Dreamweaver/Photoshop Problems

I am a brand new webpage "developer" and I am using photoshop and studio mx.

I started by making a little box that with a pixel boarder that will be on the mainpage and will be where I type in the news. It has a place at the top of it that I will type in the site name.

So I went into dreamweaver and made a table with the same width and height as the image and I made the news.jpg the background image.

Here comes the problem. When I go into the table to start typing the information, it only lets me start typing at around halfway down the image... when I really want to start at the top of the image.

Is there anyway to fix this?

Click in the table cell like you are about to type your content, then in the properties menu (should be at the bottom of your screen) set the "VAlign" attribute from "Default" to "Top" and it will fix it. That sets the vertical alignment of the stuff you put in that cell.

Thank you so much!

Is there anyway to let me use the space key?? When I try to type in the table it makes me start typing on the far left (when i have it at default/left align). I try to use the space bar but It won't let me space, so some of the typing is kinda in the pixel boarder.

try playing with your cellpadding and cellspacing attributes in the table, should fix that problem.

chris

[PHP] [/PHP] <--- that is a space stroke in HTML.

Oh I thought that was short for, "Nice Boobs Sir Paavo"

In HTML you can only have one space, that is why it doesn't work. Unless you do like paavo said and use that special space character.

or you could set some cellpadding in your table like fig said. or you could use CSS to put some padding around the text in your box.

.gif shims can work as well. If you know the precise spot for the text you can create a small file size gif to move the text around.

I would stay away from using GIFs. They are old hacks that we had to use back in the day, but in 99.9% of the cases, you can use CSS now instead. But for your particular problem, cellpadding is the easiest way to go.

Shame on you Marble for trying to get him into bad habits!

Thanks