Joomla Category Organising in 1.7

[chappers11050]

Hi all, does anyone know of a good way of organising articles/categories, other than boring plain lists in Joomla 1.7. Ive seen extensions/plugins but didnt realy want to go down that route if it wasnt nessasary. The only other thing I thought of was making an article that links to these and emending it for different sections of the site/s, but that wouldnt be ideal either.

Thanks in advance

[rush_tech]

When you say organising do you mean a site map?

[chappers11050]

no, i mean when users are navigating around the site. eg a user clicks on curriculum on the main menu, then in our current site this takes you to a page with a list of the different options, this is the page I would like to change in Joomla 1.7 to something more user friendly and dynamic.

[rush_tech]

have you got a link?

[chappers11050]

it wouldnt let me post it, have to have 2 posts, so i guess it will be ok now, Teignmouth Community School - Our Curriculum

[rush_tech]

Oh I see the menu item is a category list, I'm just playing with 1.7 now to upgrade our site I'm not planning on using the category list menu, what I have done is either create a blank link or a page as you said with icons(curriculum link in the top menu) on it to different pages with in that menu

[PeteW]

Why don't you use the "blog" layout option instead of the category list for the menu item? You can always publish the sub-category list in a module position or use drop-out menus.

Then use the links Rush suggested.

And on a side note, J2.5 was released yesterday with J1.7 support stopping in 29 days time. Very similar to 1.7 but with lots of extra stuff.