Posted 4 years ago #
I followed the instructions in the codex to make the header graphic clickable without the h1 site title and text description.
But when I put the mouse pointer on the header, though it is a link, it does not show the standard mousepointer hand that indicates a link. How can i make it do this without using that onclick code?
Can I adjust a setting some where or can I just make my own link using html like
a href =http://www.name.com img src=images/image.jpg
Thanks!!
i use this and it shows the hand when you hover over the header
<div id="masthead"onclick="location.href='<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>';" style="cursor: pointer;"title="Professional Traveler">
Posted 4 years ago #
double post
in your case change it to
<div id="header"onclick="location.href='<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>';" style="cursor: pointer;"title="your site name">
Posted 4 years ago #
isnt that going to hide the url from the search engines, i want it spidered
is there another way for such a basic thing?
Posted 4 years ago #
can the headerimg settings be altered somehow so it shows the mousehand?
i don't think so, but i could be wrong
Posted 4 years ago #
this is the code I'm using btw with spaces so it shows:
< div id="header" > < a href="<?php echo get_settings('home'); ?>"> < div id="headerimg" >< /div>
< /a>
mine shows a hand :)
style="cursor: pointer;"
Posted 4 years ago #
not helpful but thanks anyway
Posted 4 years ago #
anyone else know another way to do it?
Where is your site ?
Posted 4 years ago #
ok i got it
< div id="header" >< a href=your site url >< img src=your header img alt=header />< /a>< /div>
works perfectly
thanks guys, sorry if I was impatient
Posted 4 years ago #
actually thats giving me problems - doesn't that call the image twice?
I was confused - it's showing the image and a broken link
i give up
A link to your site would help us to help you.
Posted 4 years ago #
cant you tell me without that? Isnt there any standard way besides the onclick method?
Posted 4 years ago #
I'm mainly concerned from a search engine optimization perspective - I want the se spider to be able to see and follow the link back to home from internal pages via the header
Posted 4 years ago #
What do you mean with »broken link«? An image that can't be found? Actually it's really hard to be guessing without seeing the thing. Maybe to make up for that you could be a bit more specific and detailed?
Posted 4 years ago #
Hi. Thank you. The broken link happened because I didn't link the path of the image correctly.
Ok. I'm trying to avoid using the onclick solution because I'm not sure if the search spider can read it.
So, I'm using the first suggestion in the codex. I've uploaded a new image and placed it in the directory where the kubrick jpg is. I've made the change in the header here:
directory'); ?>/ images/kubrickheader.jpg")
and put my image name where kubrickheader is
I've gotten rid of the h1 and the description tags. I'm just wanting to link the header to the absolute url. So I'm using this code:
< div id="header"> < a href="<?php echo get_settings('home'); ?>"> < div id="headerimg">< /div> < /a> < /div>
when I do this however, I can see the header is hotlinked via the browser however the mouse pointer doesnt activate into a pointer over the image.
I would like that to happen so I'm trying to find a way. I've tried "hard coding it" but I'm not sure exactly how to put the code.
Posted 4 years ago #
can I hard code it?
I just want the SE to be able to follow the link and for it to appear as a link
Posted 4 years ago #
actually, the onlick code does seem to be spiderable - I tried an emulator on it and it picked it up from an internal page so I'm gonna try it out
Posted 4 years ago #
well it definitely works but the search engine cannot spider it it seems, I just tested it on an internal page on my site that has no other "home" links on it
that is not good
is there another way? this blog is unbelievably frustrating - the most simple things require hacks and this and that
Posted 4 years ago #
actually I am gonna try different software
thanks for your help guys
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