Most of the times in Joomla you might want to make a link to a page without having to have it in a navigation menu somewhere. Examples might include:
* Forms,PDFs
* A Google AdWords landing page
* Any advertisement page
What you have to undertsand is that in Joomla, a page can not exist until there is a link in the main menu to it somewhere. But, we just say that we didn't want it linked on any navigation. Well, here is the method, the menu that doesn't show the link in the main menu of the site...
Follow these steps:
1. Make a category for the pages (or they could all be static pages)
2. Make a menu to "hold" the links to these pages. I made on called newmenu. You can put them all on this one
3. Make an item called "The New Menu". It can be blank
4. Publish the module that outputs the "newmenu".
5. Note the link to the "The New Menu" page.
6. Set the newmenu module to only show on "The New Menu" page
Now, Any time you need a link to pages/categories that don't have a link from the main menu, just make the link in the "newmenu". Then go to that page you noted in 5 above and the link should be there. Just right-click and "copy link location" and you have your URL.
