Text Stored as Graphics image

I would like to create a one page website with iWeb. The page itself would contain one image of my logo, my name and an email address, and two short paragraphs of text.
The Apples for Dummies (2008) recommends storing text as a graphics image to prevent nefarious searching of the text. For example, the author advises storing an email address as a graphics image and then hyperlinking it. The authors are short details how to accomplish this. My empirical attempts to store text as a graphics file have failed. Any suggestions would be helpful. I would prefer to use whatever software that came with my Macbook. I am keeping things simple and using only Apple software.
Thank you, macdvm

macdvm:
You can change any number of shape features by using theInspector/Graphics pane.
Also you can change a text box to a graphic by adding a drop shadow to the text and setting the opacity of the shadow to zero.
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