WEBVTT 00:00.160 --> 00:00.840 Welcome back. 00:00.840 --> 00:05.480 And of course, in the last lecture, I taught you how to create your very first page, your contact 00:05.520 --> 00:06.040 Us page. 00:06.240 --> 00:11.720 And now in this lecture I'm going to teach you something equally important your menu, how to build 00:11.720 --> 00:12.360 a menu. 00:12.480 --> 00:18.040 Because of course, every single e-commerce store, indeed every single website needs a menu and your 00:18.040 --> 00:19.680 store is no exception. 00:19.800 --> 00:23.600 Now, by default, as you've seen, we have some sort of default menu. 00:23.680 --> 00:25.920 We have home and we have catalog. 00:26.040 --> 00:30.520 And it's at this point which if you're paying attention and I'm sure you are, you might be thinking 00:30.520 --> 00:31.880 to yourself, hang on a second. 00:32.000 --> 00:34.440 They used to be a contact one here as well. 00:34.640 --> 00:35.680 So where's that gone? 00:35.760 --> 00:40.760 Well, you'll remember that we deleted the original contact Us page, and when we did that, it also 00:40.760 --> 00:42.520 removed the menu item. 00:42.520 --> 00:49.040 But that's absolutely perfect because it gives me the opportunity to show you how to add in a new menu 00:49.040 --> 00:52.440 item, how to start building your very first menu. 00:52.560 --> 00:54.000 So let's go ahead and get started. 00:54.000 --> 00:57.360 And of course, to do that we need to head back to the admin system. 00:58.160 --> 01:02.160 And this time I'd like you to come over here where you see content. 01:02.280 --> 01:08.840 Click on content which will then open up this little submenu where you can then select menus where for 01:08.840 --> 01:14.480 the moment I want to draw your attention to the main menu, where you can see that there are two menu 01:14.480 --> 01:22.120 items Home and Catalog, which of course correspond directly with the main menu on your store, home 01:22.120 --> 01:22.880 and catalog. 01:23.240 --> 01:28.800 Now, as you know, what we want to do is to add in an additional menu item we want contact us to show 01:28.800 --> 01:30.240 here on the right hand side. 01:30.800 --> 01:37.200 So if I go back to the admin system and then click directly on the main menu, it's here that you can 01:37.200 --> 01:40.280 now see the two menu items Home and Catalog. 01:40.440 --> 01:44.000 And then just below that I have add menu item. 01:44.040 --> 01:49.200 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 01:49.200 --> 01:51.720 it a label and also a link. 01:52.160 --> 01:53.160 Now for the label. 01:53.160 --> 01:59.280 That's simply the name of the page, which of course is Contact Us and then we want to link it to the 01:59.280 --> 02:01.720 Contact Us page that we just created. 02:01.960 --> 02:07.280 So to do that, all I need to do is to click into this box where it then opens up this menu where you 02:07.280 --> 02:08.720 can see pages. 02:08.960 --> 02:13.400 And if And if I click on pages, it presents me with all the pages on my site. 02:13.600 --> 02:18.760 Now, of course, at the moment we've only got one page, which is the contact us page, the one we 02:18.760 --> 02:19.240 want. 02:19.520 --> 02:25.320 So I'll select this and then come over here where you see this little tick and simply click on it. 02:25.600 --> 02:29.880 And now you can see I have three menu items home catalogue. 02:29.880 --> 02:31.640 And of course contact us. 02:32.080 --> 02:35.320 So now let's have a look and see how that looks on the site itself. 02:35.560 --> 02:40.720 But before I go over to the site I will need to save this, which I can do by either clicking on this 02:40.840 --> 02:44.160 save button at the bottom or the save button towards the top. 02:44.320 --> 02:50.120 So I'll click on the save button at the top here, and then head back to the store and then refresh 02:50.120 --> 02:50.720 the page. 02:50.720 --> 02:54.600 But just before I do that, keep an eye on this part here, okay? 02:54.640 --> 03:01.760 So as I refresh the page, Contact us appears as a menu item and when I click on it, it brings up the 03:01.760 --> 03:04.120 contact us page that we created. 03:04.240 --> 03:07.040 Everything works exactly as we would expect. 03:07.240 --> 03:13.670 And with that done, I really hope you can see how quick and simple it is to add a menu item or indeed 03:13.710 --> 03:14.790 to build a menu. 03:14.950 --> 03:20.750 Because if now I wanted to add another menu item, then all I need to do is to return to the admin system 03:20.910 --> 03:24.030 and then click once again on add menu item. 03:24.150 --> 03:30.350 You can also see that when I hover over each item, it's very easy to either edit the item itself by 03:30.350 --> 03:34.310 clicking on this little pencil icon or simply delete it entirely. 03:34.590 --> 03:41.430 And I can also change the order, and I can do that by placing my cursor directly on these little dots 03:41.550 --> 03:47.030 where you see it now changes to a hand, and then I'll hold down my mouse button and then simply move 03:47.030 --> 03:48.430 it to the new position. 03:48.430 --> 03:51.790 So you can see now that it reads home, contact us and catalogue. 03:51.990 --> 03:57.230 But for the moment I'm going to return it to its original position, because that's the way I like it 03:57.230 --> 04:00.110 all incredibly powerful, all incredibly simple. 04:00.110 --> 04:03.270 Maybe at the beginning of this lecture, you were thinking to yourself, wow, it's probably going to 04:03.270 --> 04:05.110 be quite difficult to build a menu. 04:05.110 --> 04:07.390 But once again, it's the power of Shopify. 04:07.710 --> 04:11.510 As I've said a couple of times now, you don't need any technical skills. 04:11.510 --> 04:12.870 It's all point and click. 04:13.070 --> 04:17.270 And I really hope now that you're starting to see that that is exactly the case. 04:17.270 --> 04:22.470 Now, of course, as we go through the course, we're going to be adding additional menu items to our 04:22.470 --> 04:22.830 menu. 04:22.830 --> 04:26.430 But it's all going to be using the same process that I just showed you. 04:26.510 --> 04:29.110 You now know how to build a menu with Shopify. 04:29.790 --> 04:35.430 So at this point in the course I want to really emphasize something, and that is that I really want 04:35.430 --> 04:39.790 you to succeed with this business and to show you how serious I am about that. 04:39.790 --> 04:44.550 Not only do you have the course itself for life and all of the updates that will go with it, but in 04:44.550 --> 04:46.910 addition, I offer free mentoring. 04:46.990 --> 04:51.550 I don't know if there are any other instructors out there that offer that level of service, but it 04:51.550 --> 04:53.230 really is important to me. 04:53.390 --> 04:57.190 Now, in a few lectures time, I'm going to show you what that actually means and how you can get in 04:57.190 --> 04:58.190 contact with me. 04:58.190 --> 05:01.710 But in the meantime, I really want to encourage you to take action. 05:01.910 --> 05:05.710 Often taking action is the difference between success and failure. 05:05.750 --> 05:09.830 Clearly, if you don't take any action at all, you're not going to actually build a business. 05:10.190 --> 05:14.710 So I really hope that you're following along with me through these lectures as you build your store. 05:15.070 --> 05:19.550 And on that note, if you haven't done so already, now might be a great time to go back to lecture 05:19.550 --> 05:22.070 three and kick off your Shopify free trial.