» Search Engine Friendly Website Design

I spend most of days working on building websites… but what sets my designs or pages apart from most others is they are search engine friendly and further more than that… they are user friendly. For now we’ll stick with the search engine friendly.

So what is a search friendly website design anyway. It’s the art of designing a website where most of the elements are text and html.. not graphics but in turn is crisp and clean. When I first started designing websites back in 1999… the only way to get a website to look crisp, clean, modern and professional was to use a ton of images and graphics. Search engines can’t read graphics … only the alternative text that is wrapped in them. Even today, navigational items for starters most often end up being images in traditional builds because you can really dial in the presentation and add rollover effects and so on. On the flip side you can dial in your site navigation and have it look just as cool and clean as an image by honing in on your Cascading Style Sheet skills. Combine your css based textual navigation and add your keyword strategy and you now have the foundation for a solid seo friendly website.

Over the course of the last year… I have spent numerous hours learn and tweaking my css skills because css is ultimately what allows one to build a true search engine friendly website. Almost every single website I’ve built in the last year is 99% html and 1% images and graphics. How… through cascading style sheets.

To sum it all up… search engine friendly website design starts with cascading style sheets, because without them you’ll still be designing with images and not html.