You're absolutely right about the grouping for djet. The other symbols each represent one word and can be grouped in whatever configuration makes them look good as long as you put them in the right order. Neb makes an excellent point when he says there are different ways of doing this, including using different signs for things like Re's name. But I think we can do it nicely using the symbols you have. (And thanks, Asenath, for the kind words and excellent quotation. You're right, too, about the direction of reading.) Okay, Ria, here we go. If you look at your original graphic you will notice that the snake is looking to the right. This means you begin reading at the right. When you start writing them vertically, you always begin at the top, so your name would be the first thing at the top of the text. The conical loaf (that pyramid looking thing) is the sign for Di, which means 'given'. Next to that is a sign you know, the ankh, meaning 'life'. Now, as individual words these could be stacked but you have three long hieroglyphs in a row here (these two and one coming up soon). So in order to make this aesthetically more pleasing, I think an AEgyptian scribe would put some of them together. They liked to keep things in rectangular groups. My suggstion would be to put di ankh together. If you plan to have the snake looking to the right, you should order them just as they appear in your original graphic. They would go right below your name. Next we come to the symbol for Re, the sun, and beside that the milk jug in a net, which reads mi. Again to obtain a better balance I would put these two words together, beneath di ankh. The remaining symbols make up the word djet, which means 'eternally' or 'forever'. They would go together, grouped as you have them in your graphic, at the bottom of the vertical list. Of course, if you want to read from left to right, you could simply mirror the whole thing, but FYI, the AEgyptian scribes generally wrote right to left unless they had a particular reason to do otherwise — like around a door frame. I don't know if you've gone through them or not, but I have a first set of hieroglyph lessons set up in the Royal Kap thread under Medu Netjer 101. They might help a little. (Oh, and welcome to the group! *s*)