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Slicing Problem/Question

Ok I've been slicing my template and everything has been running smoothly until i've reached my content box slicing. Here's what's goin on:

My Content Boxes have:
1. a background

I want my content boxes to have:
1. the same background
2. text on top of the background, that I can edit in say notepad

Here's the problem-
1. the content boxes are just white, with my html on top, and no background for them.

How do I do this...

Here's what I have tried:
1. Slicing the box and naming it as an image, then re slicing it as an html box. But it only shows the HTML, not the background.

Can someone please help me? I'd really appreciate it!

P.S. i'm using image ready 7

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An example of your template would help.

http://www.jdees.org/upload/userfiles/impulse/xtournaments.gif

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Normally IR should save your sliced layout as a table with images in it. The only thing you should need to change, would to put the image in a given cell into the cell's background, and replace the image with your text. What do you mean your cells are white? Did you put the image as the cell's background?

yea that's a little confusing for me. i'm more of a designer, not so much a coder. i don't know a whole lot of HTML. can u give me the code for that?
here's the code for the box underneath the links box.

Quote:

<TD COLSPAN=4 ROWSPAN=2>
<IMG SRC="images/links_content.gif" WIDTH=184 HEIGHT=240 ALT=""></TD>

see if you can do something to that. then i'll try to follow suit with the rest of the boxes. thanks a lot!

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as nano said, the thing you need to do in order to put text in is to change images to background images.

for example, change

Code:

<td><img src="blah.gif"></td>

to

Code:

<td background="blah.gif" valign="top">Text here</td>

However, tables shouldn't be used for designing your layout. See http://www.hotdesign.com/seybold for the reasons why. If you want to know how to do it right (or at least, better than you are now), you should hand code the html/css yourself in a text editor instead of using autogenerated tables.

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