Set up Categories
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PLAN YOUR SHOP
It is best to have a clear plan of your shop organisation of categories and products before starting.
Give some thought to the organisation from the perspective of your customers so they will find navigation and therefore find your products easily.
Categories can contain more categories (sub-categories) or products but not both (although advanced users can make Phoenix do anything).
Sub-categories can have more sub-categories and so on to create a category tree.
You will also need pictures of your products optimised for viewing on the internet - this means they need to have a small file size so they do not take up too much memory or take too long to load whilst still being of a quality good enough for viewing.
For most images it is advised to save them all the same size on a square background of 500px - 800px with a file size 20kb - 30kb. Image optimisation software is freely available - e.g. for less than 100 images do it online with TinyPNG or for more, do it on your computer with GIMP.
From admin go to Catalog → Categories/Products
If you chose to include sample products when you installed Phoenix you will see this.
If you are ready to make changes these can be deleted - click the folder icon for the category to show the products it contains.
Click on a product in the list and click Delete and repeat for each product - click Back and then click on the category in the list and then click Delete Repeat until all products and categories have been deleted.
SET UP CATEGORIES
Click New Category - you will see this:
- Category Name - enter the name.
- Category Title for SEO - leave blank or enter something different to the category name if required.
- Category Description - enter a description to show on the category page.
- Category Meta Description for SEO - think of this as a short description of about 30 words.
- Category Meta Keywords for SEO - single,words,comma,separated
- Category Image - click Choose file to upload an image from your computer.
- Sort Order - enter a sort order value to order your categories.
Read more about Search Engine Optimisation here - SEO
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