Thread:Thurstan/@comment-42607-20120402132959

You've helped me on the familypedia site ... and you'd added a comment to my RAOGK wiki talk page, but after I enabled Message Wall, the contents of my Talk page disappeared!! (Ugh!)

I have two things I need help with:

Categories

I understand and don't understand categories and having a hard time figuring out how to make them work on the RAOGK site. Basically, I think two major categories would be US and Int'l? Then, I think, like on a state like Texas with 10 pages ... it'd be USA as the parent level category, Texas as a child category, and each Texas page as a grandchild?

Ok, if I'm right about that, then how do I code it/create it?

Could you visit the site and leave a comment on my Message Wall?

Top Navigation

I figured out how to add US and Int'l to the menu ... however, cannot for the life of me figure out how to add the potential two layers of submenus. I saw somewhere that you can have 4 top menus, each top menu could have 7 submenus, and the submenus could have a max of 10 items in the drop down. Using USA as an example, I'd like to break USA into: NE, SE, SW, NW, Midwest, etc. and have 10 states listed under those items. (I have state pages for each of the 50 states). Do I need pages for NE, SE, SW, NW, etc? I posted above on http://community.wikia.com/wiki/Admin_Forum:MediaWiki_Navigation

Any chance you could explain the menus to me better and/or provide sample code for maybe NE ... with a couple of NE states in the dropdown menu: Maine, Rhode Island, Conneticut.

Once I see the code, I'm sure I can follow it and implement it on the site.

Many thanks for your help. 