The_Contractor - 3:26 pm on Feb 11, 2007 (gmt 0)

There are many ways to do it and at the same time very few ways to do it - you may have found the best way for your particular store.

I believe some of the toughest stores to do (I just completed one) are "office supplies", which offer a huge number of products, categories, and subcategories.

If you look at the major sites like Staples, OfficeMax etcetera, there really isn't a lot of flexibility for navigation...it almost has to be a "directory" presentation. This makes sense since in any store you have to "categorize" product listings vs directory listings.

Just make sure the search is accurate and will pick up "item#/SKU#" for those repeat visitors.