This guide provides a step-by-step approach to creating a navigation menu in PodUp, essential for enhancing user experience on your website. It simplifies the process of organizing and managing your site's links, making it easier for visitors to navigate different sections. By following these instructions, you can create a clear and functional navigation structure, including dropdown menus, that improves accessibility and engagement on your site.
1. Nav Builder
Navigation menu: The roadmap for your website visitors. It's a collection of links, usually displayed prominently at the top of a webpage, that allows users to easily find and access different sections or pages of your website
2. Click "My Site"
3. Click "Nav Builder"
4. Click the "Navigation Name" field and enter the name then click "Create Navigation"
5. You will enter the "Add Navigation Items" page
You can define the content and structure of your website's navigation. It's the central hub for managing what links appear in your menu, how they are organized, and where they lead
6. Click "Categories" and select the categories you want to include. The categories that appear here have been created in "Categories" under "Create"
Once you have selected the categories, click "Add to Navigation"
7. Click "Pages" to add a page link to the Navigation. The pages here have been created in "Page Builder" in "My Site"
Once you have selected the pages click "Add to Navigation"
8. Click "Posts" to add a post to Navigation. These are the files you have posted or that have a "Published" status
Once you have selected the post "Add to Navigation"
9. You can enter a "URL" in Navigation through the URL field and enter the Link text.
Once you have entered the link and the link name, click "Add to Navigation"
10. Once you have added the needed elements to the Navigation
All the selected elements will be presented as a list
You can move the element using the 6 dots on the side as shown in the image. Click the 6 dots icon and hold it as you drag it to the desired place
11. To add a dropdown list to your Navigation, reposition the elements (as shown in the image)
12. The dropdown list will appear (website view) as shown
13. You can change the link name by clicking the down arrow in respective element
Once entered, click "Save" to keep the name or "Delete" to remove that element
14. Click "Save Navigation" to save the progress that you made
15. Click the back arrow to return to the main page
16. Check "Set As Default" for the navigation that you want to be the default menu for your website
A popup will appear to inform you that you have successfull changed the menu
17. Click "Build" to return to the navigation builder to edit the menu
18. Click "Edit" to edit the name of the navigation menu