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Brady - 06 May 2008 11:19 AM

I want to use it for product-specific landing pages. 

For example, we sell laptop bags, so I want to create a landing page that includes all 17” laptop bags for women.  By creating a new category, I can easily assign products to this 17” laptop bags page,

I am thinking more along with Johannes…
Wouldn’t an attribute ‘17” bags for her’ in the layered nav works better and easier?
You can have a ancestor-descendant relationship, like

For woman
- 17 “ laptop bags
- bags for Airbooks
- bags for PDA

The results are the same with the title still showing the parent name
Except the url address, that one shows yoursite/woman/17_laptop_bag
and the other shows: yousite/catalog/category/view/cat/6/id/3/

Otherwise, ‘display:none’ for the second level of menu in the CSS - I did that, but I did that for other reason because client wanted something very specific. ‘display:none’ isn’t a solution but a temporarily workaround so far, no pretty; I actually wanted to display none starts from third level but it doesn’t work (more precisely, haven’t quite figure out); also thought of disabling the childCategories in the Navigation.php eventually, however right now I am still playing with different ideas and results, so it’s not set yet.

Here is the result:
http://74.52.59.43/shop-by-phone-model
The eight logos are the subcategories, I added each one from the add image option. Big thanks to Pablo and Dunk from this thread:
http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/viewthread/3770/#t28217

There will be sub-sub categories for each brand however I haven’t set it up yet, but if you click on Motorola, it will bring you to MOTO Q, which is the subcategory of Motorola.

You see that I am still keeping the Category attribute in the layered Nav, it’s because I haven’t decide which option we will be ended up with.

It’s quite a hack to get it work, hopefully Magento will release a feature like this soon as it seems the demand is high.

Personally I prefer the layered nav filtering, but I get paid to do what I am asked to, so my opinion cannot count