How to insert menu at left column in magento using diffrent theme

Question

I install theme and made my home page of three columns, I have a menu on top of products and category.I want that menu on my left hand side in page .
i found the
3cloumn.phtml
here
D:\wamp\www\magento\app\design\frontend\base\default\template\page
i copy that file in my theme here
D:\wamp\www\magento\app\design\frontend\default\bluescale\template\page\html
but i am doing any changes in my theme on that page is not reflecting at front end . And how i can put that top product related menu on left hand side.

Answer 1

You can add in default/bluescale/layout/page.xml, before this </layout>:

<reference name="left">
        <block type="page/html_topmenu" name="catalog.leftnav" template="page/html/leftmenu.phtml"/>
</reference>

Of course, you have to set the right block data (type, name and template). You can find it from your page.xml.

Clean the cache.

Or, you can install this module: http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/vertical-navigation-with-css-classes.html.