This macro can be used to display the topic a story belongs to: either as text, link or image. As a minimum you need the following:

<% story.topic %>

This will display the name of the topic as link to the main page of the topic.

<% story.topic as="text" %>

will display the name of the topic just as plain text. Now using the attribute as="image" is a bit more complex:

<% story.topic as="image" %>

What will happen now? Assuming you have a story that belongs to the topic "topicmaps", Antville will search in the imagepool of your weblog for an image with the name "topic_topicmaps". The prefix "topic_" is added by default, but you can customize this too:

<% story.topic as="image" imgprefix="icon_" %>

Antville will then search for an image named "icon_topicmaps". If it finds one it will display it as link to the main page of the topic.

There is a problem with this macro. If the topic you are linking to has spaces in it, for example "bodyforlife links" then the macro tries to open /bodyforlife+links instead of /bodyforlife links.

This results in an error that the URL cannot be found.

would be great to add this possibilities to story/comment.creator as well.

so if you use:
<% story.creator as="image" %>

it should search the imagepool for a picture called 'usericon_paradeiser'

of corse it would be better using a global imagepool for usericons, but for now it would help a lot even just using the weblogs one...
see http://easa.antville.org

seems like you have to use the as="link" feature now to have a link to the topic list.