ok, i swear, one day i'll stop asking questions about this. (^^;)

i've got it set up, and it's almost working perfect. turns out my sister wanted that grid view for her top page too, so that was actually easier than i had imagined, but now we're getting odd next/previous button placement. the first ...

ah! lovely!
$view == 'categories' for the win~

thank you very much, sir.
~meredeth.

ok, well, i think i've got a handle on how to use the counter function, but i apparently do not have a handle on where to use it. should i be creating a seperate page? (called what? categories.tpl maybe? and how would i call it?) or should i be putting this in the entries.tpl? i tried that second ...

ah! i think that counter function is just what i was looking for! (^_^) maybe one day i'll have the skill set for a whole plugin. (^^;)

thanks muchly,
~meredeth.

i'm helping my sister set up a site, (http://www.jewelry-ninja.com) and all of her posts are actually images and descriptions of items for sale. what we're hoping to do is get a custom category template written that would display her items in a grid, something like this ...

ok, this is the post where i admit that i'm a dummy and should be locked away for ever. (^^;)

let this be a lesson to all of you, when you reinstall your serendipity, please double check that you have the same database prefix as you did before, otherwise, half of your entries will be missing ...

i recently had some corrupted files on my installation of 1.4.1 (which had been upgraded from 1.4) which were causing some serious errors (which, in the end, may have been my hosts fault, not serendipity's, but that's a whole other story~) and so i deleted and reinstalled using the same database ...