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Some great CSS articles

Thursday July 24, 2008

I found this article today about how CSS can improve your SEO. The article discusses 4 ways you can use CSS to improve your search engine rankings. And the first three suggestions are great. They include streamlining your HTML, organizing your page content, and using headings to highlight content. I would strongly recommend you avoid the fourth suggestion. While it may work at first, it smacks of spamming because you're sending different information to the search engines than you are to the readers. And while not all search engines read CSS right now, it won't be long before they do.

Another article I found today explains how to solve 5 CSS headaches. The headaches it discusses are:

While I'm not sure that testing is CSS specific, these are all important things to understand when you're working with CSS. This article can save you a lot of time and trouble.

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