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User: Paul W. 12 years ago
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I saw that about a year ago there was an answer to this question to say it was planned. Seeing as in the Rage SEO Videos some emphasis is placed on using alt text with images it would seem to be a fairly important and basic feature. Is it still planned or do I have to buy the appropriate everweb widget set? -Paul- |
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User: Paul-RAGESW 12 years ago
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The next version of EverWeb supports alternative image text within the image gallery. We will be adding the ability to include alternative image text within any image places on a page. However that may be a little while off. I don't have an exact date so I do recommend purchasing roddy's excellent widgets for this right now. I will see what else we can provide for the time being. ------------------------------- Paul EverWeb Developer |
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User: Cornelis V. 12 years ago
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| Paul, do I sence some business interference in the way EverWeb is evolving into adulthood? How does your EverWeb business model work when Roddy is filling the gaps with his commercial involvement by developing step-out solutions that do not get integrated into EverWeb. It would be a shame to see that EverWeb is blocked to mature by Roddy's step-out tricknology. I would rather prefer to have a full fledged seaminess EverWeb experience! | |
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User: Jumbo T. 12 years ago
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The business model does not interfere with the EW development. It IS the business model. In close cooperation with Roddy, RageSW provides an expensive, poorly designed, 3rd rate application and Roddy provides the widgets (for a fee). From a knowledgable user's point of view all the extra widgets should be part of the application in the first place. But luckily the average EW user doesn't notice, because he is too ignorant to realise that. Instead he is grateful and happy, and thinks that Roddy is doing him a favor. To ease the pain, here's is my iteration of the movie widget. IT'S FREE! http://trotter.is-best.net/newvideo/ |
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User: Paul-RAGESW 12 years ago
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EverWeb obviously can't provide every feature so it has the ability for third parties to develop their own widgets. People spend a lot of time creating them and helping users and I'm sure there are a lot of users who are very thankful to Roddy and others that have gone out of their way to provide extra advice. The very small fee someone may want to charge for this, to me personally, is justified as it takes a lot of time to produce and support these widgets. Certain functionality like alternative image text is not being intentionally left out because there are third party widgets, we just have not gotten around to implementing it yet, but we will. For now, this is the current solution and since there is a solution, other requests take priority. Third party widgets won't prevent us from implementing a feature though if that's what you're asking. We just can't possibly implement every feature. And some that you make think are easy to implement, often are not. @Jumbo: I'm not sure where you get your information from but if you have constructive criticism with specific feature requests or bug reports, please post them here. But posting derogatory and seemingly authoritative comments is not helpful to the community, extremely rude, misleading and not encouraging. It's especially rude to users such as Roddy who don't deserve to be called out like this. I hope that your comment is out of passion for the software and not just to troll these forums. We all here would be incredibly appreciative of your specific feedback, and your free widgets. I hope in the future you can provide your view points while understanding that we are working hard to create a very valuable and useful product. I can appreciate that not everyone may feel this way but the best way to make the software better is with your specific suggestions. Not a vague and insulting post. If you don't want to provide specific suggestions or why you feel the software is poorly designed that is your choice. But, calling out specific EverWeb users will not be tolerated here. Again, we do appreciate you participating here. But please let's all be civil to each other. Feel free to email me privately if you like. Last edit 12 years ago ------------------------------- Paul EverWeb Developer |
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User: Yelena 12 years ago
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Quote: @Jumbo: I'm not sure where you get your information from but if you have constructive criticism with specific feature requests or big reports, please post them here. But posting derogatory and seemingly authoritative comments is not helpful to the community, extremely rude, misleading and not encouraging. I hope that your comment is out of passion for the software and not just to troll these forums. We all here would be incredibly appreciative of your specific feedback, and your free widgets. I hope in the future you can provide your view points while understanding that we are working hard to create a very valuable and useful product. I can appreciate that not everyone may feel this way but the best way to make the software better is with your specific suggestions. Not a vague and insulting post Very much agree with you Paul! Most of us are not "ignorant" but are amateurs, not professional web designers so EW is a fantastic tool. Quote: From a knowledgable user's point of view Why would a knowledgable person use this kind of software? It is a free choice as far as I know...:)
------------------------------- Yelena MacBook Pro OS X 10.10.3 IMac 21" OS X 10.10.3 |
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User: wellnl 12 years ago
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| I totally agree with Paul and Yelena here... EverWeb has taken over the mantle from iWeb and has done a great job so far. it's been available for less than a year and has come a long way already. There will always be features that seem easy to implement but are not. There are also things like PayPal support which has come to the product that help those who use their website for commercial purposes. If it was easy to add this feature then I am sure Paul and Co would want it in EW asap.Yes, Roddy 'fills the gaps'. This was also true of many people who used third party iWeb add-ons for things that iWeb did not have. It's common practice and almost expected. So, Jumbo, please respect these people and team RageSW. We have direct input to the product development, we get beta product and a great user community too! Did you get that with iWeb? Respect to Paul, Roddy and our EW community! | |
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User: Paul W. 12 years ago
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Well I am a professional web- and system designer and I definitely believe EverWeb is a great tool. I didn't realize that my question might cause such a fuss. Although I have written over 400 0000 lines of html and cgi-code over last 12 years I have really started to appreciate just how powerful EverWeb is particularly when you are in a hurry and you don't need cgi-interaction with the server. I will get the widget which can process the alt text. It is - as Paul said - no great expense. Thanks -Paul- |
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User: Steve 12 years ago
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EW is fine... The widgets that Roddy provides are a great addition to EW and may inspire other programmers to come up with new ones! After jumbo got done (spewing crap) on a forum that is frequented by people that use and like EW... Then he touts his own widget! WTH? Oh yeah we'll go download your widget right away! ...not. S ------------------------------- MacBook Pro 15in Retina 10.14.6 Nevada, U.S.A Apple since OS 7.1 LE II (pizza box) |
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User: Peter B. 12 years ago
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Although I cannot fully subscribe to the rants from jumbo T., I do feel that he has a point in the fact that some shortcomings are solved by the fee-charging website from Roddy. I feel some widgets have serious shortcomings. Until things are fixed, some widgets should be free indeed. I am not trying to deprive Roddy from some income, but if Roddy apparently can spit them out faster then rage can, perhaps Roddy should ( if he isn't yet ) be in on the development and focus on Widgets so Rage can work on the program itself ? |
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User: Paul-RAGESW 12 years ago
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Quote: I feel some widgets have serious shortcomings. Until things are fixed, some widgets should be free indeed. Thank you for your feedback. But please understand that we cannot possibly cover all the options users may want to make to create a their own unique website. In addition, adding too many options causes widgets to become overly complex and intimidating to users. Every user will disagree on what is essential or needed to built into EverWeb. I don't think there is a problem with spending $6 on a pack of widgets and also getting customized support from third parties. I think it is great that there can be an incentive to create customize widgets for unique features users may desire at a very low cost. With that in mind, everyone is free to add whatever feature they want at no cost with HTML Snippet. But I think the cost of a coffee or two is worth buying a pre-made widget. Widgets offered by third parties won't affect what we are or are not going to add to EverWeb in the future. A more effective way of getting widgets built into EverWeb is getting enough people to let us know what is important to them so we can add those features. An example is image captions which is coming in the next update (version 1.4). Quote: Until things are fixed, some widgets should be free indeed Saying "until things are fixed" is way to generic for us to understand what is important to you. Required features will be different to each individual user. My suggestion is to start new topics with features you want and allow others to join the conversation as well so we can prioritize features properly. ------------------------------- Paul EverWeb Developer |
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