[newbie]

I am currently looking for a wordpress theme which is SEO optimised. Now I know there is a variety of things I can do to make the final wordpress site more seo friendly, through using various plugins and modifying the way data is displayed. However, what I am unsure about is what to look for in a wordpress theme/template. I have seen a nice theme but it uses tables in the sidenav element in the stylesheet style.css

Is this a bad thing? I've read that tables are bad for SEO purposes but if this table is just being used for the items in a menu does it matter? Any advice would be appreciated.

[KeyMark Services]

In answer to your topic...

tables are friends if used and coded correctly for SEO purposes

foes (as with any other coding aspect of layout) if used in incorrectly.

Personally, I use css for layout and tables to display data controlled by the css.

HTH

[RedEvo]

Grab a CSS based template and avoid templates that use tables for layout. Not really because of SEO, more because it's best practice. We've got a few.

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[KeyMark Services]

Originally Posted by RedEvo

Grab a CSS based template and avoid templates that use tables for layout. Not really because of SEO, more because it's best practice. We've got a few.

d

Could not agree more...tables for data, css for layout presentation but as long as they are indexed correctly, they will not cause any major issue for the SE Bots.

If you love a design and it does use tables in the layout for some aspects, do not let this put you off.

HTH

[newbie]

Originally Posted by RedEvo

Grab a CSS based template and avoid templates that use tables for layout. Not really because of SEO, more because it's best practice. We've got a few.

d

Thanks very much for your comments guy! Dave I had a look at your wordpress templates... there's some really nice ones there. I particularly liked the redevo_news themes. I think I'm going to go for the blue version. I spent a fair bit of time playing around with the template and everything looks fine, the main thing I am struggling with is to how to display the pictures in the "convertina" effect menu just under the header where the latest posts are put. In the theme download these are located in the featured-images folder. I have had a look at the code in all the theme sections and though I can see the code for the concertina effect in the header section, I can't figure out how to reference the pics for those elements. I'm sure it's probably blindingly obvious but at the moment I'm not having any joy.

[RedEvo]

Check out the readme.txt file that comes with the theme.

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[dudley]

if you are not sure on tables, there are many css wordpress template there.