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Polychrome · Post by **Polychrome** » Sun Feb 20, 2005 11:43 pm

Works for me (XP + IE), including links to photo and graphics pages.

MickGael · Post by **MickGael** » Sun Feb 20, 2005 11:47 pm

Hey Mully,
An ALT tag is a specific piece of code attached to an image to provide an ALTernative for people who can't see them.

Its looks like this:

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<img alt="Music" "title="This link takes you to the music page, which offers downloads and other fun stuff" src="/images/abc.jpg" width="115" height="100" border="1" />

Hope this helps...

multree · Post by **multree** » Sun Feb 20, 2005 11:58 pm

oh ha.... that looks complicated.... I'm not using any fancy navigation anyway.... just some hyperlinks using frontpage

fake · Post by **fake** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 12:06 am

Seems fine here.

I like the colours.

Ok with mozilla and displays fine in diferent sceen settings and bit rates.

fake

multree · Post by **multree** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 12:48 am

fake wrote:

Seems fine here. I like the colours.

Ok with mozilla and displays fine in diferent sceen settings and bit rates.

fake

great thanks fakey

fake · Post by **fake** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 12:51 am

BTW, do you use "web safe colours"?

fake

multree · Post by **multree** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 12:54 am

fake wrote:

BTW, do you use "web safe colours"?

fake

err.. no

kovacs · Post by **kovacs** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 12:54 am

Doesn't work at all on my ZX Spectrum. I'd lose the colors and perhaps keep the text to a maximum of 48 characters per page.

Oh, and no music please. Unless it's 8 bit monophonic beeps.

ew · Post by ew » Mon Feb 21, 2005 12:58 am

Works here, Mully.
XP with IE, Firefox and Netscape.
ew

fake · Post by **fake** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 1:03 am

multree wrote:
fake wrote:

BTW, do you use "web safe colours"?

fake
err.. no

Funny, nor do I

Its just that the tutor at this web design course I went on said allways use them as they may not display right on some computers. Somehow I think the info was a bit dated as I don't think it matters with modern stuff.

fake

VitaminD · Post by **VitaminD** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 1:03 am

tried:

IE6 - OK
Firefox - OK
Mozilla - OK
Netscape - OK

PC winXP @ 1024x768

multree · Post by **multree** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 1:04 am

fake wrote:
multree wrote:
fake wrote:

BTW, do you use "web safe colours"?

fake
err.. no
Funny, nor do I

Its just that the tutor at this web design course I went on said allways use them as they may not display right on some computers. Somehow I think the info was a bit dated as I don't think it matters with modern stuff.

fake

good thinking

btw music page is now up, too

multree · Post by **multree** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 1:05 am

kovacs wrote:and no music please. Unless it's 8 bit monophonic beeps.

too late

multree · Post by **multree** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 1:08 am

guys (and gals - if there happens to be one) you are great - thanks so much

Har · Post by **Har** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 3:10 am

multree wrote:oh ha.... that looks complicated.... I'm not using any fancy navigation anyway.... just some hyperlinks using frontpage

Actually MickGael's point is a very valid one...it has nothing to do with using "fancy navigation" or not: you actually are using a single graphic image as hyperlink menu (specifically the file index_01.jpg), and if (for example) someone is visually-impared/fully blind and using a text-to-speech converter to try to "read" you page to them (don't laugh, this is much more commonplace than you might realize)...if your graphics-based hyperlinks don't have an ALT atribute they won't be able to know what the link is!

For example, your "Graphix" link won't tell them that it says "Graphix"...all they'll be told is "IMAGE" which doesn't tell them what the link is, where it goes, etc.

I looked in your code, and you're using an image-map to split up a single graphic menu JPEG (index_01.jpg) into a bunch of hyperlinks...this could be problematic because while some T2S units might be able to read ALT attributes for each "piece" you created for each hyperlink, some might not.

In terms of HTML code, the changes to what your current image map would need to be something like this....notice for example in the first AREA tag something that says 'alt="Photography" ' and so on...really, it's not as complicated to do as you might think

:

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<map name="FPMap0">

<area href="photo.html" shape="rect" coords="407, 94, 496, 118" alt="Photography">

<area href="graphix.html" shape="rect" coords="204, 91, 264, 117" alt="Graphix">

<area href="music.html" shape="rect" coords="265, 90, 312, 117" alt="Music">

</map>

If you don't want to dive into the HTML, I would think/hope FrontPage should allow you add some kind of "alternate text" for the hyperlinks in your navigation graphic...look to see if that is available.

Other options:

-- Create an all-text-link menu at the bottom of each of your pages to act as an alternate text-based form of navigation. This might be the easiest one to put in place if you're fairly new to web design work.

-- If you must use FP, see if it'll allow you to actually "slice up" the single graphic you're using as a navigation menu into actual separate graphics held together with an HTML table...then each graphic can easily have its own ALT atribute. Other more graphic-specific apps like Photoshop will do this kind of thing pretty easily.
Actually, in your code I see "" ...which means either you or someone for you is already using Photoshop/ImageReady....so you should be able to do a slice-up pretty easily.

Hope this helps a little!

--Har

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