Kulture,
if you edit the template to add an alt tag you would have the same alt tag for every image because the pages are built dynamically with php pulling the data from MySQL, they are not static html pages. Like in the template product_details.tpl the image tag is:
[img]{product.imageURL}[/img]
If you added the alt tag: "Computer" to this line then every product would have the alt tag "Computer"... it wont work right.
I am suggesting that a table be added to MySQL, a varcharacter type table that is associated with the product ID number that would be polled and added to the results page the same way other info is grabbed. Then in the admin panel by the add image feature it would have a text box to enter the alt tag text. The table would be small and I dont believe it would be a resource problem for such a small addition that has such a great benefit. Alot of php programs use this.
Regarding the template fixes in beta 2.2:
Can you be more specific as to what has been fixed? In LC v2.1 there are no keywords associated with the main.tpl file which is the start page. There is a tag:
<META if="keywords" name="keywords" content="{keywords:r}"/>
But it doesnt produce any keyword results, and I cant find in the admin panel anywhere a place to enter keywords for the start page.
Also there is no way through the admin panel to change the meta description tag for the store- This has to be done through manually editing the template. So everyone who doesnt know how to edit the template in the search engines their stores description says:
"The powerful shopping cart software for web stores and e-commerce enabled stores is based on PHP / PHP4 with SQL database with highly configurable implementation based on templates."
Thanks for the input kulture but it wasnt a question of - can the template be edited. It was a suggestion for an adim panel feature.
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