go to your forum.

RIght click (or ctrl click for for mac)
"view source code"
do a find for "post reply"
when you find it, see what div its in ex:

<p class="postlink conr"><a href="post.php?tid=4">Post reply</a></p>

Then go to forum/templates/main.tpl or one of the others and search/find for "p.postlink conr"
When you find it, apply a

background: url (url of background image) #color here;

You will probably want to make your image as wide as the element.

Or you could just replace "post reply" with an img tag?

Make sense?

Matthew

Great Idea Paul.
Der! or Duh!  You're preference.  I think I should have figured that one out.

Thanks.

Matthew

BUMP!?

I am wanting to add some images to the navigation menu.

I just visited apple's discussion forums:
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=753

ahh.  Easy on the eyes, and really easy to navigate.  I like the icons next to the navigation bits.
How would I add that?

Would I do it in function.php where the menu is?
I know next to no php, so I'll need an example if possible.

Thanks,

Matthew

ps.  Check out where I want to use it [url:http://artiswork.org/forum/]here[/url]