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Message: [QUOTE="Adrienne, post: 4363225"] I cannot possibly see how a search engine bot could like tables. Bots are blind and therefore have the same issues with tables that persons using screen readers have with incorrectly linearized tables. All markup in the table has to be processed before the page loads, same thing for SE bots, they have to wait longer for a table than plain markup. That's really good. I think there are more and more of us who are doing that. You have a lot more flexibility with CSS than with table designs. Some of the stuff that Eric Myer is doing, and CSS Zen Garden IMHO just isn't possible with tables. XHTML Strict Doc Type and Well formed semantic markup. I also serve as application xhtml/+xml if the user agent will accept it. You should check alt.internet.search-engines . The growing opinion is that well formed semantic markup is what gets you good SERPs, as well as good inbound links. [/QUOTE]