Close to the top with a navigation bar on the left.

How do you do it?

[delsartm]

Hello!

I have a web site with a navigation bar on the left hand side (in a table). Nothing out of the ordinary.

My concern is that my <H1>, <H2> tags and text will appear AFTER all the navigation links.

I read the text that was close to the top of a page was important for search engines.

How do you best deal with this issue?

Put navigation on the right?
Put a title and some text on top of everything?

I would appreciate your input!

[photon]

You can use CSS positioning so that even though the navigation comes after the content in the code, it can appear anywhere you'd like on the screen.

[tedster]

I assume you're using a table for layout. If so, you've already named two approaches I use.

Then there's using CSS to place content in a div with position:absolute so it can be placed at the top of the HTML and still be rendered exactly where you want on screen.

And there's also an approach where you start your table with a slim and nearly empty table cell in row-1 cell-1; row-1 cell-2 has rowspan=2 to hold your content. Then you start your left menu in row-2 cell-2.

[creative craig]

The table trick:
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I think these thread will help you in using good old fashioned tables and still get the content above the navigation on the left.

Craig

[delsartm]

Thanks very much, I appreciate it.