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How do I put a link on my logo?
Thank you
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wesbao said:How do I put a link on my logo?
How do I put a link on my logo?
mbstevens said:alt="logo" />
"logo" is pretty poor alt text. It should be a replacement for an image, not
a brief description of it (sometimes a brief description is a good
replacement, but not usually).
Remember, if images are turned off, this is the same as:
<a href="someOther.html">logo</a>
Does that make sense?
wesbao said:How do I put a link on my logo?
[...] in the absence of more information about
what his business or lack thereof is, 'logo' was about the best
I could come up with.
[...] in the absence of more information about
what his business or lack thereof is, 'logo' was about the best
I could come up with.
alt="Foo corporation" (if the name of the corporation isn't already
there in text alongside), or alt="" if it isn't. Works for any
unspecified corporation, and it's obvious how to adapt it.
alt="logo" is almost certainly wrong, and sets others a bad model to
work from.
Well, as long as we're going to be _fanciful_, I would prefer:
alt = "logo of the Foo corporation -- flock of vultures attacking a
rabbit which is sitting atop a pyramid with an eye on it"
The information that it _is_ a logo is of some importance to
_some_ people.
But is it important in the context of the document?
In most cases the purpose of displaying a logo is to brand a page, not to
inform people what the logo looks like.
wesbao said:Thanks David:
I must be doing something wrong or missing a character.
I used this link code to my photo and if failed to link to my profile.
<p><a href="URL/</p>
Please help, what am i doing wrong?
David Dorward wrote:
I believe that if I were blind, I would want to know not only
what the company was, but that I was 'looking' at a logo.
(Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think you and Allen are actually
whacking me about what you might call sloppy pedagogy on my part.
If I'm trying to find out about the new Rocket Skates from Acme Inc then I'd
want to know that I was looking at Acme Inc's website - but why would I
care that it was a logo conveying that information?
Oh, and alt text is not "for the blind", it is there for any user or bot
that can't interpret images with their client and physical situation.
BTW, the longdesc attribute provides a facility for providing a description
of an image.
<p><a href="URL/</p>
Please help, what am i doing wrong?
___________________________________________________________________The skeleton should look like:
<p>
<a href= <!-- insert URL here between quotation marks -->
<img
src=<!-- insert URL of image here between quotation marks -->
height=<!-- insert height here between quotation marks -->
width=<!-- insert width here between quotation marks -->
alt="logo of the Foo corporation
-- flock of vultures attacking a
rabbit which is sitting atop a pyramid
with an eye on it" />
longdesc="
mbstevens said:It would be significant to me.
I'm reminded of the scene in "Lost in
Translation" where a director spends a full minute describing to Bill
Murray exactly what he wants him to do. The translator then turns to
Murray and says "He says, turn and smile to camera."
If you're someone
who has never seen a company's logo, and who will never be able to see
it, it might be useful for the web author to give you a little extra
information.
When looking at future pages relating to that company,
you can just see the word 'logo' toward the front of the description and
will remember what you read previously.
Well, as long as we're going to be _fanciful_, I would prefer:
alt = "logo of the Foo corporation -- flock of vultures attacking a
rabbit which is sitting atop a pyramid with an eye on it"
The information that it _is_ a logo is of some importance to
_some_ people.
That is hardly ever a meaningful textual replacement for the author's
intention in placing a logo on the page. It's there to establish or
reinforce the brand (that's why it's a logo, after all).
.........
Sure. Haven't you heard about the "title=" attribute, for supplying
optional additional information about the element to which it's
applied? Doesn't that seem to fit the description of what you
just said that you wanted?
Why? You are trying to find out about the Rocket Skates - what does the
company logo have to do with that?
I haven't see the film, but presumably the director is trying to describe
exactly how he should act. The purpose of the conversation is to describe
exactly how he should act. The purpose of the webpage is to describe the
Rocket Skates, not the logo.
Why? And what is wrong with longdesc?
And then have more scrolling or listening to get past the description that
you've already read / heard.
The purpose of logos is usually to provide brand recognition. You see the
logo, you associate it with the company at a glance. It isn't there so
people can think of the company logo and go "Oooh, pretty".
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