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[Althanis]

Hi there. I recently did this site: www.crystal-rain.com (redirects tobiasbuckell.com/crystalrain) but I have a problem. The first page, the splash/home page is really just a bunch of images, the only REAL text on it is the "Designed by..." part at the bottom.

Now if you go to google and search for crystal rain, you're going to get the page in the first couple reslults, but unforunately the little area that has the content from the site only has "Designed by...".

Is this a problem? I feel like I'm doing a disservice to my client by only having something about Tony Geer there and not the book, because I dont think anyone should really be interested too much about who designed it, I only want my name as a little subtext. The main info from a search should really be something about the book.

Does anyone know of a way I can change this? Thanks.

[Althanis]

Okay I've tried using the method described here:
http://phark.typepad...sible_imag.html

I've put the summary into a div and pushed it 9000 pixels away with a text indent. However I'm worried if this will produce negative results with search engines, does anyone have an idea if this is a bad/good/indifferent thing?

Edit 1:Well that didnt work, the text still shows up on the screen ;\

Edit 2: This was like having a conversation with myself, but just for reference I got what I wanted like this:

#frame {
width:780px;
margin-right:auto;
margin-left:auto;
margin-top:0px;
padding:0px;
text-align:center;
}

#content {
width:780px;
position: relative;
top: 0;
z-index: 10;
overflow:hidden;
}

#hiddentext{
width:200px;
position: absolute;
overflow:hidden;
top: 0;
z-index: 5;
}

I put the things I wanted below the table with all the images. But still, does anyone have a better idea on how to accomplish this?

Edited by Althanis, 11 October 2005 - 08:35 AM.

[rc69]

Well, i haven't clicked the link, but what you can try is removing the text (making it part of an image), and then adding a <meta content="description"> tag.
Shouldn't be to hard to find info about <meta> tags in google, so go there for more info on how to use it.

[Althanis]

Thanks rc69, I've tried what you said. Waiting now to see when google's crawler goes over the page again what will come out.

[Althanis]

Okay that suggestion worked perfectly rc, thanks a lot