anytime732 wrote:ok i understand so far, i guess my next question would be is there anyway of getting search engines to see the text in the descriptions of the images?
That is exactly what we will be trying to do for the next release, based on the suggestion from markam24 that google doesn't index URLs ending with *.jpg. If we fix that, not only will it index the page, but it will index the page based on the data on the page, including the title and description.
Before this would even work for you though, you need to make your HTML gallery visible to google. The reason your HTML gallery is not visible to google, is because you have embedded it into a custom website. Now, your HTML gallery is here:
www.sherwoodsfabrics.co.uk/fabrics/index.php?p=html
In the default galleries, like our
demo gallery, there is a hidden link to the sibling html site:
Optionally, you can view the HTML gallery page instead:<br />
» <a href="?p=html">HTML gallery</a>
I checked your gallery at sherwoodfabrics, and you have this:
<div id="imagevue">
<script type="text/javascript">
//<![CDATA[
var flashVars = {
};
swfobject.embedSWF("imagevue/imagevue2.swf", "imagevue", "950", "700", "8.0.0", "imagevue/expressInstall.swf", flashVars, {allowScriptAccess: 'always', allowFullScreen: true, bgcolor: '333333'}, {id: 'imagevue', name: 'imagevue'});
// ]]>
</script>
</div>
Perhaps you should change it to this, adding a link to your HTML gallery similar to the default imagevue x2 gallery container file.
<div id="imagevue">
<h1>Oops! - This page requires javascript -</h1><br />
Please enable javascript in your browser and reload page.<br /><br />
Optionally, you can view the HTML gallery page instead:<br />
<a href="index.php?p=html">HTML gallery</a>
<script type="text/javascript">
//<![CDATA[
var flashVars = {
};
swfobject.embedSWF("imagevue/imagevue2.swf", "imagevue", "950", "700", "8.0.0", "imagevue/expressInstall.swf", flashVars, {allowScriptAccess: 'always', allowFullScreen: true, bgcolor: '333333'}, {id: 'imagevue', name: 'imagevue'});
// ]]>
</script>
</div>
After doing this, google will eventually index your HTML gallery once it re-crawls your site.
anytime732 wrote:ps. is it me or are things getting a little hostile in here?
Nothing hostile here. Just trying to explain that there are some things we can improve to a certain extent, some things you can do(to make your html gallery visible to google), and some things which simply can't be achieved unfortunately.