Login and go to your store

Login and go to your store

1. Login to Miva
2. Open your store clicking the PLUS icon
3. Open ListenUp Store clicking the PLUS ico

Categories - Adding Categories

Categories - Adding Categories

1. Login to Miva and navigate into your store
2. Click on Categories to view all of the categories currently in the system
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   Click on ADD next to Categories.
3. Click ADD PRODUCT highlighted in RED in snapshot.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
4. On this screen start adding your Category Code, Category Name and then click on LookUp to attach this new category to a Parent as the example shows.
   
   
5. Remember the Category code, for example - complaptops - for adding the same category to your Category drop down menu on the website.

Categories - Adding Categories onto Website drop down menu

1. Open Windows Explorer (Not Internet Explorer)
   
2. Type ftp://66.45.24.196 in the address bar. Once the dialog box appears enter your User name and Password (same used with the Contribute software)
3. After 30 seconds or less the directory will display with the listing of files and folders of the website.
4. Scroll through for the file Global_OnlineNavAreaLayout.html
5. Then select the file and copy (ctrl-c) to be pasted to your local computer. Then click on the My Documents folder and paste it there (ctrl-v).
6. Next select the Global_OnlineNavAreaLayout.html file on your local computer and then select Copy and then Paste. This will create a copy of the original file you are about to edit just in case you edit this file incorrectly.
7. Next RIGHT CLICK on the original Global_OnlineNavAreaLayout.html and look for the OPEN WITH function and click on NOTEPAD.
8. At this point do a search in the notepad program to find the category that you want to create your new category next to. For example if I want to add my new category right under Cassette Decks I will click the EDIT menu and select FIND.
9. Then I type Cassette and then hit ENTER.
   
10. This brings my cursor to this line:

1. Now highlight the Cassette Decks line HTML and all. Press CTRL - C, click ENTER Press CTRL - V.
2. Essentially you are duplicating the text and HTML.
   
   

11. Here is my example new Category entry:

See here that I changed the category code to the category code I entered for my new category at the beginning of this lesson. Then I changed the Category name to the category name entered into Miva at the beginning of this lesson.







12. COPY edited file and PASTE into the website directory:

1. Go back to your Windows explorer window with My Documents loaded. Look for the file you just edited "Global_OnlineNavAreaLayout.html" and select this file, then click CTRL - C to COPY this file.
2. Repeat step 1 and 2 to navigate to your ftp://66.45.24.196 website root directory.
3. After you log into the website at the main root directory click CTRL - P to paste your edited file into the website. The website should ask you if you want to OVERWRITE your website file. Go ahead and do that.
4. Now go to the website and REFRESH the page to load your new category into the drop down menu.
5. Is it there? If yes then test it by clicking on it.
1. If not then try to REFRESH the page again. If it still is not appearing check the steps above and find out where the problem occured.

Good Job!