I've gotten the code to work properly with the archives section now as well... I edited the _archives.php file in the /skins/ folder.... NOT in your particular skin's folder (i.e. /skins/_archives.php AND NOT /skins/stockholm/_archives.php)

I've commented the changes I added...

			case 'monthly':
// --------------------------------- MONTHLY ARCHIVES ---------------------------------------
echo '<a href="';
archive_link( $arc_year, $arc_month );

// NEXT LINE CONTAINS MY EDITS ---------
echo '" title="'.$month[zeroise($arc_month,2)],' ' ,$arc_year.'">';
// END EDITS ------------

echo T_($month[zeroise($arc_month,2)]),' ',$arc_year;
echo '</a> <span class="dimmed">('.$arc_count.')</span>';
				break;

Now, back to trying to get the categories to show title info...

jj.

I got it to work...!

I edited the /blog/skins/_categories.php file, not the one in the folder of your skin of choice... Below is the section I edited (Sorry, I'm not using an editor that gives me line numbers at the moment, but it's at around line 75 or so....

		echo '<a href="'.url_add_param( get_bloginfo('blogurl'), 'cat='.$cat_ID ). '" 

// START EDITS ------------
title="'.$cat['cat_name'].'">'.format_to_output($cat['cat_name'], 
// END EDITS --------------

'htmlbody').'</a> <span class="dimmed">('.$cat['cat_postcount'].')</span>';
		if( in_array( $cat_ID, $cat_array ) )
		{	// This category is in the current selection
			echo "*";
		}
		if( $cat_line_checkbox )
		{
			echo '</label>';
		}

And also the section approx 40 lines beneath it, to cover the "ALL" link:

	// Start global list:
	echo $cat_main_start;
	if( $blog > 1 )
	{	// We want to display cats for one blog
		echo "\n",$cat_group_start,"\n";

		if( !empty( $cat_all ) )
		{	// We want to display a link to all cats:
			echo $cat_line_start,"\n";

// START EDITS ----------
			echo '<a href="',get_bloginfo('blogurl'),'" title="View all Categories">',$cat_all,'</a>';
// END EDITS ----------

			echo $cat_line_end,"\n";
		}

Just have a few odds and ends left now with some random link types that aren't hooked up yet...

jj.

Has anyone else checked out the link in my first post to see what these mouseovers look like? I think they're pretty alright looking, but maybe nobody else does...
Anyway, I feel like I learned a little about php tonight by setting this up, and maybe someone else will like those link styles enough to want to install them and benefit from my learning experience. :)

jj.

Silly question - how do you change the background color of the mouseover popups?

When making changes to _categories.php, _archives.php etc, it's generally a bad idea to edit your files directly in /skins, since these files usually need to be upgraded when you upgrade b2evo. It's best to copy the entire contents of these files into skins/yourskinname/ and edit the files from that directory. That way your mods are more likely to survive the upgrade procedure.

To edit the colours, just edit the css you added for the mouseovers.

hmm... where were you when I was just starting? :)
Well, the changes I made were not too extensive, so I can definitely change them back...

Something I'm not entirely clear on... If the main /blog/skins/ folder has a copy of the _archives.php and _categories.php files, and the individual skin folder has one also, does the copy in the individual skin folder override the one in /blog/skins/ ? In other words, is it okay to have both copies active?

jj.

Look at the files as they stand at the moment in your individual skin's directory. All it does is call the file in the main skins directory. When you have your own version in there, there is no call to that file, so it isn't read.

I'm using the nicetitles javascript and am looking for a way when I hover over an image link for it not to trigger since I am using stk's CSS caption Zoom and the nicetitles interferes/obscures my captions.

This is completely off topic. You should have made a new topic. Anyway, this isn't possible. You could fiddle with the css, but I still don't think it will work. You'll have to choose one or the other.