DIVs are great. You can reclassify them in the CSS file, and change the layout all at a go, instead of recoding the entire damn site.
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LPs .. Tables -or- DIVs
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LoL. Do a view source on the page...
<!-- Fact: Chuck Norris hates layout tables! -->
Haha!
Of course XHTML+CSS (divs, spans) will be better than table, is easier to maintain and load faster than tables. The more nested table you have, the worse.
Browsers draw divs way faster than tables, even locally if you press Refresh you will see no blink with divs, whereas with tables you'll see the CPU takes more time (yeah milliseconds or more but when you have a lot of codes it matters a lot).
I don't have to say that divs+CSS will keep a clean design and code (which of course is better for crawlers as well).
Edit: why do you think crawlers and SE's like Wordpress?, look at the code of a wordpress site with a decent Theme.
Browsers draw divs way faster than tables, even locally if you press Refresh you will see no blink with divs, whereas with tables you'll see the CPU takes more time (yeah milliseconds or more but when you have a lot of codes it matters a lot).
I don't have to say that divs+CSS will keep a clean design and code (which of course is better for crawlers as well).
Edit: why do you think crawlers and SE's like Wordpress?, look at the code of a wordpress site with a decent Theme.
I like using xhtml/css because I can make the order of content the search engines see different from what people see visually.
So my page might have a left navigation and content to the right, but my content actually comes first and my navigation last in the code and to google. With tables it would be the other way around. Just look at a page that uses css and look at it without the style sheet. That is how the search engines see it and it is much cleaner than tables.
So my page might have a left navigation and content to the right, but my content actually comes first and my navigation last in the code and to google. With tables it would be the other way around. Just look at a page that uses css and look at it without the style sheet. That is how the search engines see it and it is much cleaner than tables.
Google does not penalise sites for using non standards code or tables. If you use correct title, h1 tags etc there will be no difference in QS or PR. I'm not saying you shouldn't learn to code correctly, just answering the question.
Still learn css as once you get it, its the way to go.
Still learn css as once you get it, its the way to go.
This is actually an important note, because Google will read through almost anything. You can throw the sloppiest code ever at it, and you'll most likely be fine. This is for the people who stress about w3 compliance (might as well be compliant while you're at it, but you get the point).
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