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I'm brand new to Joomla but after browsing around a demo site and doing some reading I think it may be the solution I'm looking for. I just have one question regarding navigation.

The site I'm building will need a fairly complex navigation system. The organization I work for offers many programs open to their clients. Each program is represented by its own set of pages on the website. This set of pages is comprised of: "Info", "Dates", "Pricing", "Contacts", etc. Totaling about 5 pages for each program.

To navigate between these pages, we'd like to have a horizontal navigation that is standard between all program pages. This nav bar will link between pages that are in a given program set but won't link to others. Is there a way to accomplish this in Joomla without having to manually create links on each page for all 70 programs?

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joomla supports navigation with the help of menus. There are components and modules written to support menus. like com_menu and mod_menu. The table which contains menu structure is jos_menus. To see and create menu structure you can login to admin section and click on menu and create menus.If you need more info let me know.

sushil bharwani
Sounds good! I did a little research and it looks like I should be able to set the programs as categories and find a module to automatically create a menu based on the content in those categories.
Vecta
If you are creating Site Navigation you should try to use Menus rather than categories. Categories solve different purpose (tagging) in joomla. And at a point when you will need sub navigation. You will be stuck with categories.
sushil bharwani