Search the Net: THUNDERSTONE's WebTV Source Viewer SearchCool Links Web Design Multimedia Sound Personal Web Pgs Web Clip Art Almost A Newsletter Free Content Free Offers Free Ezines Boogie Jack's Web Depot Adding Text to Blank Banners This tutorial will show you how to add text to a blank banner using HTML only, no graphics editor involved. It will also work for buttons. Using HTML only, of course, restricts the fonts you can use to those commonly installed on most computers. How It Works The way it works is to create a table around the graphic, and use the banner (or button) as the background. To do this, you'll first have to know the dimensions of the graphic. If you don't have a graphics program that shows the size, you can view the image with a browser and right click on it, then choose the 'Properties' option from the pop up menu. In the next pop up, among the information listed will be the size of the graphic. Here's a sample of a banner using HTML for the text: Boogie Jack This trick, when used with buttons, can make for extremely fast loading web pages since only one graphic is used. Great for sites with several buttons. Here's how it's accomplished... The Code
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