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Comment on PHP Image Replacement

2007-10-15T18:23:12+01:00

Comment by Nils Zimmermann ( http://www.saltylemon.de )

If Google finds out - and they will find out - your site gets kicked from the google index.

Have a nice day...

http://www.derjagdhundshop.de

Comment on PHP Image Replacement

2007-02-12T11:33:36+00:00

Comment by sbihl ( http://www.sbihl.de/ )

Great solution for image replacement. Normally I used a negative text-intent to hide the text. Your way is much better.

Comment on PHP Image Replacement

2006-04-07T18:26:36+01:00

Comment by Rohit ( http:// )

Interesting discussion. Although this is somewhat old, I wanted to put my .02 cents in. First, this has its pitfalls because even though a bot--like googlebot--may not be able to view images, they still crawl and record the fact that you have an image on your server. Then, when people view your site with google cache etc., the image is served appropriately. Using this method, you'll save bandwidth if you're getting crawled a billion times a day--which is conceivable given all the horrible bots--but you may also be presenting a different version of your site that otherwise may not get indexed appropriately.

This leads to my final point. You could risk getting penalized as some may argue this is a form of cloaking. Anyway, thanks for sharing this. I adopted this function on part of my site--albeit somewhat modified.

Comment on PHP Image Replacement

2004-07-20T08:05:55+01:00

Comment by ivan ( ooooooo )

Hello!

First: Thanx for this very useful and interesting web-site!

About this article : maybe it'll be good sometimes to inclide some example to show how the function works in real situation. Ok i'm not so advanced in PHP so I need to see it - where and how it could be used and included - just to "see" it really. :)
Excuse me!
All the best!

Comment on PHP Image Replacement

2004-04-11T09:25:25+01:00

Comment by Uli Bildstein ( )

Firefox 0.8 with images turned off does work, sorry, I was wrong

Comment on PHP Image Replacement

2004-04-10T21:01:25+01:00

Comment by Uli Bildstein ( )

Hello Dave, all css-image-replacement techniques seemed to me not very sensible so far: css code is bloated and very complicated, there are still severe accessibility- and display-problems. Worst of all it was not possible to use these techniques in an elegant way in combination with dynamic sites, f. e. for to display images which are stored is a database. Your technique therefore is really great! Thank you very much. I just started checking it out: Bobby doesn't complain, Lynx displays text, IE 6 / Mozilla 1.4 / Opera 7.11 with images turned off display text. But Firefox 0.8 with images turned off shows nothing at all. Some research seems to be needed. Greetings, Uli Bildstein http://kammerkunst.de