How to Change Alt Tag Description?

[Larry Bohen]

We use the standard ShopSite SC Pro product templates, which I understand
"....uses the image name if you do not set a value for alt." In our case,
this default Alt tag value (which ShopSite uses) is the catalog number,
which is not descriptive (to a visitor). I would like the Alt tag to be the
title of the audiobook. Manually changing each Image Attribute (which
contains other info) is an exhaustive effort.

We maintain our product database on my desktop with MS Access and upload to
ShopSite. I would like to be able to designate Alt tags in a field of the
database and have ShopSite use my description as the Alt tag. Can I do this?

[loren_d_c]

No, the ALT tag (andother image attributes like size, border, etc) only
comes from the Image Attributes, which cannot be changed via an upload.

-Loren


Larry Bohen wrote:

We use the standard ShopSite SC Pro product templates, which I understand
"....uses the image name if you do not set a value for alt." In our case,
this default Alt tag value (which ShopSite uses) is the catalog number,
which is not descriptive (to a visitor). I would like the Alt tag to be the
title of the audiobook. Manually changing each Image Attribute (which
contains other info) is an exhaustive effort.

We maintain our product database on my desktop with MS Access and upload to
ShopSite. I would like to be able to designate Alt tags in a field of the
database and have ShopSite use my description as the Alt tag. Can I do this?

[Keith Petty]

Hi Larry,

Try this.
FTP into the media directory of your shopsite store.
There are files there that look like this
( .inf.ImageName.jpg ) or ( .inf.ImageName.gif ) .
which match the image file name with the " .inf. " added to the front.

Down load the files you want to have the changes made to.

<!-- commenting these next lines so that someone's browser does not try to load
the images

Here is an example of the text in one of the files:
<img src="http://www.YourStoreName.com/store/media/24kt_dip_roseS.jpg" width=170
height=112 alt="24kt_dip_roseS.jpg" hspace=3 vspace=3 border=0>

Open them in a text editor and make changes... something like this:
<img src="http://www.YourStoreName.com/store/media/24kt_dip_roseS.jpg" width=170
height=112 alt="A Beautiful 24kt Gold Dipped Rose" hspace=3 vspace=3 border=0>

Or write some code to pull the desired ( alt="your own description" ) from a
database and write it into the files.

End of comment line -->

Now simply FTP into the media directory of your shopsite store and upload the
changed files.
Regenerate the store and you are done.

Keith

Larry Bohen wrote:

We use the standard ShopSite SC Pro product templates, which I understand
"....uses the image name if you do not set a value for alt." In our case,
this default Alt tag value (which ShopSite uses) is the catalog number,
which is not descriptive (to a visitor). I would like the Alt tag to be the
title of the audiobook. Manually changing each Image Attribute (which
contains other info) is an exhaustive effort.

We maintain our product database on my desktop with MS Access and upload to
ShopSite. I would like to be able to designate Alt tags in a field of the
database and have ShopSite use my description as the Alt tag. Can I do this?