The examples give you an idea how to arrange your text areas to work with a background image; how to combine text areas together; and they even give you a starting point for your own card, if you'd like one. Expand the Examples menu, and then click on one to load it.

For a new user, the most important thing to see may be these examples. For anybody else they'd just be in the way, though, so they're down below the image menus. It's all about the needs of the many, I guess.

Poor Hypatia. Still a graduate student, her reach has already exceed her grasp. But that's not the only lesson we can learn from her.

When you select her example from the Examples panel you should pay special attention to Text Area #4. This text is right-aligned, and it uses blank spaces at the ends of the lines to control their position. The result is a curving left edge to the text that follows the contours of the background image.

You can do the same thing with left-aligned text by adding blank spaces at the beginning of the lines; and if your text is center-aligned, blank spaces will work both at the beginnning and the end.

This works best if you've entered a carriage return after each line.

These tricks are described on the back of the Hypatia example card. But there's something else there, too: you can see how two text areas have been combined to place a red word in the middle of a brown paragraph. This is a trick that works very well, though it may not look quite right to you because different browsers render text differently. But even if you need to nudge the text in Text Area #2B just a little, you'll see the way it works.

Even Welsh folk heroes can use a business card, for those rapid fire meetings between their skirmishes with the English.

This is an example of how to use several text areas to conform to a particularly difficult image layout: the image offers several small spaces, arranged diagonally, so it's not a simple one to use.

In fact you could get the same result with fewer text areas. But that would involve a lot of work with blank spaces, and it's just simpler to do it this way even though the text uses just three different colors.

The card back uses one of the simpler Ornament backgrounds - and, honestly, simpler is better in most cases - to frame some dialogue that Shakespeare imagined for the last Welsh Prince of Wales.

The remaining examples are much more straightforward. They're meant to give you a starting point, if you need one. I especially like the simplicity of the one I designed for Lord Dunsany (simpler is better, remember?) and the colors in the one for Granny Weatherwax.

But that's just for starters. Now it's your turn.