Ok, basically every template out there has something to do with CSS, and I was wondering if just straight HTML is better in terms of SEO, or if CSS is just as good. Is there even a difference? Thanks! Bryan
In HTML there are many types of HTML coding, either Framed, tabled, or CSS. CSS/XHTML is search engine friendly because it has lesser codes than tabled layouts.
now a days a lot of webmasters use CSS style sheets, because of it's reliability... Although we can't set a side the usability of an Static Page, For me it is a hand to hand question it is.
Just about every huge site on the planet is using style sheets. Technically, CSS is a companion to html. You really can't have a site with CSS but no html. Does that make sense? Brandon
Its all associated or embed with HTML but its not a type of HTML Its better to have a CSS, separate your design make it on CSS, its decrease your site size. CSS is part of on page optimization
I would think you would use CSS instead of straight html just to make upkeep simpler, especially if you have multiple pages for a site. Much easier to change colors, font, layout, etc. with CSS. IMHO, I'm not convinced that using css is more seo friendly (I've seen lots of pages in #1 positions that don't seem to use it).
For me it will depend on how you will write the codes either CSS or HTML just follow the standards and you'll be fine.
First of all, HTML and CSS are 2 different things. HTML - mark-up language. CSS - styling of HTML. So it's something like HTML is a dress, and CSS is the colors and drawings on the dress. Nowadays smart people code in XHTML and use CSS to style and position elements. Ideally, the mark-up should not contain any styling and other stuff.
The use of CSS Style Sheets reduces the number of characters needed to program a HTML page. The "text to code ratio" of a CSS page is higher than standard HTML.
Although, on about 7k worth of page code, the difference hinges on the verge of inconsequential. It all has its uses.
Hahaha LOL One more thing that I can add, you can put css on diff files, disallow SEs to index it (bcoz it's useless), and make the original HTML files more SE robots friendly.
Yeah, Philopoemen right... nowadays design is all about seperating style from content. Design and write your site mark-up then style it using CSS, you can have CSS for different browsers (if needs be) and for different platforms (eg print, webtv, pda etc) Keeping your style separate is also more efficient.
your referring to its acronym HTML - hypertext markup language CSS - cascading style sheet yes these two are different as HTML is a formatting language and CSS is a scripting language
rather it reduced file-size because CSS allow you to separate design to a external files.(separate code from design) It also reduced bandwidth costs.
First and very important thing is Website Optimization should done according to customers and then Search engine Crawlers. And now a days HTML is nothing without CSS. These both are important for SEO point of view and viewer point of view. and infect CSS make HTML code lot easier and Understandable (Developer point of view)