dezhen

Thanks a lot – will give it a try tomorrow… its 1.10am here in Sydney ??

Yeah thanks, i found it after i had posted this. I am basically looking for something that can display (recent) posts from different categories at different places on the page (to create a kind-of Portal effect).

I am also thinking of making the site-wide navigation based on the categories settings, but am not sure how easy it is to do that exactly, as i am just beginning PHP and all (though am up to speed on XHTML and CSS).

Thanks for your advice and help on the definition.

try looking at this A List Apart tutorial on how to make different types of lists with HTML and CSS. As far as i can tell, once you set up the categories to use a list, then you can style the output in CSS.