Revolution Theme Optimisation: Image Alt

I’m a big fan of Brian Gardner’s Revolution theme for wordpress – we use it here of course. Since purchasing the original theme, Brian has added a few variants to the Revolution portfolio, so do take a look at them all. I love these premium, magazine style wordpress themes – South Africa based Adii Pienaar offers his premium news theme which looks rather smart too.

I thought I’d post about any little tweaks that I make to my installed Revolution theme and hopefully others can add theirs in my comments or via email. I’m no wordpress expert though (unfortunately) so I’m not offering my services as a wordpress support line!

Today I’d like to mention the image alt descriptions. By default the Revolution theme seems to use your blog title for the image alts for the home page images hp-main, hp-1, hp-2 and hp-3 and could therefore do with a little optimisation. Within the file home.php search for the references to those images and edit the alt=”<your image text here>” and then test.

I’m currently using the firefox toolbar plugin webdeveloper and it was that that highlighted the image alts.