Effects of Table design

Many web developers around the world are still deploying websites made with tables. These tables are to hold the design / look and feel of the web page together. Since then a new web standard for the layout of web pages has been adopted called CSS or Cascading Style Sheets.

This new and improved manner for the layout of a web page keeps the content and the design separate. Meaning the web developer can place the all-important content of a page in the top of the code of the document after the header so that the Meta Search Engines crawl it first before anything else. The visual design and display of the page is no different, the only difference being what drives it. The accessibility to your website by Meta Search Engines is important for your webpage ranking. These Meta Search Engines can be difficult at times due to spammers trying to gain higher rankings through abusing the system in place. They have very little time to spend on each site before they need to go on to another as the world wide web is a huge place.

This brings us to Table layout, the older method of the two, was originally used for tubular data and made the table layout and design a little more awkward. This is because the table design and html content are combined together rather than separated like in the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) method. In the construction of the table based layout, many designer / developers have the table layout in the following steps; the logo, navigation, and then the content of a page displayed. This display is reflected in the internal coding of the web page, so when the Meta Search Engine spider comes along it will index the table made webpage from left to right top to bottom. You can imagine the outcome when the Meta Search Engine usually only indexes the first 250 characters.

The outcome being a lower web page rank in comparison to the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) method where all the content can be indexed immediately. This may seem a little quirk however the ramifications are significant.

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