Public navigation
Concepts
The navigation is divided into top-level navigation and sub-navigation. Top level navigation items will appear in the top strip of links in your site header, while sub-navigation links will be shown below when their parent top-level navigation item is selected.
Visiting different areas of the site will automatically switch the selected top-level item, so that the displayed sub-navigation items are contextually correct for the area of the site you are viewing.
Sub-navigation items can themselves have child items, which will be displayed in pop-up menus when their parent item is selected.
There are also a collection of sub-navigation items that have no parent item - these are the items that will be displayed in the header when no other top-level item is selected.
Default navigation
When you first access the public navigation tools, you will find the default navigation layout, which includes top-level navigation items for Home, Forums, What's new, and Members.
Within each of these are links that are appropriate for that area of the site, for example, within Forums are links to find threads containing your posts, or threads that you started yourself.
The Home top-level navigation item is different, in that it has no sub-navigation and acts solely as a link to the URL you specify in the Home page URL option of the main XenForo options.