so ive noticed that 43 people have looked at my posting.. and NO ONE has any help or advice for me?? i'm pretty disappointed.. I was hoping to be able to get some help in these forums..

if you have any advice.. i would really appreciate if you can reply....

:(

1. Look in your navigation css file and find this part:

/*THIS PART IS FOR THE NAVIGATION LINKS*/
.nav1 a:link, .nav1 a:visited, .nav2 a:link, .nav2 a:visited, .nav3 a:link, .nav3 a:visited, .nav4 a:link, .nav4 a:visited, .nav5 a:link, .nav5 a:visited{
	color: #4E4E4E;
	width: 80px;
	height: 20px;
	line-height: 20px;
	background: url(images/01_linkbg2.gif) top repeat-y;
	padding: 0;

It points to the images folder for the background image file. But it looks like you renamed the images folder to img. Change the name back or change your css file to point to img instead of images. That will bring back those tabs.

2. You can add anything you want into the sidebar by inserting the code into that section of the _main.php file. Or, to make it even easier, add your images and links into the Long Description field in the blog settings and they'll show up at the top of the right sidebar.

Bonus: You removed the title from the head of your page. That's not a good idea. The title is important for search engines, bookmarks and other things. Check the custom skin for the code you need to put back in.

thanks SOO much for your response.. I got a few of the image problems fixed, and now I have a few more questions...

1) I tried placing my extra categories like you suggested in my long description, but it did not like the <img> or the [img] tags.. what am I doing wrong? do I need to add the whole path?

2) I now want those new tabs on top to go to specific pages.. how do I create new pages within my blog??

thanks again... :)

1. Yes, use the full path to the image, and make sure you use a self-closing xhtml image tag, like this

<img src="http://yoursite.com/images/whatever.jpg" alt="Despription of the image" />

Not the space and the slash at the end of the code.

2. Just create a blog post and then link to the permalink for that blog.

awesome, thanks for that info.. i got most of it working now.. theo nly problem i have now is that when i click on the other section, the tab is not getting highlighted as being in that new location..

for example, click on nuggets.. it goes to a new page, but the top tab stil has katnips highlighted.

I also wanted to know how to make breaks in the code, <br> does not seem to work.

thanks for all your help so far
;)

It's not set up to work that way. If you want it to do that you're going to have to make some changes in your skin.

Here's what you have now:

<li class="nav1"><a href="http://katnipkafe.com/blog/">KATNIPS</a></li>
<li class="nav2"><a href="http://katnipkafe.com/blog/index.php?cat=17">NUGGETS</a></li>
<li class="nav3"><a href="http://katnipkafe.com/blog/index.php?cat=18">TREATS</a></li>

You'll have to do some kind of if statement to check and see if you're on the page in question. Then you'll need to make a separate class for each link when it's the active link (e.g., you'll have .nav2 and .nav2-active in your stylesheet). Your php would check like this:

<li class="nav2<?php if ($cat==17) echo '-active'; ?>"><a href="http://katnipkafe.com/blog/index.php?cat=17">NUGGETS</a></li>

An easier to maintain solution would be to use different blogs and a bloglist, which already has the code needed to tell you when a tab is active.