Monday, June 29, 2009
Revised Image Replacement
As part of a project I have been looking into the different methods of displaying a "header" image but having a proper H1 tag underneath it.
This is needed as a client wants pretty images as headers for their pages but from an SEO (and accessibility) perspective there should be H1 tags at the top of the page acting as a header.
After trawling through several forums and websites I came across a page giving examples of hiding headers under images along with the code and drawbacks of each method.
I was even more interested to see that there was an update in 2008 giving details of how Google treats hidden headers. This seems to suggest that what I want to do is not frowned upon - a very important consideration when dealing with clients sites.
Of course, more reading up is needed to confirm the Google comments (I never trust anything I find on a webpage until I have seen it elsewhere on another good quality site - especially after seeing V2 rockets described as Doodlebugs and that Queen Elizabeth the first of England married King Phillip of Spain) but it's a good start.
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As part of a project I have been looking into the different methods of displaying a "header" image but having a proper H1 tag underneath it.
This is needed as a client wants pretty images as headers for their pages but from an SEO (and accessibility) perspective there should be H1 tags at the top of the page acting as a header.
After trawling through several forums and websites I came across a page giving examples of hiding headers under images along with the code and drawbacks of each method.
I was even more interested to see that there was an update in 2008 giving details of how Google treats hidden headers. This seems to suggest that what I want to do is not frowned upon - a very important consideration when dealing with clients sites.
Of course, more reading up is needed to confirm the Google comments (I never trust anything I find on a webpage until I have seen it elsewhere on another good quality site - especially after seeing V2 rockets described as Doodlebugs and that Queen Elizabeth the first of England married King Phillip of Spain) but it's a good start.
Labels: google, h1, headers, image replacement, search engines, SEO
Monday, June 15, 2009
A personal rant
I have a business bank account with a bank here in the UK. It seems that their systems had a problem in January and thay they have just realised that customers may have gone overdrawn in December and not been charged. It certainly came as a suprise to me to see a note on my statement issued for the month from 7th May to 6th June that the bank were going to charge me £32 for a transaction on the 6th December.
Banks wonder why they have such a bad reputation, well - having a system that doesn't recognise that you should have charged a customer and finding out 6 months later does tend to suggest that they are not fit or able to keep track of customers money, or their own for that matter.
It's not the fact that the charge is there that worries me, it's the 6 months it took them to find that I should have been charged.
Time to look for a new bank I think.
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I have a business bank account with a bank here in the UK. It seems that their systems had a problem in January and thay they have just realised that customers may have gone overdrawn in December and not been charged. It certainly came as a suprise to me to see a note on my statement issued for the month from 7th May to 6th June that the bank were going to charge me £32 for a transaction on the 6th December.
Banks wonder why they have such a bad reputation, well - having a system that doesn't recognise that you should have charged a customer and finding out 6 months later does tend to suggest that they are not fit or able to keep track of customers money, or their own for that matter.
It's not the fact that the charge is there that worries me, it's the 6 months it took them to find that I should have been charged.
Time to look for a new bank I think.
Labels: Abbey, bank charges, business banking
