Dick:
If you read my posts, you'll see that I am extremely busy not only with
my own business schedule and regular life but I also spend a great deal of
time helping a lot of people on here and at other sites as much as I can.
I cannot guarantee a lot of free time but if you ask me, I'll take a look
at your server when I can and help you insert your ALT tags without the
$500 that your provider is asking you (that's ridiculous incidentally!)
Alt tags (alternate text descriptions) are very easy to add as far as
basic HTML is concerned and only a little more complex when dealing
with dynamic content but the underlying output generation is basically
the same as regular static pages and goes something like this:
Original Image:
Code:
<img src="/path/image.jpg" width="xxx" height="yyy">
ALT Added Image:
Code:
<img src="/path/image.jpg" width="xxx" height="yyy" alt="My Image Text">
As someone pointed out here, they already added "ALT" images to your
image files, just filled in the "alt=" tags with the filenames instead of
a more descriptive message. That would suggest that you can indeed
add ALT tags to your images.
Call it more a case of laziness not wanting to synchronize which picture
goes with which ALT tag or just greed wanting more money than reasonable
for what is not really that difficult of a task but either way, your provider
is asking too high a price tag to insert those for you.
Most image gallery scripts actually have built in support for ALT tags
and though I didn't see what you were using underlying with the sample
URL you provided, your comments suggest you may be using one of the
standard image gallery programs as PHP Gallery, PHP Album, 4 Images, and
Coppermine are all photo gallery programs written in PHP and all of those
have ALT tag descriptions control built right into the menu interface
to make managing ALT tags ridiculously easy plus all of these programs
are open source or similar and are free programs and don't cost anything
to install, setup, or operate. In fact all of these can be installed fully
automatically from a popular 3rd party Cpanel extension called Fantastico
and some of these can also be installed automatically directly from
Cpanel alone without the need for any additional program. All of these
can also be downloaded and installed manually as well and are very
easy to install so if your provider charged you heavily to install your
image gallery, you have definitely been taken for a ride.