Converting from Publisher

[AnnaL]

Hello!

I am very new to web-site design, and am learning slowly. I first designed a little community website in Publisher. You can see it at www.canamica.com. While looking at various questions and answers to solve some minor issues with the site (like that it was always to one side) I learned that 'real website developers' write their own HTML code and use CSS style sheets and all that good stuff. I've been learning how to do that in w3 schools, and thought I'd start by converting my site. All was going well, until I tried to put in the cute title I had made using word-art. If I save it as a picture, it comes out all not-smooth, with jaggedy edges on the letters and much darker colours, despite my attempts at setting high resolution, and no matter what type (GIF, JPG, or PNG) I use. I tried to read the web-page HTML produced by word & publisher for the word-art, but it's unreadable!

Any suggestions? The word-art has two colours flowing in a gradient, a nice curve, and a rounded font I liked. Nothing in the CSS or HTML tutorials on w3 suggests how I can recreate that!

This is also my first post, so if it's in the wrong forum, just let me know that, and tell me where to go!
Thanks,
Anna L.

[BonRouge]

I know what you mean, I've had a similar problem myself.
Here's one idea - you could get screen-capture software and take a picture of the Word-Art - I think it should come out pretty good.

This one's good: http://www.techsmith.com/snagit.asp
... as is this one: http://www.screen-capture.net/
... and this one: http://www.zeallsoft.com/super-screen-capture.html

Welcome to the forums by the way. :)