I’ve recently built a website on Freeway Express for my cartoons, and have done this by creating a number of thumbnail galleries in Showcase before exporting them to Freeway. I’ve included a caption for each image whilst in Showcase, but I’m not sure about the following:
- Whether the captions automatically get converted to image alt tags when exported to Freeway
- Whether I need to add a hyphen between words in my captions (to prevent alt tags being generated with all the words stuck together and being unreadable by search engines).
Any help would be much appreciated!
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Yes your captions are converted to alt text and make the title too.
Spaces are preserved in the text.
But if you want to post a link to your site online we can look and check for you.
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Hi David,
Thanks for the response - much appreciated!
I’ve selected 1px height for the thumbnail captions and 0px height for the large images - this ensures the captions aren’t visible when viewing. Will the captions still be converted to alt text?
My site is paperthin-cartoons.co.uk if you wouldn’t mind checking for me.
Many thanks!
Steve
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Also just noticed that the pages for my large images in the cartoon galleries are taking a long time to load. Do you know if this is down to the size of the large images (currently up to 730 px), and if so, if I reduce the image size will I get quicker page loads?
Any advice would be much appreciated!
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Do you know if this is down to the size of the large images (currently up to 730 px), and if so, if I reduce the image size will I get quicker page loads?
Yes this is entirely because of the size of these files - the rock cartoon pics are 3/4 Mb which is HUGE for this sort of image. 1st thing I would do is make them jpeg and not png. A png is a much larger file size.
And once you have them as jpegs you can adjust the compression to get them even smaller.
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Thanks David - have saved my images as JPEGs at 75% quality. Do you know how I could check the individual image sizes on the site to make sure they’re still not too big?
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- have saved my images as JPEGs at 75% quality
You can easily use the finder to select individual files in the Resources folder and see how big they are (after publish)
Have you pre-processed your images using Pshop or similar?
If so then you can determine the file size there.
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Thanks David!
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Does the simple site search function in Pro read image alt tags in a thumbnail gallery page generated from Showcase?
I’d like a site search to turn up the thumbnail gallery page when ever any words contained in the captions or alt image text from any of the thumbnail images is entered.
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