Sent by Dramatic Design on 3 September 2002 07:07
On Tue, 3 Sep 2002 13:51:57 +1000, Peter Williams wrote:
<snip Lon's container solution>
>I recognise that you can use a container div like that,
>is it "right" though, or even more "right" than my use
>of a float to get then side by side?
>I have a good general understanding of markup and css,
>but sometimes I'm unsure of the correct philosophical
>approach to problems.
>It seems to me that adding an arbitary div with no semantic
>meaning is no better than my use of float (which till you
>mentioned it earlier I had no idea was improper) to achieve
>this layout.
>
Peter,
another reason that I have learned to dislike using floats for
layout is that they remove the ability to optimize the unstyled
flow of a page. If you can produce a layout where the source
contains the content before the navigation, it makes the page
much more accessible in terms of page readers and also gives quite
a boost with S.E. indexing robots. One site I converted to absolute
positioning started ranking much better. (In fact previously the
"wrong" pages from the site had been turning up first in results
because the navigation to other parts of the site was being
considered as content.
Richard
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