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image alt tags on a php site Mike 02-26-2008
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Posted by Mike on February 26, 2008, 2:22 pm
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Hi:

Long time no post.

I'm used to building html sites. A client wants a huge commercial site. The
initial build alone will be about 700+/- pages, with more to come on a
constant basis.

The webmeister is using php. I asked if he could create a backend gui for me
to add alt tags to all images. Each image would have an alt tag describing
it to some degree. And I already got them to rename the images to something
that makes sense ( example: fiberglass-boat.gif instead of zl3klm.gif ).

The webmeister says it is impossible to add such a gui. We already made a
gui that'll allow me to make individual titles for each page, instaed of
having no titles, or the same silly title hundreds of times.

So, afaik I have to either build the thing in static html so I can do what I
need to do, or find a way to incorporate php into parts of the html, or just
leave him be and have no alt tags.

Anyone have any input?

Thanx much in advance.

Mike



Posted by John Bokma on February 26, 2008, 2:39 pm
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> The webmeister says it is impossible to add such a gui. We already
> made a gui that'll allow me to make individual titles for each page,
> instaed of having no titles, or the same silly title hundreds of
> times.

Fire the incompetent webmaster. Maybe he's cheap, but he is getting
expensive by being incomptent already.

How are images uploaded? Via the website? Let your programmer make the
following change:

* Use the original filename as alt tag (for example

        "Fiberglass boat that keeps you afloat.jpg")

* rename the filename on-site with the following recipe:

        - make all characters lowercase
        - replace letters with accents with their unaccented version
        - replace all characters that are nor letters nor digits with
         the '-' character (without the quotes, of course)
        - replace sequences with 2 or more '-' characters with one '-'
        - remove leading and trailing '-'
        - if there already exists a file with this name, add a sequence
         number to it.


-> fiberglass-boat-that-keeps-you-afloat.jpg

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John Bokma http://johnbokma.com/

Posted by canadafred on February 26, 2008, 6:12 pm
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> So, afaik I have to either build the thing in static html so I can do what=
I
> need to do

Seeing that you can't convince the paint-by-number designer to alter
his PHP files ( probably doesn't know how ) then that's exactly what I
would do. A few pages each day. Give each page TLC.

Posted by Buzby on February 28, 2008, 4:18 am
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Mike wibbled:

> Hi:
>
> Long time no post.
>
> I'm used to building html sites. A client wants a huge commercial
> site. The initial build alone will be about 700+/- pages, with more
> to come on a constant basis.
>
> The webmeister is using php. I asked if he could create a backend gui
> for me to add alt tags to all images. Each image would have an alt
> tag describing it to some degree. And I already got them to rename
> the images to something that makes sense ( example:
> fiberglass-boat.gif instead of zl3klm.gif ).
>
> The webmeister says it is impossible to add such a gui. We already
> made a gui that'll allow me to make individual titles for each page,
> instaed of having no titles, or the same silly title hundreds of
> times.
>
> So, afaik I have to either build the thing in static html so I can do
> what I need to do, or find a way to incorporate php into parts of the
> html, or just leave him be and have no alt tags.
>
> Anyone have any input?
>
> Thanx much in advance.


Oh dear.

Get rid of your 'developer' - this is very easily done - as the photo
file is uploaded get him to write the photo info to the underlying
database - you can then add you're alt tags along with your page
content etc etc which will then be pulled up when the page is requested.



--
Buzby
There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot

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