Graphic Headlines Options
crollins
Posted: Thursday, May 31, 2007 9:35:06 PM
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Graphic headlines arent working, only a broken image appears on my site. I'm using Umbraco 2.1.7.
crollins
Posted: Thursday, May 31, 2007 9:39:13 PM
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Charlie Rollins wrote:

Graphic headlines arent working, only a broken image appears on my site. I'm using Umbraco 2.1.7.


*2.1.6
sjors
Posted: Friday, June 01, 2007 10:27:46 AM

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Using SIFR is in many cases also an option....
drobar
Posted: Friday, June 01, 2007 1:41:17 PM

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You might also consider ImageGen, which is very popular in the umbraco community. You can get ImageGen at http://www.percipientstudios.com/imagegen/overview.aspx.

cheers,
doug.

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sjors
Posted: Friday, June 01, 2007 2:14:06 PM

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Imagegen is ok, but when SEO is important SIFR is a big plus.
warren
Posted: Friday, June 01, 2007 6:29:03 PM

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I would agree with Sjors and I think sIFR3 is a good solution personally hence its used in my website package.

Warren

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Ig_p118
Posted: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 10:34:10 AM
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There is a good example of using SIRF

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Ig_p118
Posted: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 10:34:40 AM
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Biagio wrote:

There is a good example of using sIFR3?


sIFR3?


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tkahn
Posted: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 11:55:57 AM

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Sjors Pals wrote:

Imagegen is ok, but when SEO is important SIFR is a big plus.


Speaking of SEO, I'm using imageGen to generate graphic headlines and I too have thought about the implications of this when search engines are to index the pages.

I'm not sure that this actually works, but I usually put a h1-tag around the page headline image and hope that the alt-text of the image will work as text. Sometimes I create double h1-tags where one is an image and the other is the headline in plain text. The h1 that surrounds the plain text headline is then set as hidden in the stylesheet.

I'm not happy with this solution and I'd love it if anyone has any pointers or good websites with practical SEO tips.

Web Developer at Kärnhuset - http://www.karnhuset.net - Stockholm, Sweden
mortenbock
Posted: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 12:23:04 PM

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Thomas Kahn wrote:

Sometimes I create double h1-tags where one is an image and the other is the headline in plain text. The h1 that surrounds the plain text headline is then set as hidden in the stylesheet.


This is actually pretty close to a good solution, that is used widely in CSS Zengarden, and also a good SEO option.

Make your headline like this:

<h1 style="background('/umbraco/imagegen.aspx?yourParametersHere')"><span>My headline</span></h1>

And then use css in your stylsheet to hide the <span> part of the heading.

See an example of it here:
http://csszengarden.com/?cssfile=/209/209.css&page=0

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tkahn
Posted: Saturday, May 03, 2008 12:01:33 AM

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I have documented my efforts regarding this here:

http://umbraco.blogspot.com/2008/05/graphic-headlines-while-maintaining.html

/Thomas

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Ig_p118
Posted: Saturday, May 03, 2008 9:10:36 AM
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Ig_p118 wrote:
Biagio wrote:

There is a good example of using sIFR3?


sIFR3?


Yes. I had tried to use it, but don't work into Umbraco, or maybe I'm not able to use it...Think

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imayat12
Posted: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 9:47:04 AM

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Guys,

I had some issues with sifr i used Doug's image gen instead with suggestion from Morten to make it seo compliant.

Regards

Ismail

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Ig_p118
Posted: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 11:54:14 AM
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mortenbock wrote:
Thomas Kahn wrote:

Sometimes I create double h1-tags where one is an image and the other is the headline in plain text. The h1 that surrounds the plain text headline is then set as hidden in the stylesheet.


This is actually pretty close to a good solution, that is used widely in CSS Zengarden, and also a good SEO option.

Make your headline like this:

<h1 style="background('/umbraco/imagegen.aspx?yourParametersHere')"><span>My headline</span></h1>

And then use css in your stylsheet to hide the <span> part of the heading.

See an example of it here:
http://csszengarden.com/?cssfile=/209/209.css&page=0


Do you mean setup hidden to span tag in css?

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