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Jimbob
5th April 2005, 15:04
Hi there
I provide IT and internet skills to small businesses who dont have the money to employ people to provide these skills in-house.
If you need :
- advice on how to make your existing website more popular
- ways to make your business systems more streamlined
- a website built and hosted
- office systems to actually work!
- someone to look after your IT projects
I can help.
James
Ozzy
5th April 2005, 15:08
Hi James,
Welcome onboard. Before anyone else mentioned your website...
I like the look and bubbly feel to it, but someone is bound to mention that as all the text is images its not search engine friendly.
10 Yetis
5th April 2005, 18:14
James...
I Echo the mighty Ozzy's thoughts... but man, it looks good.
Welcome.
microbe
5th April 2005, 18:30
There is plenty of text there, you just can't see it. Try disabling styles in your browser. :D
Ozzy
5th April 2005, 18:34
Ah ha ;)
kyber
12th April 2005, 15:36
Sneeky :-) ..... like the approach. Nice that you have found a good niche for yourself.
Stuart
Ozzy
12th April 2005, 15:42
Going back to this hidden text, that could give you problems with SEO as the search engines could black list you. I'd move to visible text if I was you :)
kyber
12th April 2005, 15:54
Going back to this hidden text, that could give you problems with SEO as the search engines could black list you. I'd move to visible text if I was you :)Do you think the search engines are starting to make sense of style sheets then Richard?
microbe
12th April 2005, 16:07
In this case the human visible text and the machine readable text are the same, so this doesn't really qualify as 'cloaking' - so I don't think it is likely to cause a problem with search engines, but they are a law unto themselves...
On the other hand it does seem to me that creating a picture of text is a pretty odd thing to want to do. For a small site like this one, which is quite well done and offers a text version as well, fine, I suppose, but there are all sorts of usability/accessibility issues which arise from this.
Sony Pictures are building this kind of crap: http://www.sonyclassics.com/13conversations which is just stupid and lazy - large amounts of text, which is not text at all. Looks great but sucks on just so many levels. Mind you I wish I was a big enough ****** to get the contract for building their junk for them.