The General Information tab

The General Information tab
1. Enter a Name for the Category. It will be displayed in your storefront.

2. For the Is AcIve seNng, selecNng Yes makes the Category visible to customers.
SelecNng No will hide this Category and its subcategories in your store.

3. The URL Key enables you to enter a search engine friendly path for this Category. If you leave this field blank, Magento will put the name of the Category into this field. Conversely, you can enter the URL path that you want to use for this Category on your site. You cannot enter spaces into this field.

4. The DescripIon that you enter here will appear on the Category's landing page.

5. The Image that you upload will also appear on the Category's landing page.

6. The Page Title appears in the browser's Ntle bar when a customer selects this Category. This is not the same as the Name. The Name appears in the NavigaNon Menu at the top of the page, not in the browser's Ntle bar.

7. The Meta Keywords and Meta DescripIon appear in meta tags, in the page's HTML code. Enter some informaNon about this page, which you think will help search engines to properly categorize this page.
Use Meta Keywords and Meta DescripIon as opportuniNes to opNmize the page for search engines.

8. For Display Mode, selecNng Products only will cause the Category's landing page to display a list of products from that Category. SelecNng StaIc block only will display only the StaNc Block of your choice, and no Products. SelecNng StaIc block and products will display both.

9. If you chose to show a StaNc Block, use the CMS Block seNng to specify which Block to display.

10. If you want this Category to appear in the NavigaNon Menu, select Yes for Is Anchor.

11. Click on Save Category.

This completes the General InformaIon tab for the Category. There are two other tabs, Category Products and Custom Design. These are opNonal. You have done what you need to get this Category to work in your store.

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CUSTOMIZING USING T HE SKIN FILES

Manipulation images and CSS can customize a Magento theme very effectively and efficiently. If you recall from an earlier example, the blue theme in Community Edition differs from the default theme only in the CSS. Do not use CSS visibility to turn on and off Magento blocks and content; use it to do all of your site

styling.

Because Magento has so much built-in functionality  wrapped in pre-defined divs, until you are fairly experienced with theming in Magento, it is often best to start with existing style sheets and modify them to fit your branding and look.  When you are more experienced with Magento, you can start from scratch or layer in your favorite framework. If you do start with existing CSS and images, be sure to download and install a

tool like the Firebug plug-in for Firefox, which will help you see which CSS is controlling  the formatting of every element on the page.

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