Your clients need ways to navigate the categories that you setup with the software. We felt that different page may need different ways to navigate the site and so created many category navigation to give you flexibility around your site. For instance, you can display your categories in a single column format in one location and/or multiple columns on another page of your site. Additionally, each category module contains its own switches and settings for the displaying the font types, colors, category counts, 'new' icons, etc.

Note that different editions of our software have different category navigation modules available. Please make sure that the edition you purchase has the category navigation modules you will need. You can always upgrade if needed later though.

This module allows you to display a listing of the current subcategories the client is currently browsing. If your client is not currently browsing a category this module will display your site main categories by default. If the client is browsing categories this module will display the currently browsed category's subcategories.

This module allows you to display a listing of your site's "Main" categories no matter where it is displayed. You can specify the number of columns to display, a category icon, 'new listing' icon, listing count, etc. You also have the ability to turn 'on' the use and display each Main Category's subcategories. This module will display the same same set of "Main" categories regardless of which page on your site the visitor is browsing. Subcategory navigation can be displayed using the previously mentioned filter above or by providing a Category Tree Display Module.

<tip c n>If you do not display category counts within this module….Since this modules content may never change once configured the way you wish you may wish to "hard code" the html this module produces directly into your page templates or html modules where ever they need to be displayed. All you simply need do is copy the html produced by the module and paste directly into the html design where you wish it go. Please note that if you do this any changes to categories within the category admin tool or changes within this modules admin tool will have no effect on this html. You would then need to edit the html directly to "apply" changes in the admin to that html.</tip>

This module allows you to display a specific category structure regardless of where the visitor is browsing on your site. For instance, you may have a standard site category structure on your category pages, but also want to bring special attention to one of your other categories. For example, you could display the "Automobiles" category structure (above) somewhere on the same page as your Real Estate category. Within this admin tool you choose the category from which you wish this module to display the immediate subcategories of. Only the immediate subcategories of the category chosen will be displayed not the subcategories of those subcategories. Only one level of subcategories are displayed.

<tip c n>If you do not display category counts within this module….Since this modules content may never change once configured the way you wish you may wish to "hard code" the html this module produces directly into your page templates or html modules where ever they need to be displayed. All you simply need do is copy the html produced by the module and paste directly into the html design where you wish it go. Please note that if you do this any changes to categories within the category admin tool or changes within this modules admin tool will have no effect on this html. You would then need to edit the html directly to "apply" changes in the admin to that html.</tip>

This category navigation module displays an html dropdown of the categories setup within the software. If this has been placed within a page the html dropdown will display the categories of the site starting with the main level categories. If the browsing client clicks on any of the categories displayed within the dropdown they will automatically be redirected to that category for browsing.

By default this module will display only the main level categories. There are configurations within this admin tool to have the module display subcategories also. If this is done the subcategories of a category will be displayed slightly indented within the category dropdown under their parent category. If you do choose to display the subcategories you can choose how many levels of categories below the main category you wish to display using the "number of subcategories to display" admin tool.

<tip c n>Please note with the Category Dropdown module that since more than one level of categories can be displayed that using this module can slow the software a bit if your site has thousands of categories within it. When you choose to display more than one level of categories to check that the speed of the page using this module isn't slowed significantly. The more levels of categories displayed the more "content" your clients need to download to display the page. When thousands of categories are displayed this can significantly slow the software. So use this module is such a way that your clients can still navigate your site quickly.</tip>

<tip c n>Since this modules content may never change once configured the way you wish you may wish to "hard code" the html this module produces directly into your page templates or html modules where ever they need to be displayed. All you simply need do is copy the html produced by the module and paste directly into the html design where you wish it go. Please note that if you do this any changes to categories within the category admin tool or changes within this modules admin tool will have no effect on this html. You would then need to edit the html directly to "apply" changes in the admin to that html.</tip>

(EXCEPT the Category Dropdown Modules)

You can choose to display subcategories below the constituent parent categories if you wish. The software also give you a way to choose the "separator" the software uses in between those subcategories. You can setup the content that will appear before and after the subcategory list. You can also setup the content that will be displayed before and after each subcategory in the list. This content can be simply abbreviation or html to format those subcategories. This allows great flexibility as to how that subcategory list can appear.