How do you create sub categories

[net2malls]

I'm new to Shopsite, anybody know how to create a sub categories to an existing category?? I figured out how to assoiciate the categories, however when i view my live site, the subcategory is shown on the left of the navigation bar and not in the center of the contents of the page where sub categories should be listed.

[Jim]

You create a page that represents your main category. Then you create pages that represent your subcategories and assign them to the main category page.

Say you are selling clothes. Your main page would contain links to pages for Men, Women and Children
Next you create a Men's page, a Womans Page, a Kids page
Then you create a men's shoes, men's shirts, etc
A women's shoes, women dresses etc
a Kids shoes, kids play clothes, etc

You assign the appropriate product to the page that it belongs on
Then from the Pages screen you select a page (for example you main page )and use the Assign items feature to assign the pages that relate to that page. so for the main page you would assign the Men's page, Women's page and Kids page
For the Men's page you would do the same thing and assign the Men's shoes, Men's shirts etc
Same of women and children pages.

[net2malls]

Thank Jim, i appreciate the feedback. I understand how to create the sub categories, the problem that i am having is that the subcategory is not where i would like it to show up. If you take a look at my barely started site http://ademostore.com/ssdemos/ver100a/evaluate31/index.html i created a sub category called Abdominals under the main category Fitness Equipment. If you click on fitness equipment you will see the subcategory abdominals but it shows it all the way to the left, and i want it displayed in towards the center of the page in the white section. Any idea on how to have it show up there? Thanks

[robm]

The best way to achieve this is with a custom page template. You can then create a custom "[--DEFINE LINK_TO_PAGE--]" with how you want each sub-category to appear, and then in the main "[--DEFINE PAGE--]" section, set the LOOP LINKS in the body of the page, i.e.:

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<table>
[-- LOOP LINKS X --]<td valign="top">
  [-- LINK PAGE_TEMPLATE_NAME --]</td>
[-- END_LOOP LINKS --]
</table>

replacing X with the number of columns desired, and replacing PAGE_TEMPLATE_NAME with the actual page template name.

Then assign your category pages to this custom page template.

[net2malls]

I appreciate the feedback, but i am just no getting it. I built sites my whole life but i can't seem to get this one. I will have to call someone and see if they can walk me thru it. Thank you for your help.