New Menu Issue

Hey guys im a begginer using Yii, ive never created a professional application in PHP, but now following the tutorial of First Yii Application (that one with home, about, contact, login, logout) with my data base 100% id like to customize my Menu.

Something like that:

IM having accents issues too (some words in the data base like, não, açucar) how can i fixed it?

CHeers!

Make sure your database uses the UTF-8 character set throughout.

Make sure your database and server encoding are match

http://www.yiiframework.com/doc/cookbook/16/

Ok thanks about the accents issues!

And the menu? how can i create a cmenu with children?