| It seems more and more webmasters are using CSS | | | | to rewrite every page all you need do is alter the |
| for the design and layout of their sites rather than | | | | stylesheet. This saves you no end of time and saves |
| depending on tables and HTML mark up. As well as | | | | you no end of bandwidth, the browser only has to |
| being more efficient in terms of page size and | | | | pull down the stylesheet once if you use it for all of |
| reusing CSS templates many webmasters believe | | | | your pages. Not only have you saved on bandwidth |
| that it also contributes towards search engine | | | | costs but you have speeded up page loading, this is |
| friendliness. | | | | good for both your visitors and the many bots that |
| Jacob over at Blogging Pro has written an article | | | | crawl your site. |
| based on his personal experiences and points out | | | | I have started to use CSS in more of my sites and I |
| what he believes to make a better more search | | | | am going to use CSS solely on my next site which |
| engine friendly site. | | | | means learning about how CSS is used for layout. |
| For a long time I have always loved using tables for | | | | One of the sites that I have found useful is the Web |
| site layout, but the general consensus is now that | | | | Design Group where they have a guide to cascading |
| tables are bad for layout. I agree once you start | | | | style sheets. The site also includes lots of links to |
| nesting tables things start to get complicated and | | | | other CSS resources. |
| messy. All of this extra HTML in your page gets in | | | | If you are not using CSS it would be well worth your |
| the way of the real content that the search engines | | | | time learning the CSS tags and their properties. Think |
| are after. If you separate design from content the | | | | of it as a future investment, the time you spend |
| search engines can just crawl the content and ignore | | | | now will pay for itself in better search engine ranking, |
| the design. | | | | saved bandwidth and you will cut down on your |
| Separating content from design also means that | | | | maintenance and development time for your new |
| pages are much easier to update, rather than having | | | | sites. |