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Anyone who knows anything about web accessibility knows that images need alternative, or ALT, text assigned to them. This is because screen readers can’t understand images, but rather read aloud the alternative text assigned to them. In Internet Explorer we can see this ALT text, simply by mousing over the image and looking at the yellow tooltip that appears. Other browsers (correctly) don’t do this. The HTML for inserting ALT text is:

img src=”filename.gif” alt=”Alternative description goes here”

DENIC, the registry of the German Top Level Domain (TLD) has announced, that it has received the eight millionth application for the registration of a de-domain. The de-domain has the position as the world’s favourite Country Code TLD, ahead of .uk, which has about 3.7 million registrations. The de-domains are also numerically stronger than nearly all the generic Top Level Domains that are used throughout the world, such as .org, .net, .info and .biz. Only one the com-domain with more than 30 million domains is more often registered than the de-domain.

October 2004

.de 7.981.014 (Increment compared to one month ago: 89.793)

Often time I’ve browsed sites and seen the same thing - general rep websites or free hosted sites. Pop ups irritate me from the free sites as does the blatant ads getting in the way of the text, and if you have seen one rep site you literally have seen them all. Boring, unoriginal, and unprofessional.

But after all they are free, and free is good right? Wrong - not when it comes to your image online.

Regardless of the business you are in, it’s important you have your own website. Meaning you have a unique domain name with purchased hosting. There are many benefits to owning your own website and I’ll explain why:

Typos, misspellings, hideous grammar, exclamation overkill and run-on sentences all undermine a Web site’s message. Your reader will have to work too hard, and you won’t have that reader long.

Grabbing a reader’s attention is a key point in getting your message out, but there is such a thing as too much grabbing–and the wrong kind of attention. Negative attention can lose a great many visitors and potential clients.