Each vertical zone would display links to articles by category (in the attached example, the categories are Resort Life, People & Style).

Could I incorporate a thumbnail in each zone? 

It looks like http://www.hightidemagazine.com/index.php has figured out how to do this but has not incorporated images.  I understand they could have done this by editing the query that generates the list for the upcoming articles module.  Does anyone know how to rework the code to accomplish this?

I thought this was a standard feature option of iJoomla so I mocked up a website proposal with this feature incorporated.  Guess I got ahead of myself.  Any help would be appreciated!

Kara

Thank you for your quick reply Ricardo.

I am sorry for the misunderstanding but High Tide Magazine appears several times in your iJoomla Magazine client list ... it has confused several of us into thinking we can do things with iJoomla Magazine that we can't. 

So, if I modify a module, can it be placed in a Vertical or Horizontal zone?  I know you can put a banner at the top by placing a Load Mos tag in the Issue's description ... anything like that with Articles?

Thanks!

Kara

Sadly, I know what needs to be done to accomplish this ... but not how to do it. 
You are suggesting I create another HTML layout (added thru the HTML Layouts manager) that has the above code.  For each vertical zone I would add the code for the module that would create what I want.  I think modifying the mod_current_articles.php file would be easiest but I don't know my PHP enough to know how to modify it to not just list the articles in an issue but also the articles by category (__magazine_categories).  Each zone would need a different category specified to appear in that zone.  And from there, well ... neeoewm (that's the sound of code going over my head). 

If anyone has the expertise to accomplish this, let me know.  I'd love to add this functionality to my client's website and am willing to pay.  Until then, it's back to the PHP Bible for me (joy!).

Once again, thank you Ricardo!  You are always so helpful.

- Kara