Making header clickable and show a mouse pointer

  • I followed the instructions in the codex to make the header graphic clickable without the h1 site title and text description.

    But when I put the mouse pointer on the header, though it is a link, it does not show the standard mousepointer hand that indicates a link. How can i make it do this without using that onclick code?

    Can I adjust a setting some where or can I just make my own link using html like
    a href =https://www.name.com img src=images/image.jpg

    Thanks!!

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  • Thread Starter teeny

    (@teeny)

    cant you tell me without that? Isnt there any standard way besides the onclick method?

    Thread Starter teeny

    (@teeny)

    I’m mainly concerned from a search engine optimization perspective – I want the se spider to be able to see and follow the link back to home from internal pages via the header

    What do you mean with ??broken link??? An image that can’t be found? Actually it’s really hard to be guessing without seeing the thing. Maybe to make up for that you could be a bit more specific and detailed?

    Thread Starter teeny

    (@teeny)

    Hi. Thank you. The broken link happened because I didn’t link the path of the image correctly.

    Ok. I’m trying to avoid using the onclick solution because I’m not sure if the search spider can read it.

    So, I’m using the first suggestion in the codex. I’ve uploaded a new image and placed it in the directory where the kubrick jpg is. I’ve made the change in the header here:
    directory’); ?>/ images/kubrickheader.jpg”)

    and put my image name where kubrickheader is

    I’ve gotten rid of the h1 and the description tags. I’m just wanting to link the header to the absolute url. So I’m using this code:

    < div id=”header”> < a href=”<?php echo get_settings(‘home’); ?>”> < div id=”headerimg”>< /div> < /a> < /div>

    when I do this however, I can see the header is hotlinked via the browser however the mouse pointer doesnt activate into a pointer over the image.

    I would like that to happen so I’m trying to find a way. I’ve tried “hard coding it” but I’m not sure exactly how to put the code.

    Thread Starter teeny

    (@teeny)

    can I hard code it?

    I just want the SE to be able to follow the link and for it to appear as a link

    Thread Starter teeny

    (@teeny)

    actually, the onlick code does seem to be spiderable – I tried an emulator on it and it picked it up from an internal page so I’m gonna try it out

    Thread Starter teeny

    (@teeny)

    well it definitely works but the search engine cannot spider it it seems, I just tested it on an internal page on my site that has no other “home” links on it

    that is not good

    is there another way? this blog is unbelievably frustrating – the most simple things require hacks and this and that

    Thread Starter teeny

    (@teeny)

    actually I am gonna try different software

    thanks for your help guys

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