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Alt tag using photoshop
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Simple question i think. Ive started adding alt tags to images using the slice tool in photoshop. This takes up a menu were the last part of is alt tag:
This way to add alt tags does work right? I used SEO-browser afterwards and couldnt see the tag. There are maybe other better ways to see if your tags are in there ?
Dan L.
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Try this tool: http://www.feedthebot.com/tools/alt/
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Does this seem okay ?
<dl>
<dt>Format: JPEG</dt>
<dt>Dimensions: 600w x 536h</dt>
<dt>Size: 322,7K</dt>
<dt>Settings: Quality is 100, Non-Progressive, Optimized on</dt>
</dl>
`<title>smÂfolk-barneklÊr-gensertraktor</title> ` ```eh and as you see there are some norwegian letters in there..
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Spot on - thanks. Ive just been adding the alt text saving it the regular way. I just have to use save for web devices and specify.
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Thanks. So I actuallyhave to consider file name of image, title text of image and alt text.
The website we are using is delivered from a company - so quite some of the coding etc isnt accessible by me. I am just adding the picture and text. So my way to do this i guess have to be to 'mark' the image with the necessary info before uploading it to the site.
I think i use title text. When clicking image on our website that takes you to the product page where there is a description of the product or image. At least when i use seo-browser part of this product info seems to be applied to the picture but not in full (eg when I profile a product image on home page) there is a part of this product info shown when opening source of homepage.
EDIT: I might have to talk to my webshop provider. My basic knowledge is a bit sparse but it isnt possible to add HTML to an image file eg .jpg and still keep it in an image file format ? What i do basically in our webshop is to upload the image in the 'right' folder and then add the image text. This is done for maybe 70-100 products 2-3 times a year. Adding it in the code isnt available to me and doesnt seem like an option with this volume ?
Anyone have any ideas ?
This is the website if its any help: http://epleskrinet.no/
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This feature is a little confusing. Alt text is an attribute of the img tag in HTML, so this would normally be outside the realm of photoshop. To use the photoshop alt text feature, you need to export the HTML for the image when you're saving it.
See http://www.adobe.com/accessibility/products/photoshop/images.html under the heading "Exporting HTML from photoshop".
Once you've exported the html, you can paste it into your html document. To me, its all much more complicated than simply typing out < img src="myimage.jpg" alt="My alt text" / > but that may be due to my technical background.
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Also, you might consider adding title text as well to your images. Here's a Search Engine Journal post about it. The title is less important for SEO, but can enhance the experience users.
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If you view the source of your page (hitting cntl +u should do this), and find the image on the page, it should have an alt attribute on it. For example:
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