confluence will automatically update the links for you.

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Customize the pre-loaded sample menu items.

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Update the links for each menu item.

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