Adding ALT tags to row/column background

[lmarshall]

I am creating a web site that uses a lot of images as the background for columns and rows in a table. I've been told that by having them as a background instead of an actual image they load faster. I'm working on promoting my site and would like to use my keywords as much as possible because I don't have very much content on the hompage. Is there any way I can create ALT tags in the <TD> tags to add description of my background images?

 

[MrBelfry]

I don't think there is anyway of adding alt tags to background images but you can use the title tag like this
<td title=&quot;Some text here&quot;> and this text will display when the person rests the cursor over that table cell.

I'm not sure how this effects search engine rankings.

MrBelfry

MrBelfry

 

[lmarshall]

Thanks!!!!!

 

[NigeW]

Another alternative is to create a 1x1 transparent gif. Then do something like

<td><img src=&quot;images/1x1transparent.gif&quot; width=&quot;100%&quot; height=&quot;100%&quot; alt=&quot;Keywords go here&quot;></td>

I am not sure how 'bots treat this as it is a transparent image and may consider it spam (like white text on white background) but it works !

The only problem is if you have content within the td tags

Cheers from down under

Nige