Updating a old character sheet.

[neonbasschild]

Ok so I am a pretty good coder and graphics designer. I am on my last leg of updating fuleng's L5R module and now I want to do is update how the character sheet looks. The basic rules mechanics hasn't changed for the game at all so all I really need to do is update the images in the ruleset and then move around the items in the XML. The problem is I cannot and have never been able to get my head around placing X,Y coordinates inside a 2d text space. Do you guys know a easy way of finding out coordinates for doing this?

I have the entire adobe creative package so if there is some magic tool I can use in there it would be great. I know it use to be really popular to place floating dev is dreamweaver and fireworks so maybe I could do something with that.

Any ideas?

[damned]

typically most of the positioning is done by declaring the top left hand corner and then the length and height of the element.
other elements require you to position them a certain length and height away from an anchor
others are just relative positioning - left right above etc