Introduction

This article helps you learn how to add a Child Department to your eMerchantClub e-commerce Web site.

A Child Department can only contain products, and cannot contain other departments.  A Child Department must reside under a Parent Department (meaning, it must be assigned to a Parent Department).

Instructions

Step 1:  Create the department

Enter your Site Manager.

Click the Departments link.

Click the Add Parent Department button.

Step 2:  Configure the department

The Department ID is a number unique to this department.  Child Departments are normally given numbers immediately following Parent Department IDs.

Choose which Parent Department this new department is a Child of.

Enter a name for the Child Department (such as Lounge Chairs).

The Description appears when a customer clicks on the Child Department.

The title tag appears on the top-left of your customer’s Web browser.

Example of a title tag.

Meta tags are hidden text that search engines use when they crawl your site.  You must use HTML codes to enter the meta tags.  (Meta tag tutor)

This setting determines how many products your site puts on a particular department page.

This determines how many “best seller” type products to display to customers who enter this department.

Hiding a department makes the department invisible to your customers, but not to you.

Click  to finish creating the department.