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Please edit and proof-read this text. I will then update the admin manual.  Please read: Guidelines for Editing and Proof-reading:

http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/topic,437.0.html

Please publish your work here in this thread.
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Blog - Content Category

http://help.joomla.org/content/view/1541/196/ (Link updated 11/9/2005)

Check out for proofing--10/16/05

Checked in.  Made all entries complete sentences.  Tightened style to conform to Draft Style manual. Created examples for the use of layout numbers.  Fixed formatting.

I'm not sure this is ready for final review.  I'd like to take another look at it after leaving it for a while.

Great! thanks!

Usagi,

Were you still going to look at this one or did you want Michelle or I to review it for possible transfer to the help site?

Charles

Usagi/Charles,

I'll review this one another night. 

Thanks Michelle, let me know if you want me to go over it too.

Charles

The editing of this help screen is still uncompleted.  I just published it here so I can come back to it another day.  So consider it

Checked Out for editing.

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The Blog - Content Category Menu Item adds a link that lists published items from the Content Categories in a "blog" format. The blog format displays articles as a series of short summaries of items.
Details:
Name : Type here the name of the Menu Item as it will appear on the menu on your site.

Category : Select all, one or multiple categories.
Category : Select all, one or multiple categories that you wish to show up as a blog presentation on your Web site.

URL: The URL for this item will show after clicking Apply/Save.
URL: The URL for this menu item will show after clicking the ‘Save’or ‘Apply’ icon.

Parent Item: Select Top if you want the menu item to appear at the same level as your primary navigation menu. You can also put the item under an existing menu by selecting the existing menu item as the item's parent.
Parent Item: Select ‘Top’, if you want the menu item to appear at the same level as your primary navigation menu. You can also put the menu item under an existing menu item by selecting a menu item as the item's parent.

Ordering: By default, Joomla adds new items to the end of the existing menu items list. After saving or applying the new item, you can change its order. Use the pull-down menu to select the item after which the new item will appear.
Ordering: By default, Joomla adds new items to the end of the existing menu items list. After clicking either the ‘Save’ or the ‘Apply’ icon to save the new menu item, you can change its order. Select from the drop-down list the menu item after which the new item will appear. ??? (orange colour means this sentence needs rewriting)

Access Level: Sets the user level required to view the item.
Access Level: Select from the list the user level required to view the item on your Web site.

Published: Sets whether the menu item is published or not. By default, new menu items are published.
Published: Choose ‘No’ to keep this menu item unpublished or choose ‘Yes’ to publish it. By default, new menu items are published.

Parameters:
Menu Image: Sets an image to appear to beside the menu item. To show an image, in Modules -> Site Modules -> [name-of-menu], set the "Show Menu Items" option in the parameters to "Yes". Load the menu image to the /images/stories directory.

Menu Image:  Choose from the drop-down list either to show an image or not in front of the menu item on your Web site.  To show an image, you will first need to upload your image to the …/images/stories directory.  Then you will have to configure in Modules -> Site Modules -> [name-of-menu] and in the Parameters section - Show Menu Icons select the ‘Yes’ radio button.  For more indepth explanation of the this step, please read the Help Screen ‘Menu Manager : Main Menu and other Menus’.
Note: the following link will be included in the text ‘Menu Manager : Main Menu and other Menus’ once we transfer this text to the help site.
http://help.joomla.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=67&Itemid=153&mosmsg=Item+succesfully+saved.

Select from the drop-down list the menu item after which the new item will appear.

Possibly:  Choose a menu item from the drop-down list that you would like the new item to appear after.

Maybe something like that?

Charles,

Sounds better!  All I did was change the text to green.

Choose a menu item from the drop-down list that you would like the new item to appear after.

You can now transfer this text to the help site and update the changelog 1.0x

Just post when you are completed

Thanks!

Great!

Checked-Out for transfer

I should have this checked back in tomorrow sometime.

Great!

One more day....

CHECKED-IN

The 1.1x and 1.0x changelog has been updated (just because I happened to update both docs).

This document is now ready for another revision.

Charles

Thanks Charles!!!

We are now ready for some fresh eyes to review this Help Screen.

Thanks!