On my images I have a mouse over to produce a second. When I type in a alt tag for the target image ... nada. Any ideas?

What went nada - the mouse over effect or the alt tag? Can you post a link to your page?

What browser are you using? I have found Firefox to be more picky about these things than IE8. A possible solution might be to include the alt tag in the the Code field of a link.

And can you post a link to a test page?

Larryd Thanks for helping. Sorry for not being clear, I entered a title using the quick properties editor on the thumbnail image that also when I mouse over triggers a larger image to be shown. The title doesn't show up when I mouse over
Bruceee Thanks for helping. I am using Firefox where its not working, when I checked it out in IE everthing is great. I put the same words in the code field and it doesn't seem to help. What do you think? http://phantomoutoftheshadows....most/thejourney.html (for right now just the top picture with the two ladies standing)

Hmmm, the mystery deepens. Your page has a number of alt attributes and none of them display for me in Firefox.

I tried a local copy of your page without images expecting the alt attributes to be displayed, but Firefox doesn't display the alt even in that state. I thought "alt" is short for alternate, meaning the alternate text will be displayed instead of the image. But not happening here.

I manually added a title="Paris Opera House" to the page code for the small image and that works in Firefox -- the title displays on mouseover. But SiteSpinner won't add that code if I try to enter it via the code field of the link.

I'm finding this alt vs title business highly confusing, not that it was ever crystal clear before....

When you add a text to a Title field in SS, it is always converted to an 'alt' attibute. Alt attributes are supposed to be used as placeholders for an image when the image fails to load (i.e., missing). The 'title' attribute is supposed to be used as a 'tool-tip' for a link.

If Firefox, the title attribute text is displayed only when the attribute is assigned to a link no matter if it is text or an image. SiteSpinner will not convert the entered Title text as a title attribute unless the object is a link. But it will always be turned into an alt attribute. Links will have both alt and title attributes.

So alt text will always appear in IE but not FF. And a title will always be shown in both browsers, but will not become a title attribute unless the object is turned into a link.

If you have SS Pro, you can add a title attribute to an image via the Geometry->Options->Code field without making the image a link and FF will use it.