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Thank you all for the comments on Fixed vs. Fluid Layouts and Browser size. I agree that for a business web site, where the content doesn’t change a thousand times a day, a site with fixed width is easier to manage. Yet, there is something very cool about using fluid positioning on certain elements. I have a friend that works for a museum, and their web site uses some cool and very easy to implement Fluid Positioning: www.pem.org/homepage.

Years ago I built a web site for a specific SEO project - more on this later - for Ziff Davis Media. I relied heavily on the following web site, www.bluerobot.com, which has a lot of great examples on how to implement CSS in many web site scenarios. What’s great is that this site provides the code for you! This was my go to site when I was learning CSS positioning!

OK, the SEO project mentioned above included creating absolute positioned div tags in a relative positioned div wrapper. The point of this project was to get the most important search engine friendly content at the top of the HTML code page, while the content that you see in the browser is positioned somewhere in the middle of the page. Essentially, we wanted to “trick” search engines.

We contemplated doing the same thing for www.whatsupgold.com, but I’ve talked to at least one SEO expert that suggested this type of practice yields little to no advantage to all the trouble that it’s worth.

Comments by web developers and SEO gurus would be greatly appreciated, and look for the new site on May 6th.