Using taxonomy_menu to replicate Joomla sections and categories

If you are coming from Joomla! you have not doubt run into some frustrations trying to get Drupal's menus setup the way you want.  The taxonomy_menu module provides an easy way to setup a very similar system in Drupal.  Like most things in Drupal there is a lot more than one way to solve this problem but this is the one that works best for me.

Here are the basic steps:

Install and enable modules:
pathauto
taxonomy_menu
token
views

Now create your taxonomy
Leave type as default

admin/build/menu/settings
Set source for secondary link to primary links (Garland theme specific)

admin/build/views
enable taxonomy_term
edit taxonomy_term
click Argument - Taxonomy Term ID (with depth)

Set depth to 1
Enable Set the breadcumb for term parents

Now fix the url
admin/build/path/pathauto

Automated alias settings
taxonomy term paths
set default path patten to [catpath-raw]

Node paths
set default path pattern to [termpath-raw]/[title-raw]