Adding Links to a External Joomla Menu

Step 1:

From your control panel click on the “menu Manager” icon

Find the menu you wish to edit, which is called “External Links” in the example, then just right of this under the “menu items” column click on the small icon as shown in the image below.

Once clicked it will display a list of all your current links, to create a new link click on the “new” icon at the top right of the page.

Once the page has loaded from the menu type click on the “external link” option.

Now you can fill in all the details for your new link. Under the link always add the “http://” to the start of the link and for the “On Click, Open in:” select “new window with browser Navigation” so that it opens in a new window and doesn’t take them away from your site. Once completed click on save. (See image below)

Joomla – Uploading and linking different types of files such as PDF’s

Step 1:
From your control panel click on the “media manager” icon.

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At the bottom of the page you will see a place to browse for the PDF, Click on the browse button and you can now navigate to the file.
Once you have selected your file click on the “start upload” button. Once it’s completed the file will appear in the space above.

Step 2:

Now go to the article manager from your main control panel and edit the wall insulation page and highlight the text that you wish to link and then click on the link icon. On the pop up you can now change the URL to:

/images/yourfilename.pdf

And finally save changes. (Images is the default location where everything is uploaded to via the media manager.)