Beginning Drupal 8

Chapter 7 ■ Creating Menus
Figure 7-1. Menus on a site
From top to bottom, the menus are
• the Administrative menu, starting with Manage;
• the Administrative submenu bar at the top of the page, starting with Content;
• the User account menu (top of the header), with My account and Log out;
• the Main navigation menu, starting with the Home tab;
• the Tools menu in the left column, starting with Add content; and
• the Footer menu, starting with Contact.
Menus help a visitor to a site understand (and access) the content, features, and functions that the site
provides.
On our example site that we’re creating in this book, the menus shown on the page are all text links.
Drupal also provides mechanisms for creating menus that are button and/or image based.
Creating menus is facilitated through a set of screens that are part of Drupal 8 core. There are three
basic activities for creating menus and items that appear on menus:
• Adding an item to an existing menu. Drupal 8 comes with several menus already
created. All you need to do is to add items to those menus.
• Creating a new menu. If you need more than the five menus that come with Drupal 8,
you can create a new one.
• Assigning the menu to a region of on a page. If you created a new menu, you’ll need
to assign it to a region on the page.
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