Ok, I just got this idea for my site.

1. I want is to have an image placed absolute, which i have already. But I want to have a text area overlapping it and transparent so you can see the picture in the background over it and it has the scroll bar and everything

2. There are these boxes that are placed to the side of the picture and in the boxes it's headed with something like (Writings, Information..etc.) It's kind of hard to explain....here go to this site and you'll understand more
http://moongoddezz.com/ld/

I don't want it exactly like that but I just want to know how to do it. Would I need frames/iframes?

any help would be appreciated! thanks

Naw You don't need to use frames on this one.


<table border="0" width="250" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" background="url of the picture behind words" height="100">
<tr><td width="5" height="80" colspan="3"></td></tr>
<td width="5" height="10"></td>
<td width="0" height="0"><ilayer>
<div style="width: 210; height: 150; overflow: auto">
Blah Blah Blah...this is where the stuffies go
</table>

This is kind of an example of what ur talking about. You can adjust how big the pic will be (if it goes beyond the pic, the pictures start going over again...blah, well u know what i mean) and how big the table will be

I sort of wanted the text to be in a box so that it will have a scroll bar. Is there any way to do that?

I think an inline frame is what you might be looking for:

http://www.lissaexplains.com/frames.shtml#inline

Thanks!