sidebar image/link issues

Sorry for the not-very-descriptive title, but I couldn’t think of a title to actually describe the issue without making it 20 words long – so I opted for that!

Anyway, I’m trying to customize my sidebar.php file. What I need to do is have a link to a Page that has an image next to the link when you’re on the Page associated with that link. (Criminy, that’s a mouthful!) This isn’t a problem – I can easily do this – the problem comes into the index page. I need to have *all* Page links on the index to have the graphic next to it.

For purposes of visualization, if you are on the “About Us” Page, then the menu should look like so (the * representing the graphic):

*About Us
Resources
Contact

But if you’re on the index page, the menu should look like so:

*About Us
*Resources
*Contact

My problem is that, to get the graphic to display on all the links on the index page, I need to apply the if (is_home()) { to the PHP. Which works great – however, because all of the pages come from the index (in other words, the Page URL is “index.php?page_id=2”) it seems to think that *all* of the pages are still on the home page, and therefore, on *all* Pages, *all* of the links have the graphic next to them.

I hope this is making sense to you. I *so* want to share the link with you so you can actually see it, but I can’t – I’m under an NDA for this site until it’s released. (I could pass along a link privately via email though…so if anyone is generous enough to try that one, email shelly AT candybill DOT com) Hopefully showing you a bitty piece of the code will help you see the back end of things:

<li id="services" <a href="<?php echo get_permalink(10); ?>">
<?php if (is_home || is_page('10')) { ?>
<img src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/images/services_off.gif" width="128" height="16" alt="Services" />
<?php } else { ?>
<img src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/images/services_inside_off.gif" width="128" height="16" alt="Services" />
<?php } ?></a>
</li>

Now, I’ve thought of swapping it around, so that the “inside_off” version is the default (that’s the one with *no* graphic on the side), but when I do that, it seems the only way I can get the side graphic to show is to add *every single Page* to the PHP code in one of the calls up there. That will not do – because if they ever add any more Pages, then it’ll screw up the sidebar. (Make sense?)

Maybe I just need a fresh set of eyes to look at this – I’m starting to think I’m overthinking this and/or have been looking at it for too long. But if someone could give me a suggestion, I’d really appreciate it.

Thanks!