Positioning Pictures and Text

Hi Gian,

Yes, you can do this. What you do, is insert a 'layer' into your web page, and then insert your picture into the layer. If you make the layer absolute positioning (see the properties panel when your layer is selected) you will be able to position your layer at the exact X,Y coordinate of your choosing.

Be aware though, that a web page behaves differently to Word or Powerpoint, because people view pages on their own computer, using their own browser. It's not standardised like Word or Powerpoint. If they resize their window, the text wrapping may be different, or your image may be too far to the right on their screen, and they may need to scroll to the right to view it.

You should design your page so it's flexible, and will resize accordingly when the user resizes their browser window. And usually this means letting the text wrap however it chooses.

Rather than use tables to layout your page, you may be interested in searching for 'CSS layout' in google to discover new ways of laying out your page. Your web pages will load much faster as a result (less code), and you will have a lot more flexibility to change your layout in the future.

CSS layout allows you to create many 'DIVs' with content (separate your content into sections). Then you apply a CSS (style sheet) file to your page which controls the layout of all the elements, as well as colours, borders, margins, padding etc.

Try this to get started:
http://www.glish.com/css/

And also have a look at the interesting experiment at http://www.csszengarden.com where different CSS designers and artists can control the look and feel of the same web page, just by adjusting the CSS file.

Hope this helps.

Good luck, and we look forward to answering any more questions you may have.

Regards, Rich