PHP Help for a WordPress Theme: Magazeen

Hi there,

I am using this theme called Magazeen for one of my clients blog.

If you see in the header there is image scroll under heading "Check out the course outline". It shows all the latest posts made in the blog.
I want to exclude a particular category from that scroll.
Whats the code for excluding a category from the scroll.

<?php
					$dock = new WP_Query();
					$dock->query( 'showposts=9' );
					while( $dock->have_posts() ) : $dock->the_post();
				?>

PHP:

Here are the codes of the scroll, which I got from header.php

 

please try this one:

replace the cat=1, with the category id.

 

Thanks it worked...
Infact you gave me a better solution... instead of excluding categories.. I can just include the category I wanted!