I really appreciate your offer to help me. With the kind help from this forum I may have figured out how to get the alt attributes in ... it's a bit cumbersome since I have so many but it is doable.
I found a file in the gallery directory called index.php. I found a setting in there:
$text_display = "caption";
/*
Options are "alt", "filename", "caption", and "none" to determine what text displays underneath the
thumbnail image. If set to "caption," the text will be taken from the file "captions.txt" in
the image directory. That file should have one caption per line, with each line formatted
as filename|caption, as follows:
I changed the value from "caption" to "alt".
There is another file called captions.txt. which had a sample in it. The format is:
filename|alt text goes here.
It seems to work because now when I run the mouse over the image I see what I put in the captions.txt file.
The Big Question I have is: Will the search engines see these alt atributes if they are in a php gallery? The reason I ask is because when I run those free
SEO tools and the results come up the number of images found is WAY less than the number I have.
Next project is to find out why my formatting is weird in Chrome but ok in Mozilla and Explorer.
Thanks for the help.