alt text with mouse rollover on thumbnail image

[lowlands]

Hello guys,
this is my first post on the forums and I hope that I can draw on the wealth of the considerable knowledge base out there. This is my query:
I've recently set un an online e-commerce image library fotoquest.net which uses a pre-configured asset management software.
I want to create a mouse rollover on a thumbnail image that shows the embedded iptc data such as caption & keywords. At the moment the html script only allows a pre-defined static text which tells nothing about the image.
Can anybody recommend a script amendment to achieve this?
All help would be most appreciated. Thanks guys.
Lowlands
Doetinchem, Netherlands

[Spock]

Fairly professional looking site. I'm fairly new to HTML myself but hopefully one of the more experienced members will be along before too long to give you some ideas.

The only thing I can think of would be to manually add the proper information to the static text.

[Terminator1138]

first the right click is annoying as I right click in FF to open in new tabs...plus most can get around that...

As for the mouseover and the caption, I thought that was set already below the image so I'm not sure what you mean by not enough information? Is this already stored in the database? What database system are you using? However my suggestion is contact the company you bought the DAM software from, as your edits can get really tricky fast depending on if its JS or PHP controlling much of what you see for the image. I've never used this DAM before and without knowing all the files and such, its hard to say where you can do the work yourself.

Also as a hint, check your pricing, as many popular sites are way cheaper....

[lowlands]

Thanks guys,
The iptc info is in the database and embedded into each image.To manually add this to each tag is impossible as this is not an option in the config. One can only enter a pre-defined text which is the same for each image. You're right Terminator when you say that the info does appear under the preview photo but you get that only after clicking on the thumbnail and I want the the alt text to appear when rolling over the thumbnail. This, so I have been told would also enhance visibilty to search engines (?)
The DAM is imagefolio but the guys there are unhelpful to say the least.

[Terminator1138]

search spiders cannot hover over an thumbnail and get the info however they will find it on the main page of the image. Spiders need the text so if its in the webpage somewhere when the js file calls it from the db then it will be indexed. As long as each image can be spidered and there is text on that that give keywords etc, i think the hover aspect is just repeative tasks. Take a look at istockphoto and you will see what I mean. No hover for keywords.

If you still want to work this out, I'm afraid its quite an undertaking to figure out all that cgi, php and database information. You might break something in the code someplace else. I would consider paying a professional to do this and customize it some as you might be looking are more than a simple edit here and there.

Many out of the box solutions have real great help, insert sarcasm smile here (meaning many companies like that have poor help), I can understand that what you are going through. It makes it harder to tinker with a system that was created in parts by another company.

Best of luck, perhaps others here and help a bit more than I.