I can't seem to get a straight answer when it comes to how a site is coded/built and the affects that this has on SEO. After having taken a few web courses (design to SEO related courses) it seems to me that the "best practice" with regard to building a site that is search engine "friendly" is with CSS, utilizing as few tables as possible. I've been told by numerous instructors that tables can adversely...

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I need some advice. My wepage is more or less being held ransom by my webmaster because of her knowledge of html. If I need to make a change of any kind I need to wait a week plus for anything to get done. Now, she wants to charge me an up-front fee for any changes before they are done. I can't even put on any links because I have to check with her first....

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What is the HTML needed to add an ASK.COM search box or search form to my web page? Thanks....

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I saw that on the anniversary of 9/11 you changed your Web site home page to have a thick black border and some commemorative words. Nice, low key, and still effective. How'd ya do it?...

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Just a quick question: as I'm figuring out HTML, I've learned that "<b></b>" will make the inner text bold, but why are we seeing "<strong>" being used these days? Is there a difference?...

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I've been writing some scripts to display large directories of images in HTML in an automated fashion and not infrequently the static HTML generated ends up not matching the underlying images on the server. I could generate the pages on-demand, but it's too processor intensive. Instead, I'd like to know if there's a way I can automatically display an "image no longer available" graphic instead of just a broken link?...

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I have a web site that I placed on the Internet in the year 2000. It consists of HTML 4 and Frames. At this time it opens in different browsers with no problem. With the advances of CSS and newer browsers running CSS more proficiently do you think the older web sites with frames will stop working correctly? I don't even know where to start with changing over to CSS as I have over 100...

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I've been blogging for a few weeks now and have taken to heart the advice you gave about trying to include graphics, images or photographs in blog entries. Problem is, I can't figure out how to have the text flow around the graphic and it's getting really annoying. How do you do that on your business blog entries?...

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I'm trying to get my company motto tucked right under my site URL in my header using CSS and can't quite get it right. I tried <h4> </h4> instead of <p></p>. Motto is showing up above domain name, still having trouble getting motto under domain name. Here's my code: <div id="header">   <div id="logo">     <h1><a href="#">mywebsite.com</a></h1><br />     <p><i>My motto here.</i></p>   </div></div> and I have a bunch of complicated CSS, but...

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On my friend's myspace profiles they have a color box around their comments and the text is in diffent colour too. I've asked them how they did it but they say they forgot. so how do you do it....

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I finally figured out how to create a new group on MySpace and now I want to pimp it out with some bling. To start, how can I change the background color of the page? I'll have more questions soon, so don't go anywhere! :-)...

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I'm pulling out my hair! I want to include images in my blog entries and have those images show up in the RSS feed too, but either I end up with no image showing up at all, or I end up with the text abutting the image, which looks terrible. What's the best practice with this, Dave?...

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I was reading through some of your myspace help and it's great. thanks so much for letting me tweak my background without having to slap a bunch of stupid adverts on for your site! :) While I was reading your profile on myspace [dave's profile on myspace], I noticed you had a nice effect with some text that you somehow put into a box. How did you do that??...

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Can you give me the rudimentary HTML tags that I need to be able to create bold, italics, change font colors and include both hypertext references and images to my blog entries? Thanks!...

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Dave, how can you change the attributes of the Submit button (font, color, color of the button, etc.)? When I get the answer, I promise to buy you that chai....

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How do i get a nice background on my page? I can find a very good one but it always says myspace on it but i try it anyway. How do i put the graphic into my background on my page?...

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