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I have a question about CSS, in particulair the Fahrner Image Replacement Technique (FIR), and Search Engines.
My question is, is this a legal technique? Because it looks like you could spam with this technique by putting more words in a <span> to hide. Do you get a penalty for this for your page ranking, or something? Does anyone has articles about this, or does anybody know more about this issue? (i've search google but couldn't find a lot, perhaps you did find something.)
Here you can read what the FIR technique is (if you don't know it: http://www.stopdesig...s/replace_text/ )
In short it is about this:
You want to have a nice font on your website, but not many computers have that font installed on their computer. This technique let's you have that nice font for everybody to see.
In the HTML source you put something like this:
<div>
<span>Hello world!</span>
</div>
And in CSS this
div {
background-image:url("hello_world.gif");
background-repeat:no-repeat;
height:35px;
}
span {display:none;}
This will put a picture with your font in the div, and the display: none hides the tekst. If you look at the page with CSS turned on you'll see the picture, and with CSS turned off you'll see: Hello World!
(You see that with this you could spam a lot by putting more text in the HTML soure between the <span> tags).
Hope someone can help me, thanx.
Knordy...
Edited by Knordy, 06 October 2005 - 09:49 AM.
