Image Alt Text

[Larry Bohen]

We use MS Access to maintain our product db and upload to our ShopSite Pro
8.0.1 Web store.

Many of our images do not have alt text and many of those that do, I want to
change.

Can I add a field to our Access db for alt text and upload new/changed alt
text for each record (product)?

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Larry Bohen
www.audiobooksonline.com

[jim]

The general answer is no. The alt tag is associated with an image in a
file called .inf.<imagename> that is stored in the same directory as the
image. This file is what is edited when you Edit image attributes under
the Images section. When you use a tag like [-- product.graphic --]
the contents of this .inf file is what is put in the page source.

There is no connection between the product upload and the .inf file for
the image so there is no automatic way that this could be done.

Instead of using the template tags like [-- product.graph --] you could
build the entire html for the image using other custom template tags and
store the information needed for size, alt tag etc in the 5 custom
fields. This wouldn't necessarily be easy but it would be possible.

Jim




Larry Bohen wrote:

We use MS Access to maintain our product db and upload to our ShopSite Pro
8.0.1 Web store.

Many of our images do not have alt text and many of those that do, I want to
change.

Can I add a field to our Access db for alt text and upload new/changed alt
text for each record (product)?

[Gary Kennedy]

Stone Edge has a product I use with Shopsite call Ecom Assembler. With this
I can use any alt tag I want. Call me if you have any questions.

Gary Kennedy
gkennedy@martyshoes.com
www.martyshoes.com
201-319-0500 ext. 230
Fax 201-319-1446

Marty Shoes Inc.
60 Enterprise Ave. N.
Secaucus, NJ 07094
"Larry Bohen" <lbohen@audiobooksonline.com> wrote in message
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We use MS Access to maintain our product db and upload to our ShopSite Pro
8.0.1 Web store.

Many of our images do not have alt text and many of those that do, I want
to change.

Can I add a field to our Access db for alt text and upload new/changed alt
text for each record (product)?

--
Larry Bohen
www.audiobooksonline.com