After some side project detractions, I'm back at the grindstone. I ordered Pro Drupal Development and found it to be a big help in understanding how everything fits together. I've managed to get my XHTML-CSS template into a custom Drupal theme and an fairly happy with it now. The only hard part has been finding out which function overrides I need to add to my template.php in order to get the desired HTML output formatted for my design. Now that my template is pretty much finished, I need to start tweaking the Ubercart output.

I have started to add some products to play around with. I have a question on what the best practice is for setting up my secondary navigation links for the products and creating all of the catalog vocabulary terms. If you look at my template designed I linked to above, you can see that I want a secondary navigation menu on the left that lists all of my catalog categories. Is there any way that I can create my navigation menu links when I create the catalog vocabulary terms?

After looking around for a while, it appears that I will have to create all of my catalog categories and then create all of my menu items which should be identical. I think it would be a nice feature if you could combine the menu creation form input boxes and the catalog category creation form input boxes on one page that will create both at the same time.

The other solution I can see to this would be to create a custom block that will query the database for all of the catalog categories and output a list of links.

Which do you think would be the better way to create the secondary navigation links? I'm interested in whatever way will be the most automated. Once I add a product, I want it to automatically show up in the navigation box.