Meet the menus
Once you’ve created and published page stubs for all of the pages in your site, it’s time to create your navigation menus. Important! You can’t build menus until you’ve made and published pages!
We recommend making as few menus as possible, but you will need to create a few.
Self-paced training: Build navigation menus
Navigation menu checklist
Required
- Main navigation
- college universal navigation
- one subnavigation for each section of your site
Optional
Header
Main Navigation: Every site will have a main navigation that appears along the bottom of the header. The theme offers both a standard (each item is a link) and dropdown (each item includes a dropdown navigation trigger) version of its main navigation.
Utility navigation: The theme supports a short “utility” navigation that appears at the top of the header, next to the search bar.
Footer
The theme supports two navigation menus in the footer.
Left footer menu (a.k.a footer utility nav): Links to frequently-used pages within your site. May include header utility navigation. A contact link is a good addition here as well.
Right footer menu (a.k.a college universal nav): links to other Michigan Engineering websites. Should include:
Internal page subnavigations
This is the navigation that appears on pages that are not your home page. It tells the user what they can find in a given section of your site and shows only the pages for that section. You’ll create one for each major section of your site (essentially one subnav for each item in your main navigation).
If you use the theme’s Layout – Interior pattern when you create a new page, a placeholder navigation block will already be set up for you, and the navigation block will be “Sticky” – It will follow you down the page as you scroll. There is also a Layout-Interior non-sticky pattern available.
Breadcrumb Navigation
Breadcrumb navigation appears at the top of all interior pages compliments of the NavXT breadcrumb block. It will be added automatically if you’re using the default interior page template. It can also be added manually with the breadcrumb block.
