Right now, the subject's name is in the t title the name of every image (I could stand to give them alt text too), and at the top of each page in no header tag at all. and the site name is t h1 linking back to root. Would making the person's name an t h2 tag have a significant effect?

The system is set to automate caption displays the same way it parses for the pictures themselves. I use that spottily, though. If there's a credit to the photo of an interesting source (like, if it's from theatre) I use it, but it's rare. I could get better at that, but I don't know if your eyes would cross if there are ten pictures of Shemar Moore with his name under every one as well as at the top of the page.

Jesus, 10 pictures of Shemar Moore. No rush on answering the questions, I'm going to be mentally inaccessible for a while here.

serial: What do you mean by descriptive file names? Right now the pages are built by scanning the image folder and parsing the file names. I don't want to mess with that, but if I get better at adding a caption file for each image, there's room to play with there.

I could change the alt text to be the name of the person and the topic of the site.

Would making the person's name an tag have a significant effect?

Probably so, yes. At any rate, it's worth a shot.

No rush on answering the questions, I'm going to be mentally inaccessible for a while here.

Understood. I got a little distracted doing research myself.

Would making the person's name an tag have a significant effect?

As I understand it, it could under some algorithms. It doesn't help that the search engines are moving targets.

What do you mean by descriptive file names?

Things like colin_firth_in_a_bathtub.jpg as opposed to colin_firth_03.jpg, for ex.

(OH HAI COLIN FIRTH IN A BATHTUB!!)

I could change the alt text to be the name of the person and the topic of the site.

That might help. This stuff is always a little experimental anyway -- there's no definitive guide. But the more the machine has to go on, and the better structured it is to show what people would actually be looking for, the better. After all, the machine knows about cat videos now, so how far off can wet men be?

(we could do more research on yr sites, I'm sure.)

Hmm. Changing the filenames from sequential order would mean recoding the entire system of sites, so that's outside my scope.

I think I'll h2 tag the names, make the alt text a tiny bit more descriptive and use captions more often.

If I could work out a way to incorporate "Iron Man" and "Avengers" into a RDJ page, for instance, but it's not like I want to tell the viewer those words. That they know. I just want Skynet to know...or maybe it already does.

My understanding is that search engines go by headers, then text, then alt text, then file names, more or less. (amych, jump in if any of this is crazy talk.) Links to the site are increasingly important. So if all the Buffistas with blogs linked to all the Buffista blogs, their positions would all go higher.

So my brain adapted fine to the new trackpad scrolling paradigm in OS X Lion.

Just one quibble: Now I keep on scrolling the wrong way while using the mouse's scroll wheel on my work computer. It's an XP machine with a Microsoft USB Intellimouse and there's no way to reverse the scroll wheel direction.

(Yeah, we're still on XP. Vista was out when we bought these computers, but our hardware consultants refused to support Vista so we got the computers with XP.)

I guess I'm SOL unless I want to do some hardware hacking.

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