You'll see that the Color Names content item lists first, but I want it to list last on the category page. I have it set to last in every possible place, yet it doesn;t matter. Nothing changes. (it is last on the menu, last in ordering on category page).
Edit the order of your Front Page items. Go to the Front Page Manager and check the order of the items selected to be in the front page.
To order your categories edit your menu (the button that goes to the table category list) and being there, in the right column you can give the order to it, alphabetical, descendant, ordering (as it apperas on the backend), etc.
The front page is working fine, but I cannot get the category page to display content in the order I want. I changed the ordering as you suggest above, but it didn't change anything. Any ideas about what else to try? thanks, Jason