Ranking via Search Engines...

Hi,
My newly posted site: Music4yourEvent.com has .jpeg (.png) files of the text. (This is because I wanted a particular font and typographical layout.)
So, I conclude that search engines & web crawlers will not have any way of referencing much of the content of my site.
Is it possible therefore to i.e. place a copy of the actual html text in a layer beneath the .jpeg images in order to achieve recognition by search engines? Any other ideas?
I hope this makes sense,
Thanks!
iMac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.7) Logic Pro 7, MOTU 828, Kurzweil... iLife '06

Try applying the alt tag to a specific image in the HTML source. For example:
img src="http://images.apple.com/t/2007/us/en/i/1.gif" alt="Apple"
The HTML source can be viewed and changed in any text editor. For some editors, you may need to access the file as text instead of HTML to see the source.
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*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Search+bar
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Is there a way to use different search engines on the main bar and on the small one without having to switch anything on the small one?

I want to use google when I type to search in the main bar and wikipedia on the small search bar on the right. However, they both seem to use the same search engine, depending on which one I've chosen on the small search bar. I want them to use different ones without having to click and change engines. How can I do that?

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