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womble -> RE: Alt tag/text (4/7/2007 15:14:19)
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It's often incorrectly called an Alt tag, but it's actually an alt attribute. The alt attribute goes in the HTML, so your image's HTML would look something like, <img src="myimage.jpg" height="100" width="100" alt="My image" />.
Search engines do use alt text to a certain extent, but not as much as they used to due to over-use of them and people stuffing keywords in them. The alt text should be meaningful, so for example if your image was of a vase of flowers, your alt text would be something like alt="vase of flowers", or if it's text as an image, it should be the text in the image, for example, alt="Welcome to our website". If an image is there for purely decorative purposes though, the alt attribute should be empty, e.g. alt=""
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