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Hello all.
I've been using a simple weebly template to put togther some ideas during lock down and it's looking great on Mac regardless of which browser I'm using. The challenge comes when I view it on a PC.
Everything works but the transparent text .png graphics I've added over the video section looks grim. Infact the entire section/video/graphic looks a little dodgy. I'm wondering if that because im viewing in on really cheapo Lenovo Think pad. As mentioned, all works wonderfully on a mac.
Great if you could take a look and give me some feedback.
Appriciated it, David
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@davidbathe First, that's a very pretty website. Second, your videos look fine on my PC (also a Lenovo but not a cheapo one). I looked at one of your png image files and it looks fine (and that's very creative approach to overlaying a semi-transparent caption on a section video). I'd encourage you to add the alt description to the image (click the image element, select the "Advanced" attributes and change the default image alt description from "Picture" to the actual image title text - you should do this for all images across the site). Also, I'd change "World Projects" to mixed case rather than upper case.
Perhaps you can take a screenshot on your janky Lenovo and let us see what you're seeing. (I'm presuming all your browsers are up to date on the Lenovo.)
There is an alternative approach to adding images to a page where you use a code reference to the uploaded image and, with a little css, you can modify the transparency of the image caption via the opacity setting. In this web page https://www.b2bistro.com/red-bank.html, in the left-hand sidebar, the title text, "Red Bank" (which, in this case, is actual title text not an image) is solid white but the opacity is set to less than 100% in the css. Your image-based approach to the caption is great in this case because the lettering is very large and the caption image will behave responsively with the video upon which it rests (harder to do with actual text). If you employ the caption image via a coded reference approach rather than using the Weebly image element, you can manipulate the opacity directly on the site via the css opacity setting (so one change in the css code for the caption images will change the opacity of all of the captions across the site). Much quicker, easier, and more dynamic than fiddling with opacity in your graphics program.
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@davidbathe First, that's a very pretty website. Second, your videos look fine on my PC (also a Lenovo but not a cheapo one). I looked at one of your png image files and it looks fine (and that's very creative approach to overlaying a semi-transparent caption on a section video). I'd encourage you to add the alt description to the image (click the image element, select the "Advanced" attributes and change the default image alt description from "Picture" to the actual image title text - you should do this for all images across the site). Also, I'd change "World Projects" to mixed case rather than upper case.
Perhaps you can take a screenshot on your janky Lenovo and let us see what you're seeing. (I'm presuming all your browsers are up to date on the Lenovo.)
There is an alternative approach to adding images to a page where you use a code reference to the uploaded image and, with a little css, you can modify the transparency of the image caption via the opacity setting. In this web page https://www.b2bistro.com/red-bank.html, in the left-hand sidebar, the title text, "Red Bank" (which, in this case, is actual title text not an image) is solid white but the opacity is set to less than 100% in the css. Your image-based approach to the caption is great in this case because the lettering is very large and the caption image will behave responsively with the video upon which it rests (harder to do with actual text). If you employ the caption image via a coded reference approach rather than using the Weebly image element, you can manipulate the opacity directly on the site via the css opacity setting (so one change in the css code for the caption images will change the opacity of all of the captions across the site). Much quicker, easier, and more dynamic than fiddling with opacity in your graphics program.
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Wow Paul, that was a nice reply and great to hear (and see) things are looking good at your end.
Here, the .pngs look grey, not transparent and feature a stroke around the letters!
The odd this is that now I've taken a screen shot... they look perfect on the image... but not on the screen.
What I've had to do is take a picture with my phone so you can see the problem:
Me and coding aren't the best of friends. I can modify simple stuff but can write and add it.
The png approach is SUPER AMATEUR... but works real nice, scales with the responsive and holds it'shape!
I've been chuffed with the solution until I saw it on my daughters cheap PC from school.
Then I had nightmares.
I'm wondering if theres actually something wrong with her screen.
Thanx with the picture title tip, I'll do that.
Also the capitalized WORLD PROJECTS. unberlievable how you go blind to these obvious errors.
Again,really appriciate the feed back Paul.
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@davidbathe Hmmm. Interesting that the problem doesn't manifest when you screenshot it. That tells you that what you're seeing on the screen is not the same as what's actually on the screen. (I'm thinking of the Marx brother's quote: "Who are you going to believe, me or your own lyin' eyes?") I've looked at the home page on Chrome, Firefox, and Edge on my PC and also checked it on Chrome on Android. Looks fine on all those browsers. I even dug up Internet Explorer from its grave and that works too. Your png caption images look fine (they are properly composed transparent background png images). Your daughter's PC appears to have the ability to render things that aren't actually there. There may be some setting that allows for this to happen on the PC monitor but I can't say I have any idea of what that might be. Probably time to get your daughter a new PC 😉
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Just one last question, you mentioned about adding an " alt description to the image" advance setting etc.
I have know problems finding and doing that but (stupid warning) why? I was kinda surprized the picture didn't have the name I saved it as. It does if you drag it off the site onto you desktop for example but not in the settings. Whats the deal?
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@davidbathe The reason you use the alt text in webpage images is primarily to provide a (written) description of the image to people or devices (screen readers for the sight-impaired, search engine bots) that can't actually see the image. You can bet that 99% of Weebly users don't employ alt text in their images so every single (foreground) image on their sites will have the default alt text of "Picture." You want to follow best web coding practices and that means taking the time to add the alt text description of your images. For your video overlay images, this is particularly important as what you're doing there is using an image to express an actual text caption. You and I can clearly see the images of the caption text and we interpret all of those images as text even though they actually are not text. A screen reader, on the other hand, will transcribe to voice the written material on the screen. So your caption would be read out loud as "Picture" instead of the text expressed in the image. Same thing applies when the bots come to index your page content for the search engines. Always follow best practices (unless you want to be like your daughter's computer screen and ignore reality 😜 )
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Dude... Blown away!
I have come across exactly what you're saying when I've try to grap and paste some text from a site into a presentation. It also grabs the images but when you paste in in, it just says "picture"! I've never understood why.
Awsome. Guess I know what Im doing tomorrow.