Quote:
Originally Posted by Thomas
Tables do not affect the way search engines rank or view your website. Only frames get this sort of problem as the content isn't included within the primary source.
You should be using CSS to make the website, to make it more accessible, but at the end of the day, there is nothing wrong with a table layout if it is needed.
Although tables should only be used to display data.
|
As far as I was aware some search engines
do penalise you for using tables in an incorrect manner as it makes accessibility problems for people with screen readers as well as the fact the tables are being used
inproperly.
Sorry, got to disagree with the fact that it is OK to use tables for layout.
As was once famously said to me "
Tables are for tabular data not layout!".
Plus why would you want to design a website by
old standards and technology when you have CSS. I dragged my heels for a while and didnt want to use CSS but
using CSS was the best choice of my life!. It is so much easier to use and redesigning your entire website (which for me is hundreds of pages) it makes it a lot easier.
CSS is in and tables are so, most definitely,
out (apart from data that
should be in tables)
.