i purchased Macromedia Studio 2004MX and never regretted one minute

Fireworks is hands down the most efficient tool for web graphics integration.

Tonight, I'm going to work in taking your images and trying in Fireworks to do what you are wanting, then posting the steps on what I've done there tonight or tomorrow.  I'll also try to find any good how-tos for Fireworks as Macromedia site itself has some really good articles there.

Hey, I just was browsing the forum and came across your image problem. Has it been resolved yet? I see it's been a week.
I got my start five years ago using Photoshop to design, ImageReady to slice, and Dreamweaver to build the site. Now that css is all the rage, most designers are setting background images using a .css file instead of tables. You may want to look into it. It's confusing at first, and I admit, my own sites do not rely heavily on css for image placement. And, shame on me, I still rely on tables for layout because I cannot guarantee that every user of mine will have an up-to-date browser that can read complicated css layouts!

Back to your problem. Usually, designers choose a layout color that can be reproduced using hex colors so that table cells that need text can be left empty of images and the background color can be set to match the rest of the layout. Did you need a patterned background, and is that why you need to put text over an image?

OK I just tried it and there was no white halo surrounding my text. Here's what I did: highlight the <td> tag, in the field marked "Bg" put the path to your image. It will repeat. Open the cell to the width and height you need it. Type your text. Are you using css here? You can assign the text to a class and you shouldn't have a problem. Remember that until you actually can post your page live, you can't trust what you see in Dreamweaver's preview window.

Let me know if you need anything else.

thepixellator, horton Thanks for your concern but so far Danielle has been helping me out on this. I am going to use those pages for a different part of the website. I have set up a contact page made in Dreamweaver MX 4 but it's giving me a error message. I tracked the message down to changing register global variable to on.

Does anyone know how to do this?

Oh thanks, but leighsww took care of the issue I was having getting it to work.

I knew that whatever her response was, I would not understand it myself. And I am sorry that it did not solve the issue. Possibly when they gets her regular site back up you can - knowing it was made with PS - learn more by digging in to it a bit.

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