Making a New Link to your Article

I need to check this article in the browser to make sure it looks okay, and I'd like people to be able to find it. To do this, I need to create a menu item that, when clicked, will take people to this article. It's fairly easy and something you'll need to learn how to do. Even if you don't have a website and don't know what a computer is and live in a cave and only drink water and eat berries, you still need to know how to do this.

1. Back in the admin area,  (I usually keep several tabs open at the same time, one to preview the site, one to work on articles, and another to navigate to other parts of the administration back-end) mouse over "Menus" up at the top and click on the menu you want to change. Typically it will be the Main menu. 
2. You'll see all the menu items for this particular menu. Since we're making a new item, click "New" in the upper right.
3. Next, you will need to select the menu type. You can have a menu go to all sorts of things besides articles. For now, we're just going to make a menu item that goes to this article. Click Articles. Then click "Article Layout."
   
   

A new window will appear for selecting the correct article. There are several items you need to change here:

1. First, type in how you want the menu to read. Keep it short and expressive.
2. Where do you want your menu to appear. You can have sub-menus of sub-menus if you want. For this example, this new article will be a sub-menu of "Tutorials>Joomla." (I once had a menu appear on a submarine. It took days to figure out what was going on. Luckily, I found on online tutorial, much like this helpful one!)
3. I need to find this article, so I'm going to click "Select."
   
   
4. Yet another window will pop-up. It's going to help if you remember your section and category if you have a large site. Otherwise, you'll have to browse through possibly hundreds of listings. You may have to hire a team of people who do nothing but remember where  you put things. I know that would help me. "Hey, team-member person! Where did I put my keys? Hey, remember-guy-person-team-dude. Where did I put that article?"
   I know I should remember my team's names, but then I'd have to hire even more people to remember their names. Okay, I digress.
   Just find the article title you want and click it. The window below will disappear and put you back to the menu item type editing window. Only now, there's something in the parameters (basic) field -- you're article you just clicked on.
   
   
5. Last but very important, you'll want to give this a page title. Usually by default, the page title will be whatever you called your article. However your site can be setup differently, so it's best to just put in your page title here. It can be whatever you want, but keep in mind this is important for search engines when they're indexing your site. Typically you'll not want to show the page title.
   
   
6. Click save or apply and go view your page in a browser.

You have just created an article and a new menu item linked to that article. (Not that I needed to tell you that, but hey, I have to finish this article somehow)!