Need a little php help

This is strange – my post disappeared and all I see is the Reply text box!

Well let’s try this again …

Last week, another poster inquired if it was possible to use an image rather than a text link for the <--more--> button of the excerpt tag. I don’t bel;ieve it received any feedback. I was intrigued by this and thought I’d experiment, so I made a nice little graphical button in Xaea Webstyle and sent it to my themes images folder.

First try at implementing was the stylesheet, specifically the #contentmiddle a.more-link container, adding url (/images/continue.png). Fail.

Second attempt was scanning the various php files to find a reference to the “read more” tag. There were 3 – index.php, page.php, and functions.php. I decided to try the page.php and added the path to the graphic to the link reference.

That worked partially – the graphic i made appeared, but the regular read more text (which I had already edited the style of) was superimposed over it. Not good. I am now stumped how to get this to work correctly. Since at my age of the game attempting to learn any more of php than I do – which isn’t much – I need a hand from someone much more capable with the language to pull this off. Assuming, of course, that the page.php is indeed where this should go.

Anyone? Beuhler?
Site link: <url>http://brucesplace.net/wordpress</url&gt;

I’ve been spammed!!! Oh the horror:)

Strange all those other posts got through and that didn’t. Oh well! Now to wait and see if someone can come up with a solution:)