Google and CSS?

[bcc1234]

Hi, I'm thinking about re-designing my site to use CSS with positioned DIV's instead of tables.

Is there a chance that Google will penalize my site or will lower the crawling depth based on that change?

What about other SE's?

Thanks.

[Powdork]

It should not hurt you're rankings. If you're using an editor like dreamweaver be sure to position the tags associated with the layers in the order you want Googlebot to find them or your snippets will go awry. If your using a text editor just place the div's you want to show up more often closer to the opening body tag. This won't always work because the snippet comes from the text near the search query term but it works ok for me. Make sure any layers filled with links get further down the page as they tend to be filled with keywords and nothing is worse than having your description say "HOME ¦ LINKS ¦ DOWNLOADS...". Okay I suppose <title>Untitled</title> would be worse.

[Nick_W]

Why would this cause a problem?

CSS is not a dirty word, it's just the recommended way of styling HTML....

Nick

[4eyes]

No problem at all, in fact replacing tables with CSS positioning is one of our most important SEO tools.

[bcc1234]

Ok thanks guys.
I'm going over to the html forum to start asking css questions. :)