Joomla Sidebar help

[Nipun]

Hello people!
I am trying to learn Joomla, the content management software but I am unable to understand how to make sidebars. Basically I want a sidebar with links to other pages on my website(which are not maintained by Joomla) and other websites. Please guide me how can I do this.

[prabhu.wali]

u mean u want to create menu items

[Nipun]

Originally Posted by prabhu.wali

u mean u want to create menu items

I have created a menu & menu item, but menu item is not shown in the side bar..

[Charan]

Ah Joomla, one of the best CMS I have used.. its been more than a year since I worked on Joomla let me see if I can recall .

After you have created the menu, you need to add that to a new module. In Joomla positioning is based on Modules. Create a new Module form the modules link, select menu as type, after this you need to select the position as "SideBar" and hopefully that should put the menu in the sidebar.

I think this is what I used to do, as I dont have a Joomla Installation I cant verify this. give it a shot.

EDIT: The naming of "SideBar" may vary based on the theme selected. like it can be abc-sidebar something like that .

[Nipun]

I went to modules, there was already a module named "Sidebar(atomic template)" which was set to unpublished. I published it and its contents were shown. I guess now I can just edit it and place my links there.
Thanks!

[varindia]

Hi all, I am new here. As I know in joomla, there are div positions are there like 1,2,3,4 etc.(upto 10) You need to assign a position to a module in module manager. Left hand sidebar position is 5.