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Accepted on both, only reason I have text into a graphic is that my web design package, Netobjects Fusion doesn't seem to allow me to create a text box with rounded edges.

Any ideas? thanks

Yup... make a table 3 cells wide by 3 cells high...

Cut out your images for the 4 corners and simply place those in with img tags and make the height of the top & bottom rows the same as the approprite images. Make the left & right columns the right width for the images..

Then in the long rows & columns along each side, set the images as backgrounds so they repeat and fill up the cell..

Then in the center cell, simply choose a background colour the same as that of your box (or, if it's not a web-friendly colour, use a 1x1 pixel image displaying the colour you desire as a "background", again it tiles to fill up the whole cell), then simply entry your text in the box as you normally would..

It's hard to explain without example code & images, and if I get time later on, I'll chop up your image (if that's cool with you), and recreate it in this kind of table style so that it can be created with regular text

But have a play around, once you figure out how straightforward it really is, you'll be kicking yourself

Yes feel free to chop it up, I would like to learn this.

Like everything else, its just having the time!

Thanks for your help

Hi, I've changed and corrected these things now

Did you have chance to have a go at this?

I would like to see how it's done, thanks

I didn't, sorry..

Actually, I'm on a "backup" PC for the next coupla days (kinda slow and crappy Athlon 1Ghz, 768Meg RAM, 17.4Gig HD), with nothing installed except Windows and a few essentials...

I've got to pick up a new CPU & Mobo this weekend, so once I get all that lot setup, I'll give it a go.

Well I managed it for myself, thanks anyway

How does it look now?

Looks good, I like it!