Gooood morning everyone! I hope you all had a great weekend!

I am sure this question has been answered already, but I can't remember the answer & can't find it.

I'm using VSD to create my cheesy little website.

One thing I would LOVE to be able to do right now it to insert some text, maybe an image, maybe both, and then put a thin frame box thingie around it. I remember reading in the forum somewhere...where someone figured out a way to do that. I know there's a frame thing in the Shapes Tool box , but that's not what I'm looking for. I want a very thin box frame to surround text & images - and possibly be able to curve the corners a bit.

If anyone knows how to do this, could you please share the knowledge? Thanks so much!!!!

Hi Amelia,

If you mean a BORDER, then you can do this with the effects tool. You can give it many properties (offset = thickness, opacity, softness), any color, inside and outside of the image or both, whatever. If you want to use this for a text box, then you must mark 'advanced text' first (this converts a text box to an image). For a rounded corner, click the object tool. Use the last property (an arrow with a bow left of it) to make a rounded corder.

If you really mean a frame, like the frame around a painting, the shape is irregular, you have to use a graphics software. Many can do this, an excellent freeware option is Photofiltre. You can download it here: http://photofiltre.free.fr/frames_en.htm

Success, John

Hi John!

Thank you so much for the info! I will go try it now! And thanks for the link as well! Much appreciated!

Have a great day!

There is one problem with this approach, one that is shared with other features, such as mouse-over, and that is that once the text box is converted into an image, the words inside the text box are no longer available to search engines, such as Google. A potential visitor cannot thereafter find a word or phrase in such a converted text box. For example, on the web site I maintain for my band, Uphill, I post the various gigs we have coming up. If I embellish the text box in any way, I cannot search for the name of the venue. E.g. I want to find out the dates we are playing at Hooters.

You are quite right! But there's a solution for that:

Put the original text in the 'Alternate Text' field. Now that the text box is an image, you suddenly have this option at hand. The purpose of the 'Alternate Text' field is just that. To be able to index pictures, search for them, find them using text. Google will index this!

Another solution is, if the text is large, to repeat the text on the same page in a text box while the color of the font is the same as the background of the page. Make the font as small as possible. Google will index it and nobody will notice this neat trick. Of course this works only if the background of the page is a single color, and not a picture..

Success, John