Is it possible to put text over images?

I have about 5 images for my website which need to have a couple of words printed on them. Occasionally these words change and rather than having to go to Photoshop and change it each time is there any way I can do it so that I just have a the raw image and can write on top of it? I'm currently using Dreamweaver although I am competent enough to code in HTML and CSS so if someone could teach me either way it'd be much appreciated.

Roosta

 

Try putting the image as the background of a div box and putting text in the box.

Hope it helps
Wierdo

 

Yep that is the way to go.

#box{
background: url('images/box_background.png') no-repeat;
}

Code (markup):

<div id="box">
Text overlay
</div>

HTML:

 

actually that is the only way to go.. u cannot put it as an image and then write some texts

 

Hi
You also can create a table with a background an write the text in the table.

Superslow

 

Yes you can, using negative margins.

<img src="path/image.jpg" alt="image" />
<p>Overlaying text</p>

Code (markup):

p {
margin-top:-20px
}

Code (markup):

 

For once people agree with me! I feel much better now.

 

But, it would be cooler to write a simple PHP function to place the words over the images

 

i agree with crath, i learnt this yesterday itself. its fun and you feel great after doing so. atleast me

 

Create div tag is work. Table is old style web design and not do much with SEO

 

What you are talking is a common occassion when making navigation menus .
That is using images as background and the text is "floating" over the background .

These code should work fine.
You can use it again and again in your following projects. Try it .

 

how do you do that ?

 

http://us3.php.net/manual/en/book.image.php

 

Could also use

p {
position:relative;
top:-20px;
}

Code (markup):

Plenty of ways to go about it, using PHP is overkill in this situation IMO

 

I said "It would be cooler", not it would be more efficient

it was a joke, and I agree it would be extremely overkill.