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How to Manage Your Site's Menu

Managing navigation in Drupal

Setting up the menus properly is one of the most important things you can do to help visitors find what they're looking for. Organizing pages on your site is similar to organizing files within folders on your computer. When adding a page to your site, you must specify the “folder” where a visitor would find that page. In Drupal, this “folder” is called the Parent Link

Watch: How to manage your site's menu

See the basics on how to manage your site's menu.

Use the Drupal Menus page to reorder links within your navigation menus. When editing any of the navigation menus, drag any page you wish to reorder to the proper location using the crosshairs icon to the left of the page title. 

Yes. Your main navigation, utility navigation and agency footer can include links to other websites. 

Generally users expect that links in a website's main navigation go to pages within that website. If links in your main navigation go to pages outside of your website, this could potentially confuse users. This doesn't mean you can't do it; just be aware of it and arrange for testing and evaluation to ensure that those links are working the way you want them to.

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