I am using magento version 1.7 , I created some categories and products
but both are not visible at customer end as you can see in below image..

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Take a look @
Creating and Assigning Root Categories to Store
Magento Adding a New Category and Product (youtube)
You also need to clear those ‘yellowish’ warning at top of page and clear cache