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Why I Switched to A Tableless Design  by: Karen Blundell Since I made the switch 6 months ago to a tableless design on my main site, I’ve noticed some interesting things: My search engine rankings have dramatically improved My bandwidth usage has dropped about 50-75% I can now make changes to the look and feel of my site easily by just changing the one file, the stylesheet. Let’s look at why my search engine rankings improved. Now that I have less un-indexable code on my pages, the search engines can now spider my site quicker. Less code, more content, therefore a better ranking. Makes sense, doesn’t it? Bandwidth costs money, and unless you have a really good hosting plan with lots of bandwidth, then your larger files will take up more room on your server, and take a lot longer to load. Tableless designs use up considerably less bandwidth and are more accessible. Every once in a while I may want to alter the look of my site. I like to change font colors, link colors, menu items, etc…Before I started using tableless designs, these changes took me hours to do. Now I just open up my stylesheet, make the changes I want, and in a few minutes I have my site updated with the new look and feel. It’s so easy! For a client who wants to make their own changes, tableless designs could literally save them thousands on tech costs. Most of my clients still want sites with tables. I now give them the choice of either style. After all, the customer needs to be happy, right? Some people have the misconception that utilizing tableless designs means having a boring and less graphical site. Nothing could be further from the truth. Take a look at one of my favorite websites: http://www.csszengarden.com/. At that site you can really appreciate what can be accomplished through css-based tableless designs. Beautiful! So make the switch to a more profitable, usable, and accessible website! About The Author Karen Blundell is a web designer and internet consultant based in Welland, Ontario. Her focus is to assist home and small business owners succeed on the internet. You can find out more about her services at http://webzonecentral.com. webmaster@webzonecentral.com This article was posted on August 19, 2005   View More Videos from the "Web Design and Development" category: How to Compare the Value of a Control with a Fixed Value How to Install a Wordpress Blog How to Land an MTV Video Music Award Writing Job How to Create a Web Page using MS Expression Web   Read More Articles from the "Web Design and Development" Category: A Much Easier Way To Make Your Own Web Site by Alexander Marlin 6 Features Of A Winning Website! by Kabir Bedi Basic Guidelines for Web Design by Brian Lee Helping Your Visitors To A Great Website Experience by Mark Gerrard Dynamic Websites versus Static Websites by Alan Smith A Beginners Guide to Web Page Design by Michael Turner Making Aware Of Different Elements Of CMS For Your Website by Alan Smith Website Designing - Looks vs. Works by Kathy John Learning About the Importance of SEO by Margarette Mcbride Web Based Application Development, Software Development Resources by BluEnt eSolutions << Back to "Web Design And Development" Index

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