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 Is there anyway to move the Category Menu that, by default, shows up on the left to the top along with the main menu?  I know you can use the customized product display provider with a content region, but that requires updating the product list for the region everytime a product is added or removed.

I'm more a developer than a web designer so I haven't found anything obvious that I could change.  I could probably hack it within a few hours but I'd rather not charge my client for too many hours if someone else has come up with a better solution than hacking.

Any ideas?

You can do all this in the site.master file. The general steps would be:

1. Go to the default.aspx and figure out how the CategoryNavigation is added (hint: controls/navigation)
2. Register the control in the site.master
3. Add the control to the "headerRegion" area somewhere underneathe the content menu (this all depends on the look you are going for. you may want to add it next to the content menu? or below it?)
4. Remove the registration and control from the rest of the site pages.