Are you sure Viv? It's not how I remember VSD when I trialled it, and if you save one of the text images, you can clearly see it's been pasted on a piece of the background. I think this is what Inger & I are seeing, and commenting on.

It's not evident on the Home Page - so that appears to be ok. Funny now though, what looked different on my netbook (pages residential interior etc), appears to be pasted again.

Greg, I think your best option is to head over to your Web Image Studio, choose 1 default header text for all your Pages, and just make them all there in PNG transparent, then import them as an image.

That way they'll be clean, consistent on your site, and easy to implement new pages with the same title as you can save a project in Web Image Studio - then just change the text to suit & save as PNG. It takes a few seconds this way.

I'm sure you'll get better results with that program than using the advanced text options - but as always, I stand to be corrected as I'm not using VSD.

When you are doing an advanced text procedure in the VSD and come to the point where you select the background color for the text box being created at the time it would be helpful if transparent was one of the background color selections I understand that transparent is not a color but it is a widely used background choice none the less

Seems that the way it is working by taking a piece of the pg background image as the background is its way of translating the text box image as transparent in that if it is the same as the existing background it is effectively transparent. If you were to go and change the background image on the pg then the text box would stand out like a sore thumb

I don't think you need the added background in the text box Greg, and probably what's causing that. It's not effectively transparent, as there is a background image behind the text. If you change your background on the page, with a transparent text image, you'll see nothing changed, as it is just the text as the image.

Would you like me to do one in my Web Image Studio (PNG transparent) & upload it here for you so you can add it to your page to see if you like the effect?

Greg, if you have a png image, and you copy/paste it in VSD, it gets turned into a jpeg with the formerly transparent areas filled in with whatever background the image was on.
If you use a png file, insert your png page by page rather than copying it.

As for the advanced text, how in the world are you creating a background color for the text box???

I don't see this as an option anywhere. When I type text, it's within a transparent bounding box (whether reg or advanced text). Copying/pasting has no effect either.

Hope this makes sense!

Greg you have it correct as it is dont worry about the header its a VSD thing

OK I went on my VSD to pg 30 of which I have tentatively made up but not used yet It has the page heading and link bar as all of the pgs have I entered the old cloud background image as I was using before and yes it did pick up that new or old background image into the text box so it auto changes with the changing of the pg background image As I said before it emulates transparency by adopting the existing background into the background of the text box that's the way it works. If you look at the image files of which it makes up a new one for each pg even though they are all the same they have the background image in them they are not transparent background images they appear to be transparent background because they are the same as the background of the pg
I tried for a couple of hours to produce the text image using the advanced text function with a truly transparent background and eventually gave up on that did not seem to be possible I can live with the way it is working
I followed the instructions to get the transparent background text box and got the ones you see I have not yet tried to do the website font application or rather yes I did but could not figure out from the pdf file instructions what exactly and how exactly to upload it to get it to work could not figure out how to get the html code3 into the pg and could not tell exactly shich files to upload where after multiple readings of the instructions so I guess it will be trial and error with that one Will just keep trying different possibilities until it works

Yes normal pg text is a layer and the advanced pg text is an image and VSD does not make up the advanced pg text box with transparent backgrounds It just does not do that it makes them up with a copy of the existing pgs background image or a selected background image color

Greg, I don't know why you want to waste hours trying to work with images in VSD, when you have an excellent image program there at your fingertips - Web Image Studio. It does really nice clean transparent text images.

It's up to you of course, but pages after the Home Page do show up quite clearly that they appear to be pasted on top of your background, and I think you could make it look a lot better in next to no time with this program.

But I'll step out now, as I'm at a loss as to why VSD pastes the advanced text over like that, and it's considered normal. Just doesn't seem logical.

Are we all missing the point of VSD here

Its aimed at people (like me) with no html, or programming skills or experience

yes it apparently does some things an odd maybe illogical way, BUT it does it in a way that is simple, and works

For those out there who know better, and use html properly, please try not to over complicate things for us novices.

Moan over back to website No. 8