Welcome back.
And of course, in the last lecture, I taught you how to create your very first page, your contact
Us page.
And now in this lecture I'm going to teach you something equally important your menu, how to build
a menu.
Because of course, every single e-commerce store, indeed every single website needs a menu and your
store is no exception.
Now, by default, as you've seen, we have some sort of default menu.
We have home and we have catalog.
And it's at this point which if you're paying attention and I'm sure you are, you might be thinking
to yourself, hang on a second.
They used to be a contact one here as well.
So where's that gone?
Well, you'll remember that we deleted the original contact Us page, and when we did that, it also
removed the menu item.
But that's absolutely perfect because it gives me the opportunity to show you how to add in a new menu
item, how to start building your very first menu.
So let's go ahead and get started.
And of course, to do that we need to head back to the admin system.
And this time I'd like you to come over here where you see content.
Click on content which will then open up this little submenu where you can then select menus where for
the moment I want to draw your attention to the main menu, where you can see that there are two menu
items Home and Catalog, which of course correspond directly with the main menu on your store, home
and catalog.
Now, as you know, what we want to do is to add in an additional menu item we want contact us to show
here on the right hand side.
So if I go back to the admin system and then click directly on the main menu, it's here that you can
now see the two menu items Home and Catalog.
And then just below that I have add menu item.
So of course to add a menu item all I need to do is to click on this, where I'll then need to give
it a label and also a link.
Now for the label.
That's simply the name of the page, which of course is Contact Us and then we want to link it to the
Contact Us page that we just created.
So to do that, all I need to do is to click into this box where it then opens up this menu where you
can see pages.
And if And if I click on pages, it presents me with all the pages on my site.
Now, of course, at the moment we've only got one page, which is the contact us page, the one we
want.
So I'll select this and then come over here where you see this little tick and simply click on it.
And now you can see I have three menu items home catalogue.
And of course contact us.
So now let's have a look and see how that looks on the site itself.
But before I go over to the site I will need to save this, which I can do by either clicking on this
save button at the bottom or the save button towards the top.
So I'll click on the save button at the top here, and then head back to the store and then refresh
the page.
But just before I do that, keep an eye on this part here, okay?
So as I refresh the page, Contact us appears as a menu item and when I click on it, it brings up the
contact us page that we created.
Everything works exactly as we would expect.
And with that done, I really hope you can see how quick and simple it is to add a menu item or indeed
to build a menu.
Because if now I wanted to add another menu item, then all I need to do is to return to the admin system
and then click once again on add menu item.
You can also see that when I hover over each item, it's very easy to either edit the item itself by
clicking on this little pencil icon or simply delete it entirely.
And I can also change the order, and I can do that by placing my cursor directly on these little dots
where you see it now changes to a hand, and then I'll hold down my mouse button and then simply move
it to the new position.
So you can see now that it reads home, contact us and catalogue.
But for the moment I'm going to return it to its original position, because that's the way I like it
all incredibly powerful, all incredibly simple.
Maybe at the beginning of this lecture, you were thinking to yourself, wow, it's probably going to
be quite difficult to build a menu.
But once again, it's the power of Shopify.
As I've said a couple of times now, you don't need any technical skills.
It's all point and click.
And I really hope now that you're starting to see that that is exactly the case.
Now, of course, as we go through the course, we're going to be adding additional menu items to our
menu.
But it's all going to be using the same process that I just showed you.
You now know how to build a menu with Shopify.
So at this point in the course I want to really emphasize something, and that is that I really want
you to succeed with this business and to show you how serious I am about that.
Not only do you have the course itself for life and all of the updates that will go with it, but in
addition, I offer free mentoring.
I don't know if there are any other instructors out there that offer that level of service, but it
really is important to me.
Now, in a few lectures time, I'm going to show you what that actually means and how you can get in
contact with me.
But in the meantime, I really want to encourage you to take action.
Often taking action is the difference between success and failure.
Clearly, if you don't take any action at all, you're not going to actually build a business.
So I really hope that you're following along with me through these lectures as you build your store.
And on that note, if you haven't done so already, now might be a great time to go back to lecture
three and kick off your Shopify free trial.