Create a navigation menu
Valid for MyWebsite Now.
Navigation menus guide visitors to your MyWebsite Now project through your website. This article explains how to create the navigation for your online project.
Calling up the MyWebsite Now editor
- Log in to your IONOS account.
- Click on the Websites & Shops tile. If you have multiple website contracts, click Manage Website in the appropriate tile. The Presence Suite for this project opens.
- In the Presence Suite menu bar, select Website Editor. MyWebsite Now opens in a new window.
Create standard navigation
A standard navigation is created from the page structure that you have defined via the MyWebsite Now menu item Pages. The Help Centre article "Managing pages" explains how to do this. The default navigation can only contain pages from your MyWebsite Now project.
To select a default navigation:
- Click on Contents in the menu bar of the MyWebsite Now website editor.
- In the detailed view of the header or footer, move the mouse pointer over the top right-hand corner of the navigation element until the Manage and Design buttons are displayed.
- Click on Manage > Default. The default navigation is used.
Create customised navigation
Custom navigations can contain pages of your MyWebsite Now project and links to other Internet pages.
To create a customised navigation:
- Click on Content in the menu bar of the MyWebsite Now website editor.
- In the detail view of the header or footer, move the mouse pointer over the top right-hand corner of the navigation element until the Manage and Design buttons are displayed.
- Click on Manage > Custom.
- Click the Add page button to create additional navigation elements.
The navigation element contains icons for further editing:
- Triangle icon: Displays the Add a link entry and a selection list of existing MyWebsite Now pages. Use Add a link to add a URL as a menu item. Navigation elements with an external link are always opened in a new window.
- Trash icon: Deletes the corresponding navigation element.
- Arrow symbol: Allows you to move the navigation element by holding down the left mouse button.
- Pencil icon: The pencil icon is only displayed if an external URL has already been entered for the navigation element. Select the symbol to edit the name and external URL.
No navigation menu is displayed
No navigation menu for switching between the pages of your web project is displayed in your website project.
- In the website detail view, move the mouse pointer over the top left-hand corner of a header or footer until the Header options or Footer options are displayed.
- Click on the displayed Header options or Footer options button.
- Activate the eye symbol displayed in the Elements > Navigation tab. It must not be crossed out.
- Click on the Done button to save your changes.
