How do I add text over a picture or image in Dreamweaver CS5

[milesgold9]

I use both Photoshop and Dreamweaver for simple web pages.  The reason I do not want to use Photoshop for my text is that the text does not come out real crisp and clean in Photoshop and it does come out crisp and clean in Dreamweaver.  But I need to have more control on where exactly I put my text in Dreamweaver which is usually in an image.  I have watch some of the videos on you tube, but they dont work for me.  Can someone be really specific and help me with that?  Thank you.

[Nancy OShea]

Use Photoshop for optimizing and slicing images only.

Build your site layout with Dreamweaver.

This 3 part tutorial describes the method.

Taking a Fireworks (or Photoshop) comp to a CSS Layout in DW

Part 1 - Initial Design

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/dw_fw_css_pt1.html

Part 2 - Markup preparation

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/dw_fw_css_pt2.html

Part 3 - Layout and CSS

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/dw_fw_css_pt3.html

Nancy O.

[Guest]

If you want to type text over an image in dreamweaver, you need to have the image as the background image within your DIV tag, and not to insert the image into the DIV tag.

Using css, use the background-image option and select your image. Then in your html you can type into this DIV without effecting the image fixed inside it.

[bregent]

>check out this simple tutorial. it is the easiest way to do this

Simple and easy, but not reliable. Don't rely on absolute positioning for this.