Help needed for site containing mainly images

Hello,
I launched my site (www.ninadesign.biz) a couple of days ago and I am quite clueless what I need to do, to make it search engine friendly.
From what I read so far it is important
-to have other sites linking to my site
-to enter a lot of alt tags (which I don't want to, because they destroy the design)
-to put in meta tags with keywords etc. (I did that, also the index/follow thingy)
is that correct?
Here are my questions:
Do I have to enter meta tags on every page in my site or just index.html?
What does <meta name="revisit-after"content="7 days"> mean?
Does it make a difference whether I name my images after my keywords or not?
How can I get more "text" in my site without using alt tags?
I used the metatag anlyzer tool (http://www.widexl.com/remote/search-engines/metatag-analyzer.html). Can somebody explain me how I can increase the description relevancy and the keyword relevancy?

Thank you for reading this and thank you even more if you can help me! I really appreciate it.

It is important to have other sites linking to your site
It isnt that importatn to have meta tags, they help but only very little

Its a good idea to have meta tags on every page of your site changing them slightly to be more relavent to the page

revisit meta tag means dont send whatever spider has just visiited for another 7 days (good if you dont update your site daily as it uses up bandwidth

it always helps if you give your images relavent names

i dont understand how alt tags change te layout of your page, are you using them correctly?
<img src="image.jpg" alt="my image"> should be how you use it and that remains hidden unless the user puts their curser over the image

also try title in the image source, this means you can add more key words eg: <img src="image.jpg" alt="my text" title="keywords about the image here">

to increase description/keyword relevency you would have to have more keywords in your page layout, because your site is mostly image based this is hard unless you use alt tags and title tags

if you need any more basic help go to my site (in my signature) and go to tutorials there is 1 on SEO

i hope that helps

The easiest way to make the site search engine friendly would be to not have only images. That being said, you really need to use alt descriptions.

Done correctly, alt descriptions do not change your site's design at all. In fact, they are not supposed to be displayed unless the user cannot see the image.

I believe putting your cursor over the image should display the title text, not the alt text, but IE screws this up.

tony84: I never thought about putting keyword text in the title description of an image. Thanks for the tip!

Thank you so much everybody!!!
One more question about alt tags: After I entered alt tags they didn't show up when I opened my site from my computer (IE or safari). But when I asked other people to open it (a different computer) all the little squares with the description showed up. I find that distracting and it changes the "look" if a little square pops up whenever you move over a button and often my images function as a button (that's what I meant by design change, sorry for my unprecise description).
Is there a way around it? Can I get alt tags to not show up when the cursor moves over an image?

I agree that the description appearing is distracting. I'm not sure of a way to prevent the description from coming up in IE. The problem is, they shouldn't show up, but Microsoft decided that they wanted them shown. It is just a wrong implementation in the browser. The only way to have no descriptions appear is to have a blank alt description, but that is not good practice.

Sorry I couldn't provide any help, I just don't think there is a way to get around it.

Thats being a little bit fussy. You shouldnt be worried about a little tag that appears when you hold the mouse over an image for a second or 2, if you dont want the alt tags just use title tags, although you should really be using alt tags (i personally dont use them but i may start soon as like someone mentioned its good practice) they only show up in IE, if you try it on mozilla they wont show up

if you target is google then u should use mata tags for each page and page title and mata content have to match with page content.to google a web site is a set of page .when someone seach something by a keyword ,google check the pages which match with keywords not sites.

you can check yr site rank in main search engines for keywords with this web site

http://www.rankwhere.com

Thanks again for all your advice! I am so glad I found this forum.

http://www.rankwhere.com
thanks for the link, very useful