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Alt Tags

Discussion in 'Software Apps' started by Tip, Apr 27, 2003.

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  1. Tip Newcomer, in training

    Hi,
    I'm in the process of doing my alt tags. Om my home page I
    have 2 roses on the top of the page for decorative purposes.
    Should the alt for these roses be: alt="Red Rose">
    Thanks,
    Bob
    Tip, Apr 27, 2003
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  2. dani_17 Newcomer, in training

    Well... to be honest. Alt tags are not so usefull. The main functionality, and you won't believe it, is for the search engines to list your page faster.

    Alt tags take to long to appear so that a person navigating the web will stop 2 seconds till a box with "red rose" comes up.
    dani_17, Apr 27, 2003
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  3. StormBringer Newcomer, in training

    Actually the primary purpose of alt tags is to provide a text description for browsers that did not support images. Using it as a way to increase search ranking is something that has fairly recently been put to widespread use. The tags are pretty much useless on images used for decorative purposes.
    StormBringer, Apr 27, 2003
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  4. Tarkus TechSpot Ambassador

    Yes that is the correct format inside the <IMG> tag. The > is actually part of the image tag.

    e.g. <IMG SRC="Logo.jpg" ALT="Company Logo">
    Tarkus, Apr 27, 2003
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  5. Rick TechSpot Staff

    ALT also works in other tags, like links, for non-standard compliant browsers like Internet Explorer. :)
    Rick, Apr 30, 2003
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