Can any design be coded in HTML? SEO Related

Someone I do SEO work for has a new design she wants
to run by her web designer and me. It is a series of small
boxes, thumbnails, about 21, on a page, that is really just
a white background. What the designer has been doing before
is using large single file graphics for her page, which load
very slowly and he also has been embedding the text in the
graphics which the search engines don't like.

I thought that with a good WYSIYG program you could basically
code anything in parts, not have to rely on big graphics but could
cut things up easily, or even more easily put text on top of
graphics. He is saying there are constraints in html code related
to tables.

If anyone can shed some light on this it would be appreciated.

--
Robert Pearson
ParaMind Brainstorming Software http://www.paramind.net
Creative Virtue Press/Telical Books/Regenerative Music
http://www.rspearson.com

Re: Can any design be coded in HTML? SEO Related

RS wrote:
> Someone I do SEO work for has a new design she wants
> to run by her web designer and me. It is a series of small
> boxes, thumbnails, about 21, on a page, that is really just
> a white background. What the designer has been doing before
> is using large single file graphics for her page, which load
> very slowly and he also has been embedding the text in the
> graphics which the search engines don't like.

You're joking, right? Yeah! Come on, you're joking!

--
Take care,

Jonathan
-------------------
LITTLE WORKS STUDIO
http://www.LittleWorksStudio.com

Re: Can any design be coded in HTML? SEO Related

RS wrote:
> Someone I do SEO work for has a new design she wants
> to run by her web designer and me. It is a series of small
> boxes, thumbnails, about 21, on a page, that is really just
> a white background. What the designer has been doing before
> is using large single file graphics for her page, which load
> very slowly and he also has been embedding the text in the
> graphics which the search engines don't like.
>
> I thought that with a good WYSIYG program you could basically
> code anything in parts, not have to rely on big graphics but could
> cut things up easily, or even more easily put text on top of
> graphics. He is saying there are constraints in html code related
> to tables.
>
> If anyone can shed some light on this it would be appreciated.
>
> --
> Robert Pearson
> ParaMind Brainstorming Software http://www.paramind.net
> Creative Virtue Press/Telical Books/Regenerative Music
> http://www.rspearson.com
>

Sorry, I can't decipher this at all. We need a link to the site.

Re: Can any design be coded in HTML? SEO Related

Jonathan N. Little wrote:
> RS wrote:
>> Someone I do SEO work for has a new design she wants
>> to run by her web designer and me. It is a series of small
>> boxes, thumbnails, about 21, on a page, that is really just
>> a white background. What the designer has been doing before
>> is using large single file graphics for her page, which load
>> very slowly and he also has been embedding the text in the
>> graphics which the search engines don't like.
>
> You're joking, right? Yeah! Come on, you're joking!
>
Anything _that_ designer tells the op can be ignored.

Re: Can any design be coded in HTML? SEO Related

"mbstevens" wrote in message
news:13it3rmioal397b@corp.supernews.com...
> Jonathan N. Little wrote:
>> RS wrote:
>>> Someone I do SEO work for has a new design she wants
>>> to run by her web designer and me. It is a series of small
>>> boxes, thumbnails, about 21, on a page, that is really just
>>> a white background. What the designer has been doing before
>>> is using large single file graphics for her page, which load
>>> very slowly and he also has been embedding the text in the
>>> graphics which the search engines don't like.
>>
>> You're joking, right? Yeah! Come on, you're joking!
>>
> Anything _that_ designer tells the op can be ignored.

ditto the last speaker.... that's the best laugh I've had in ages :)))

Re: Can any design be coded in HTML? SEO Related

What I should have said is that the boxes, or thumbnails,
are of different sizes and placed in artisitic ways all over the
place. There is no grid. It was as if someone hung a bunch
of little paintings on a very large wall.

--
Robert Pearson
ParaMind Brainstorming Software http://www.paramind.net
Creative Virtue Press/Telical Books/Regenerative Music
http://www.rspearson.com

Re: Can any design be coded in HTML? SEO Related

RS wrote:
> but could
> cut things up easily, or even more easily put text on top of
> graphics.

> ................

> What I should have said is that the boxes, or thumbnails,
> are of different sizes and placed in artisitic ways all over the
> place. There is no grid. It was as if someone hung a bunch
> of little paintings on a very large wall.


There are ways to "put text on top of graphics" that
cause less problems than using image-text. Here is an
article about using text-links atop images:

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/imagemap/

Re: Can any design be coded in HTML? SEO Related

On 2007-11-05, RS wrote:
> What I should have said is that the boxes, or thumbnails,
> are of different sizes and placed in artisitic ways all over the
> place. There is no grid. It was as if someone hung a bunch
> of little paintings on a very large wall.

Use absolute positioning.