I’m planning my jewelry website and I’d like it to be mostly photography-based, with text on the images like on magazine spreads. The problem is that I need this text to be seo crawlable, so I can’t just Photoshop the text on the images if you see what I mean.
Therefore I was thinking of using the Revolution Slider as my main content display solution, each post being a slider with pictures scrolling horizontally and crawlable text on them.
Could anyone with real Revolution Slider experience tell me if it’s feasible or if that would make the site too slow?
Aah! So you think that I should photoshop the text on the images, and use html for the seo?
Longdesk uses off-page descriptions, could I use the same text as the one photoshopped and put it on an invisible page or something?
Also, I was hoping to have some sort of interactivity on the images, like if I roll over a hot zone, some text would appear saying “view this item”, like a tooltip if you would.
Any idea what I could use to properly implement that?
Well, I guess there are more than one or more ways to approach it. This recent discussion is somewhat similar (doesn’t involve a slider though and is for email)
If images fail to load for any reason, or are slow to load, you risk ending up with a blank or almost blank page, which is unlikely to impress.
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I was hoping to have some sort of interactivity on the images, like if I roll over a hot zone, some text would appear saying “view this item”, like a tooltip if you would.
[/quote]Just remember that touchscreen users and keyboarders can’t hover, so don’t rely on this method to convey any important information.
Also remember you need to provide adequate text descriptions for visually-impaired visitors. Don’t design for search engines and make your site unfriendly to people.
It’s difficult to make suggestions without knowing what the full content is, but a gallery page or pages, with thumbnail links to individual pages showing the large images and text seems like a good way to go.
Yes it’s going to be a shop, but I want it to look more like a photographer portfolio.
My idea was to have blog posts that would look like a magazine feature, with horizontal scrolling and text directly on the images.
I also wanted to allow users to be able to click on an item in those pictures and be sent to the item’s page (with the options and the add to cart button), but since I didn’t want to ruin the picture I was thinking of doing that with tool tips.
However, as you say without hover tooltips don’t make sense.
Even the text on image is going to be a headache because of touchscreen…