SEO Question for Links

[csr2]

Right now on our rather large site we have a bar of links that goes down the left hand side of our viewable web page.

When you view the source, the links on the left hand side are showing up ABOVE our page content, which is obviously not ideal. I have seen other sites that use char=side to locate their links list to the left, but leaves the code for it below the rest of the page information. Does anyone know how to do this, or how to make it so that our links, which are on every page, still show up to the left, but do not superceed our page information, in the code?

Thank you!

[BFChris]

You could edit the template and stylesheet to rearrange things.

[csr2]

How would you do it though - so that the link information still shows on the left hand side, but shows in the bottom of the code - not the top?

[BFChris]

It depends greatly on the template.

The basic idea is that you would take the [-- Loop Links --] section of the code in the page template and move it down below the main content area.

Then, you would have to adjust the CSS for that section of code to position it properly, either using absolute positioning or a float. You may have to adjust other positioning accordingly so everything still lays out correctly.

If the page is laid out with <div> tags for elements and arrangement, it should be pretty easy. If the template is constructed with tables, it could take a lot more redesigning of the template to get it to work.

[MgmtSpec]

Easy table layout for main content to display at top...

Top row, align top
First cell is a non breaking space or can do 1 px image transparent
Second cell has main content and ROW SPAN of 2

2nd Row - first cell has nav links. Second cell is carried over from row one.

<table>
<tr valign="top">
<td>(no br sp</td>
<td rowspan="2">MAIN CONTENT</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>nav links on left</td>
</tr>
<table>

Well supported on new and older browser, white hat.

[mjbrunelle]

Place the code in a <div></div> panel, and use an absolute position css specificiation.

We have pop ups that display data at various times on the users screen. All code is at the bottom of the source with absolute position reference.

MarkB