Images instead of Categories?

[milesfides]

Question: In the "Categories" Box, how can I replace the categories (e.g., "hardware" "software") with images?

 

Reason: I hate the jagged text in the box, and want to replace them with photoshpped 'smooth' text gifs.

 

Assumption: I recognize that the categories box is a modular infobox; it reflects titles of categories we create in admin.

 

 

However, I can't help but feel there should be a way to replace the output text with a corresponding image.

[Wendy James]

I believe when you are making your categories you can just enter the html code for the image, instead of typing in the name.

 

So instead of making a category "Toys"

you would have

<img src="urltopic/imagename.gif">

 

I think I did that on one site but can't remember for sure now. lol Give it a shot, can't hurt anything.

[milesfides]

I did see this contribution:

 

http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contri...tegories/page,2

 

which provides images in the category box.

 

however, i'm also trying to incorporate this into a header menu with the categories (using category tabs contribution).

 

Basically, I'm trying to combine the tabs ver 1.3 contribution (categories in header) + category_box_images contribution (images to replace text in categories),

 

I'm trying for the categories in the header, but I dislike the text quality output, and want to replace them with images.