Did a search for this but I did not get what I'm looking for, sorry if this was asked before.

I want to add horizontal rule to the first page to separate the categories and products so they have the appearance to be in separate sections, any way to do this directly or do I have use the html option and have it in there? if so what is the code to do so. thanks!

This is the page where you have the products with the "show on shop home page" option on.

I don't believe you can easily do what you want because of how the program is hardcoded to display the pages. Someone may have a php file hack for you.

Horizontal rule: http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_hr.asp

I have just done this myself on this page...
http://www.venicedigital.com/shopitaly/Pacchetti_siti_web.php

I used

Not sure if this is still standards' compliant, but it worked anyway!

What I have done for a client in the past was create a categories html page and have that linked to the cart. This way I have complete control over the design.

thank you for the suggestions, I will give them a try.

Sorry Demco... I hadn't noticed that you wanted it in the categories page. So Eric's suggestion sounds good and then you can still use the horizontal rule code I added.