Help us raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support

OK a slightly out of context post today but one for a very valid and worthwhile cause so if you don't like it - tough! :-)

Jon (the founder of Code Required) and a friend Pat Fahy (of Sonaa fame) are doing a parachute jump from 12,000ft in an attempt to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support a charity very close to both of our hearts and I'm sure many of you reading this if you have ever experienced the devastating effects that cancer can cause not only to the sufferer but to the friends and family as well.

Therefore it'd be great if you could sponsor us (even just a few pence will make a difference) at http://www.justgiving.com/patandjon

Thanks so much for your support!

Semantic content: images with alt attributes vs plain text? Part 2

OK so interesting results from our little test case... Although it looks like Google is certainly acting as expected for natural rankings with the way we markup content we've had some interesting results from the other guys at Yahoo & Altavista where it looks as though our mate Roger (un-sematic plain text content) is certainly leading the way!!

Page name	Position
	Google	Yahoo	Altavista	Ask	Live/MSN
Frank (H1: image with alt and title)	3	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Fred (H1: as plain text)	1	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Roger (P: as plain text)	2	2	2	n/a	n/a

I must say - I'm a bit concerned by these results as it certainly doesn't bode well for the way we've been told we "should" code so often!

Watch this space for further updates!! Feel free to drop Jon an email if you want to see more comparisons.

You can see the pages at:
http://www.mycardioworld.com/tests/frank.html
(header as image with alt and title attributes)

http://www.mycardioworld.com/tests/fred.html
(everything as plain text)

and...
http://www.mycardioworld.com/tests/roger.html
("un-semantic" plain text)