not displaying text on google search for my site

[masterpp]

my page contains only images, link of images, and one word of text.
Since the google has crawled my site yesterday. and i searched my site in google, there is only one word which is i only have one text word on page and title. I already have <meta name="description" content="blah blah">

Why can't it display the description of meta on the google search for my site?
I know the only way is putting the description in a hidden text(using same color as background) but is that illegal? I've search more info about hidden text and it said penalty.

[pmac]

Hello masterpp, and welcome to WebmasterWorld.

Google needs to see some text content on the page. Usually, pages with very little text on the page will struggle to rank very well unless they have a bunch of links with the keyword in the incoming link text.

Google usually uses a "snippet" of text from the body of the page for the description. I would try and get the phrase you are targeting on the page without hiding it.

[lazerzubb]

You can write a really short description on your page, and if that's the only visible text, you can try to write a really good description because then you know it will always show up in the snippets for different searches.