joomla sections and categories

[janetg]

Please can someone help me. I tried tech support who informed me that they do not have enough expertise in the application. I am attempting to create my ifrst site around tarot.

I have created a section called "meditate on tarot" and that appears in my main menu..fine.

I have then created a category called Pathworkings and that is set up to belong to the section "meditate on tarot".. however, when clicking on meditate to tarot in the main menu, the pathworkings category does not appear.

Why is it not working? I have read the joomla tutorial and that does not say anything.

thanks

[embudu]

Did you ask your question in the Joomla forums across the net. I am sure there are people who are able to help you.

[ralkana]

Janet,

This is an excerpt from a forum post I found ages ago, but forgot to record the details of the author or where I got it from - my apologies to the author; he/she does an excellent job of explaining something that all new mambo/joomla users struggle with (and boy, I struggled with it) :

You can decide what type of content you'll use. The basic things don't change: You need a content section and some content categories under each section.
For example, you want to publish some short stories on your site. Go to the section manager and create a new section called, for example, "Fiction". Then, if you plan to publish different types of stories, go to the categories manager, select the new section you just created on the dropdown list ("Fiction") and create some categories like "Science-fiction", "Thriller", "Romance"... When you want to add a new thriller story to your site, just select content->fiction and click "New". While inputting the stuff, choose the category "Thriller" from the dropdown list.

Maybe you would also like a solid link to your newly created section. Go to menu manager, select "main menu" and add a menu item called (like in our example) "Fiction". Choose "List - Content section" and then, "Fiction". When you saved it (don't forget to select "published" option) a new menu item will appear on your main menu called "Fiction". Click on it, you'll see the list of categories you created: Science-fiction, Thriller, Romance... Select a category and all the items entered under this category will be listed. Click one of the items and read it

You may also want the newly entered items to appear on the frontpage. Just select "show on frontpage" box on content item screen, and the new items will appear with their headlines and intro paragraphs on the frontpage, with a link just below them which reads "continue.." If a visitor would like to read the rest, he/she can click on this link. When entering the articles, news or other content items, use the double text boxes to define the intro part and the rest.

Not everything on a web site need to be dynamic. You'll probably also need some static pages, like "About our company" or "My Biography", or "Privacy Policy" or... so on... You can create some static pages with Mambo, using the "Static content Manager". Just click "New" and design your page. If you want to, you can also add a link to it on one of your menus.

[Hezeel]

Bump.
Just the answer I was searching for today :D

I was trying to modify the menu (in Joomla), so I could have the main menu on some pages & a partial copy of my main menu (home + a couple of other key pages) with some of my sub-sections show up on other pages, but looks like this is the closest way to do that.