I made the rounds of a few different techniques over the years for replacing H1 text with an image until I realized that the most reliable, most semantic, most indexable, most manageable solution was also the simplest:
<h1><img src="/img/title.png" alt="Title of my page"/></h1> Google loves alt text. No extra classes to identify which background should be utilized (which always results in lazy management down the line and things not matching. The worst is when the image being called in differs from the actual text which may, in turn, differ from the class. A mess. Just use an image I say. I remember a Google Webmaster Help video where Matt Cutts said the same thing but can't find it right now. Tim On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Kevin A. Cameron <kevinacame...@gmail.com>wrote: > I'm guessing this is referring to replacing text with a (background) > image..? > > Kevin > > > On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 9:20 AM, Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) < > p.tay...@rhul.ac.uk> wrote: > > > > > > > Scott Hamm wrote: > > > > > I've been looking all over websites -- a lot of good h1 replacement > > > suggestions. But which one is more practical, validated in all aspects > > i.e. > > > bobby approved, html5, etc? > > > > <H1> is HTML, not CSS, but that said, why might anyone want to replace it > ? > > > > Philip Taylor > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] > > http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d > > List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ > > List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html > > Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] > http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d > List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ > List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html > Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ > -- tim.arn...@gmail.com ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
