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Caitlyn Grasso

8 Years Ago

Just Curious About "hover Over" Text

I was just wondering how they decide what the text will be for different images. The choices seem to be "Art Prints," "Photography Prints," and "Sell Art Online." The strange thing is that when I hover over some paintings in discussions, it says "Photography Prints"! There doesn't seem to be much reason behind it. Just curious.

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Jane McIlroy

8 Years Ago

The text for the 'alt' and 'title' tags seems to be generated randomly, so nobody actually takes a decision about what should show for an individual image. 'Photography Prints' on a painting does look a bit out of place, an example of where automated systems beak down. Luckily, we can change the text ourselves when posting an image, so there's no need to accept what the system provides.

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Caitlyn Grasso

8 Years Ago

Thank you both for your comments! Maybe they should link the "hover" comment to the media somehow. But, I do try to remember to change it for the discussion threads! Though from reading through the link above maybe it would be more useful to put in keywords than a title and my name.

 

Abbie Shores

8 Years Ago

No, Google will ignore if just keywords. They like descriptions

 

Mike Savad

8 Years Ago

technically you should name it your own thing with your own name (wish it simply did that). but every time i did it, i messed up one little thing and it went bad. so i gave it up.


---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

 

Kathleen Bishop

8 Years Ago

Wish there was a way to add our custom alt tag at upload rather than the canned one.

 

Caitlyn Grasso

8 Years Ago

I agree! An automatic tag with "Title by Artist Name" would be nice. Unfortunately, I don't think it will display as the image floats around the internet - that would be useful. But, at least it would display in the discussions. I don't know how much coding would be required though. I'm sure that there must be a long list of changes that they are already working on. Maybe we can suggest it as an addition to the list?

 

Mike Savad

8 Years Ago

we do have the new suggestion list, just dump it in there. i can't imagine it being any harder than the random version we have now.

---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

 

Caitlyn Grasso

8 Years Ago

I probably ought to know this, but where is the suggestion list? When I did a search in the discussions the only thing that I saw was a few months ago.

 

Mike Savad

8 Years Ago

a new one was made, andee made it. it should be still there.

---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

 

Caitlyn Grasso

8 Years Ago

I found it! I had to search on "suggestion" instead of "suggestion list."

 

Caitlyn Grasso

8 Years Ago



I found it and posted. Thanks.

 

Robert Kernodle

8 Years Ago

The thing about changing the "alt" text is that you can do it ONLY for one use in the particular discussion that you are in.

The rest of the world sees (if they even look) this nameless generic add that really promotes FAA as a business, using our image. Search engines, thus, encounter zillions of images all advertising "sell art online" or some other interest that the business has.

I wish that the "alt" text automatically had MY name in front of those generic messages, .. at least.

MY image should be selling ME.

My main interest, then, is what the search engines encounter. Viewers will probably never read the "alt" text.

 

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