Abhishek Reddy — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 14:29:36 +0000

Edit: nevermind. See Megan's post in the thread Busy linked.

timjpriebe — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 12:37:03 +0000

Daveyboy's hit the nail on the head. Plus, if they have style sheets turned off for some reason, the page title is still right where I had the image for the page title.

My understanding is that this is a very common thing for CSS layouts.

DaveyBoy — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 11:48:35 +0000

I'm assuming that they wanted to have an anti-aliased look to the text but have it inside the heading tags too.

The Webmistress — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 09:35:12 +0000

Why would you want to? H1 is for text, the main heading of your page - images should be for your logo etc.

steve40 — Wed, 31 May 2006 18:38:31 +0000

Here is the way WDG says to handle a img header, Just like I said.

timjpriebe — Wed, 31 May 2006 17:55:44 +0000

I do this all the time. For an example, check out this site:

http://www.churchesofchristonline.com/

Here is the pertinent HTML:

<div id="pageHeader">
<h1><span>Churches of Christ Online.com </span></h1>
<h2><span>Getting Church of Christ Organizations onto the Web </span></h2>
</div>

And the corresponding CSS:

#pageHeader
{
	background:  url(images/header.jpg) no-repeat top left;
	background-color: #666699;
	width: 100%;
	height: 100px;
	float: left;
	padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
	margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
}

#pageHeader span
{
	display: none;
}

Busy — Tue, 30 May 2006 20:42:09 +0000

here is a thread about using the tag with a CSS image viewable (with code) http://www.webmaster-forums.net/showthread.php?t=33417

steve40 — Tue, 30 May 2006 19:01:02 +0000

You can use an image, I don't. The only way is to fill out the "alt" tag with your web-site name. Most search engines will read this, including Google.

But it is best not to use an image, unless it is just a background.

PS# Google reads the alt tag, as an alt text not a page header. It is best to make your header, a header not an image.
If you want an image in the header use a smaller logo to the right, or left of the header text.

Megan — Tue, 30 May 2006 12:49:05 +0000

Some people use an image replacement technique where the content within the tags is text but the CSS is set to display: none and add an image background.... it's something like that anyway. Do a search for "CSS image replacement"

DaveyBoy — Tue, 30 May 2006 10:16:04 +0000

Isn't the whole point of the header tag so that the search engine can read the words that are placed between them? So if it's an imagine i don't think you're really benefitting from it.