I'm not a big fan of images for menus (because of accessibility concerns), but if it's a requirement for your project then this module will do nicely. It generates images for your menu text + rollover images, both can be based on a background image and there are the necessary parameters for font color, padding etc.

Only caveat is that it doesn't work properly on PHP 4 (tested with PHP 4.4 and 4.8), it inserts the images after the menu text instead of replacing the text with images. But then PHP 4 is outdated anyway.

New items will show eventually, there is just a bug with the server offset time in my query that I seem unable to correct, no matter what I do I end up with the wrong time offset. So new Items will show, but a few hours after the publishing date set in the parameters. I hope I'll be able to fix this some time.

-- eike