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Thanks for replying so quickly.

Unless I am missing something the thread you quoted only contains info on how to do the product images and the category images. I have these done already.

What I want to do is add the alt image tags to the title image that appears at the top of each page on the site (if it is selected to do so).

On  you can see the image "welcome to my online store" on the splash page and "online store" on the store page (products) these images are used throughout the site on all the pages including my custom user pages.

So how do I or where do I attach the alt image tags to these images???

I've only recently got the SEO module so I don't know it inside out yet, however it looks like the variables (i.e. page_titleimg) are all set in the ste_exec.pl file. There are a couple of ways of doing this - you could either add an extra column in the relevant databases and assign an alt tag name to each page but that might be overkill in your case. If you are happy to use the same name for the image name and alt tag (i.e. contact_us.gif and 'contact us') then try the following. Just remember to back up your ste_exec file in case it goes wrong - I haven't tested it!!

In ste_exec search for page_titleimg, my first occurence is at this point:

foreach $row(@dynform) {

($dynform_id,$dynform_name,$dynform_email,$dynform_titleimg,$dynform_usetitleimg,$dynform_content) = @$row;

$page_id = "$dynform_id";
$page_name = "$dynform_name";
$page_content = "$dynform_content";
$page_titleimg = "$dynform_titleimg";
$page_usetitleimg = "$dynform_usetitleimg";
$page_storestatus = "N";

$form_matched = "Y";

} ######### End of foreach statement.

Basically this perl file goes through all the different types of pages and allocates the $page variables depending on the relevant database. Underneath the $page_storestatus line add:

$page_titleimgalt = $page_titleimg;
$page_titleimgalt =~ s/.gif//g;
$page_titleimgalt =~ s/_/ /g;

First of all a new variable of $page_titleimagalt is allocated the $page_titleimg value and then a search and replace removes the .gif extension, with the second one replacing '_' with a space. You need to carry on throughout the ste_exec.pl and find all occurances of $page_titleimg and add the same code.

Finally you can then change the alt tag to (CGIVAR)page_titleimgalt(/CGIVAR) and that should work! Note that this assumes all your title images end in .gif - let me know how you get on.

Mike

This Mod works a treat! I completed it in January, sorry I forgot to let you all know how I got on.

I tweaked it slightly to include all pages as follows.

Find the following code in the ste_exec.pl file

$page_id = "$dynform_id";
$page_name = "$dynform_name";
$page_content = "$dynform_content";
$page_titleimg = "$dynform_titleimg";
$page_usetitleimg = "$dynform_usetitleimg";
$page_storestatus = "N";

add this directly underneath

##########################################################################################
########ADDED TO GENERATE PAGE TITLE IMAGE ALT TEXT FROM IMAGE NAME#######################
##########################################################################################

$page_titleimgalt = $page_titleimg;
$page_titleimgalt =~ s/.gif//g;
$page_titleimgalt =~ s/_/ /g;

##########################################################################################
########END OF GENERATE PAGE TITLE IMAGE ALT TEXT FROM IMAGE NAME#######################
##########################################################################################

Then find the following code futher down in the ste_exec.pl file

$page_id = "$ssyspage_id";
$page_name = "$ssyspage_name";
$page_content = "$ssyspage_content";
$page_titleimg = "$ssyspage_titleimg";
$page_usetitleimg = "$ssyspage_usetitleimg";
$page_storestatus = "$syspage_storestatus";

add this directly underneath

##########################################################################################
########ADDED TO GENERATE PAGE TITLE IMAGE ALT TEXT FROM IMAGE NAME#######################
##########################################################################################

$page_titleimgalt = $page_titleimg;
$page_titleimgalt =~ s/.gif//g;
$page_titleimgalt =~ s/_/ /g;

##########################################################################################
########END OF GENERATE PAGE TITLE IMAGE ALT TEXT FROM IMAGE NAME#######################
##########################################################################################

now you can rename your page title images as follows.

Original names like this:

title_splash.gif
title_contact.gif
title_privacy.gif
title_feedback.gif

shoud be renamed as:

Welcome_to_Our_Store.gif
Contact_Us.gif
Privacy_Policy.gif
Customer_Feedback.gif

Etc. Etc.

You can view how this looks if you visit my site (link below)

After tweaking all of my alt image tags for SEO I had trouble locating where to find the alt tags for the title images which this mod sorts out! I now have all of my site alt tags filled ("" for cosmetic images).

That combined with the ATS SEO Mod have greatly improved my ranking, and I now have a google pagerank of 3 after only 5 months of operation with only my first 50 products of 1400. (testing the water)
My next job is to go through and add the title tag for netscape users!!

Many thanks to MikeyT for his input on this one.