Hi DMXZone,

I've just created a new site for my web design co... (www.entity7.com) and I would like to be able to do the following:

When a user visits my site the first thing that happens is the background image loads (bg.gif - this is just plain old black). Once this has loaded the rest of the page can load.

I'd like to be able to type black text onto the page for search engine purposes but when the page loads the text loads before the black bg causing my visitors to see the text...

Any ideas?

Thanks
Richard Georgiou

rgeorgiou...
tut tut!

Trying to trick the search engines is not a good idea. Many of them are now wise to tricks like these and will penalise you for trying underhand tactics such as these.

you can have headers in the page without people seeing them to arm the search engine will valuable information, and this isnt tricking them.

declare a H1 style in css and give it a px value of 1 and a margin-left of -9000

make sure you only use this one instance of the H1 for obvious reasons, but it will allow you to give info to the engine without being penalised for it. make your text white and its legal <img src=../images/dmxzone/forum/icon_smile.gif border=0 align=middle>

also, how big is your bkgrd image? make it a 2x2 black cell define a body tag in css and se it as your background image with a repeat and it should load before anything else if its at the top of your stylesheet

Regards,
Dave

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Edited by - UltraDav on 18 Jun 2004 16:28:34

If the goal is SEO then I would advocate the standard techniques for improving your ranking; build your links, xhtml and css etc

The type of approach that uses 'dishonesty' causes 'problems' for people using non-graphical browsers (in the UK the law is changing and sites MUST be accessible from October 2004). If you design with accessibility in mind your search engine ratings will be enhanced as a 'byproduct'

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Edited by - ganseki on 18 Jun 2004 16:38:04

Point taken... I'm going to add some more text to the pages in a way what is stylish and fits with the style of the site...

Thanks for the info all..

Ta
R