As we know, stores in UMD have the option to provide up to 12 (I think) sub categories to help people find the scenes that they would be interested in more quickly. (I have attached a picture to show you the section I mean)

Mine are currently a) rubbish (see picture) and b) haven't been updated properly in literally years because I am mindful that they are rubbish..and I don't want to sort everything until I have decided which categories would actually be useful.

I wondered what the community thinks it would be helpful for a producer to consider when deciding on these.

My thought processes were....I was thinking that as the vast majority of my scenes only feature girls, I might have a subcategory for femdom (aka wamdom), one for guys only, one for co-ed...so people who like those variants don't have to wade through tons of girl only scenes to find what they like.. Maybe I need one for savoury as that seems quite a niche area. One for fun and games, one for scenario based wam? Maybe one for vintage wam, for the archive material I have?

However I am just thinking aloud...and I wondered what the community thinks..not specifically for my store obviously, but as a general principle...what sub categories in a store would be useful to you? What things should producers be considering when deciding on how best to utilise this useful feature Messmaster has given us?

I am hoping this may help producers make it easier to find the wam you like more quickly.

Hi,

like the question and you site.

How about: mess, mud, costumes, ripping, nylons/pantyhose, outdoor, group WAM ?

Kr MsMud

Thanks for starting things off, for the kind words, and for the suggestion. Some really helpful ideas there.

A sexy special category for films featuring the arm of Jeremy Custard!!!

I believe those categories are driven by the "genre" box you can set for each scene, however having just looked at the Saturation Hall Download Store edit controls, I can't actually see how to change them.

In our case these days I usually set those on new scenes to broad clothing categories, PVC, Overalls, Jeans, Formal, etc, though I can see from current storefront is also showing some older ones a few of which now have very few results due to things having been updated over the years.

Ah..so you go with clothing categories as the subdivide. Very very interesting..that's a very different approach to what I have had, and that's real food for thought.

Scenes can be in multiple sub-categories?

I don't think so (though I am 100% open to correction) , and that is one of the things that makes it a challenge.

When the genre field first appeared I wasn't sure how to use it, so some of our earlier scenes are tagged things like "pies" or "wetlook", but eventually I realised as we're one of the premier fully clothed sites where the clothing is at least as important as the WAM, and you can only have one genre category per scene, it made sense to group them by overall clothing style. It's going to be fairly obvious that a scene named "Schoolgirl Pie Fight" is going to be a pie scene, so doesn't really need a "pie" genre setting as well, a simple store search for "pie" or "pies" will find it.

Anything industrial goes under "overalls", ballgowns, bridesmaids, and wedding dresses all go under "formal", the nurses outfits, knee length skirts, military gear, schoolwear, etc, all goes under "uniforms", anything spandex is "shiny", raingear and waterproofs are "rainwear", and so on. I try and keep the overall categories broad - but will have to find out how to update the ones on the store front page.

Over on the Imperatrix Domina store things are rather more scrambled, probably need to take some time to get that sorted out. However none of the categories at all appear there, definitely needs looking into.

Of course now I'm second guessing myself and wondering if in fact I should group things by "pies", "wetlook", "clothes filling", etc, but then how would formal fans, or rainwear fans, conveniently find all the scenes they are interested in? Should there be two genre categories allowed per scene? But then someone would demand that MM provided 27 subcategories per scene, and it would just get silly.

Pies, Lesbian, Feet, Multigirl, Facesitting. I have very simple needs

Thanks.

These are all hugely helpful.

Any more ideas?