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jennyd
04-28-2003, 12:23 AM
How do you make a text box in a table made up of all Images without changing image placement?
http://www.sugardoodle.com/ here is the address.
I want to make the pics with type on the kittens page text they are an image right now.
Thanks Jenny

zoobie
04-28-2003, 03:53 AM
Huh? You want to put a text box on the page? Huh?

jennyd
04-28-2003, 07:18 AM
poeple tell me if it is not text(i mean not made on a photoshop image) search engines dont find it as well. does that make sense? this is my first site and im not sure if its needed anyway. can it be done?

cg9com
04-28-2003, 07:21 AM
This has some truth to it yes.
I guess if you managed the images in a way that the text was removed and a blank square space were in the particular section, you could fit a text 'area' in there.
(do you actually mean <textarea>?)
There are also ways to float elements on top of each other.

ronaldb66
04-28-2003, 12:05 PM
It's not very good practice to use images for text: images take up much more room (file size wise) then plain text, search engines can't do much with them and for browsers that aren't capable of displaying images (like readers for the visually impaired) they're basically useless.
The only reason for it might be the pressing need to use a certain font which isn't likely to be available on users' computers; good examples on your site are the text headers, the page title and the site header.

I'm guessing you've used some sort of visual site builder package, but if you really want to get into serious site building I recommend picking up some basic knowledge of HTML, CSS, etc.
My favorite tutorial site is W3Schools (http://www.w3schools.com/), but there are many more.

tamienne
04-29-2003, 04:22 PM
This is what I would do...
your row of <IMG SRC="twhite.jpg" HEIGHT="126" WIDTH="425" BORDER="0"><IMG SRC="rflower.jpg" HEIGHT="126" WIDTH="273" BORDER="0">
from your twhite.jpg cut out the "New Kittens" title so you can keep that with that font. Add alt text to that image ALT="New Kittens"

Change to another table
<TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0">
<TR>
<TD WIDTH="426" HEIGHT="126">
<TABLE WIDTH="100%" HEIGHT="100%"><TR><TD COLSPAN="2"><IMG SRC="newkittentitle.gif" ALT="New Kittens"></TD></TR>
<TR><TD WIDTH="5">&nbsp;</TD><TD CLASS="text"> insert your text here</TD></TR></TABLE>
</TD>
<TD WIDTH="273" HEIGHT="126"><IMG SRC="rflower.jpg" HEIGHT="126" WIDTH="273" BORDER="0"></TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>

you'll want to define the style for "text" ie font-family:Arial;font-size..etc.