Wanted: SEO suggestions

[Starhunter]

The methods will help a lot, although I came across a few issues: The menu bar items would need to be ungrouped first I assume. I also noticed that the predesigned text boxes, with text in the headings, would also have to be ungrouped. So it would seem that on a multitude of pages that had different text box headings, they'd each have to be done individually. With all the graphic tools available, it could be hard to know which text items were changed so they would be converted to a graphic. It just occurred to me that I'm not even sure if any of the unique fonts will automatically become a graphic, making it more cumbersome to be more creative.

I noticed that on the Web Properties>>Image[tab] there's also an option for setting the "Web Image Type", including "Let Xara choose automatically." Wouldn't it be handy to have another option included, like "Add same text to Title" and "Add same text to Alt" so it happens automatically? I've been discovering that Google gives less value to keyword meta tags than to naturally occurring keywords in the page. That's how I found out that many of my great keywords I used throughout pages did not show up anywhere in the source code - hence they were invisible.

[steve.ledger]

It doesn't matter how many graphic layers your button has - it is exported as ONE image. Construction layers are only for the design stage.
If your text is grouped with the image it will always be included with the button graphic.
Button graphics and all images which have rounded corners, transparency effects etc are automatically exported as PNG type unless you tell xara otherwise.
Only photos are exported as JPG *unless* you add effects or rounded corners, then they will be exported as PNG to maintain WYSIWYG.

Any non-web safe font is automatically converted to an image is you GROUP the text to itself.

Try not to over-think this. Xara has done most of the hard work for you, they created Web Designer to be simple and easy to use for everybody.

[jamesd]

The alt="" attribute is for entering a description of the object when a browser doesn't show the actual image.
Example: alt="logo image"

I was referring to text based images created in WD, that it would be handy if the text in the image would be placed automatically into Web properties>> Image caption(alt text) up to the limit of course.

If you want a better description for SEO (and for a popup label in browsers) use the title="" attribute
Example: title="TalkGraphics.com is a place for like-minded individuals to chat about graphics software, website design and more"

You wouldn't want to have title labels appearing when you hover over text.

[steve.ledger]

You wouldn't want to have title labels appearing when you hover over text.

Why not?

[jamesd]

Some people use the cursor to follow where they are reading when there is a lot of text, the label would get in the way.

[jamesd]

I am referring to text based images only

[Starhunter]

I think another useful SEO feature would be to allow the original image name to stay the same instead of being changed to a number. I believe Google's image search uses both the alt tag and the image name itself, so having both with a keyword could give it a nice boost for searchers.