Page vs catalog?

I posted below but after rethinking decided to reword it and come at it from a different angle..... http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=126276

Once I add categories and products to my catalog....should they automatically show up on my page? Or do I have to do something to the page to get it to 'talk' to the catalog?

Thanks for any help you can give....I'm sorry to be such a 'noob' but I'm about ready to throw in the proverbial towel......:(

MM

Nope, once you add the categories and products in admin, they should show up on your page(s).

Can you post a link to your site?

Sure Stevesh...

Thanks for taking a look.....as you can see...I've tweaked the page a bit but I shouldn't think it would impact the catalog?

MM

http://www.santatheclaus.com/zen2

I'll forgive you just this once for that awful music which plays on page load. A big mistake, IMO.

Categories and products aside, your site isn't working right. You may have some sort of database access problem.

First thing I would do is delete all the test categories and their products, then add one category with one product, so we can see what we're dealing with.

LOL.... Sorry...haven't gotten around to deleting it from the Flash script yet......I was just playing around to see if I could get it to work first.....not a completed script by any means.....But thanks for the feedback...it confirmed what I'd already thought....ha...

I'll try deleting everything as you suggest..... Actually I had already deleted all but one of the original categories in the original install from admin.....and added a few of mine....

One thought/question..... I just eliminated the old categories thinking it would blow away the products at the same time....did I cause a problem by doing that?......maybe??

Thanks again...

MM

Music Man:

One thought/question..... I just eliminated the old categories thinking it would blow away the products at the same time....did I cause a problem by doing that?......maybe??

MM

Yet....the original catories still pull up on the site.....Hmmmmm...???

I'd guess that your permissions aren't set right, and your changes aren't actually happening. Who is your host?

Bluehost

Ok....I gave up and reloaded the the cart and reset to the database.......seems to work now..... Not sure what the problem was....now I just have to redo all my customization again....then I'm sure I'll have more questions.....

THanks for trying to help....it's nice to know someone cares enough to lend a hand....

MM

Actually, when you haven't done much in the way of customization, re-installing is probably the best option when you run into a major problem. Done it many times myself.

Well.....

I came back in today.....decided to change my categories.....so I deleted some.....guess what....they still appeared on my site..... I added new categories....they didn't show up either...... This time I KNOW I didn't do anything to corrupt the code.....it WAS working fine then suddenly pftzzzzzz

Surely this isn't supposed to be this unstable????