Introduction

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

A Parent Department can only contain Child Departments, and cannot contain products.

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.  The Parent Department is normally given a round number (such as 100 or 500 or 30000), and the Child Departments are normally given numbers immediately after (101, 105, 110).

Enter a name for the Parent Department (such as Home Furnishings).

The Description appears when a customer clicks on the Parent 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.