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Web Development and Design in London: Using Divs versus using Tables.
by Robert London |
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Most Web Development professionals in London have reached a crossroad in website design which will influence the way they proceed with current and future web design projects.
While there can be no argument over the benefits of CSS stylesheets in opposition to inline styling, there is still a great deal of controversy over the adoption of new web site design layout.
On the one hand we have the tried and trusted method of Web page creation using Tables and on the other we have the contemporary method of using DIV’s. The core problem is which method to use? Which method is better?
Web Development purists in London will argue for complete and full adoption of W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), which means only using DIV tags to build and layout your website pages. There are a few major points they use to back up their argument, most of which surround and support SEO (Search Engine Optimisation).
The Benefits of using DIV’s
•The DIV tags original purpose is for the design and layout of website content.
•Using DIV’s means less code needed to construct a webpage, which means less code for a search bot to navigate through. This means quicker and more comprehensive indexing of your website. “Content is King” for search bots.
•Because of the “Top down” method in which data is displayed in the website page, search engines are able to search and rank the importance of your content on your webpage.
But the ideas of the |
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| About the Author |
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Robert London is an employee at Lilo, a Web Development and Design company based in London. Lilo also specialises in Web Development London, Website Design and Branding, E-marketing, E-commerce, and Multimedia, Web Applications as well as SEO London. Lilo has offices in Blooms bury, London, Cape Town South Africa and Melbourne Australia.
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