Exporting text from InDesign for web use

I am creating graphics in InDesign CS3 on a Mac running OSX. The graphics consist of a box containing explanatory. I do not have the option of doing the text part in another program - the "boss" wants the layout done in InDesign so I would have to do this twice if I use Illustrator or Photoshop (and I'm not sure how to put a lot of text in a box into Photoshop).
When I exported as a jpg using different resolution settings, put the graphic into Dreamweaver, and then put it onto the web, the text was fuzzy. I can't use the Cross Media Export because this needs to go onto the web as a graphic rather than as text. I can't export to a pdf because the person designing the website is insistent that this be a picture.
I'm not sure all the information needed to answer this is included - please let me know if more information is needed. Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you.

Jeffrey,
Thank you for your answer. I'm not quite sure what you mean by rasterize in Photoshop. I tried what I thought you meant and the screen and print quality both were worse than simply exporting the InDesign document as a jpg (and that quality is not good enough).
Here is what I did:
I exported the InDesign document as a pdf using Press Quality Print and all of the other settings as defaults. When I opened the pdf in Photoshop, anti-aliasing was checked. I used 300 dpi, RGB, and 8 bit - the defaults. I went into Save as for Web, jpg, and used all of the default settings except that I made the document smaller as it was way too large for the web. I did the same thing for gif - opened the pdf in Photoshop, anti-aliased was checked by default, went into Save as for Web, and kept all of the same settings except to decrease the size of the image.
I'm sure there is something I'm just not understanding, and I hope with this explanation you will be able to have an "ah-ha" moment and point me in the right direction.
Thanks,
Marcy

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