Comment Good design for users and search engines! (Score 1) 858
Many posters have asked - who is your audience? Both the viewers and search engines! After all, a biz website is supposed to attract traffic, right? For your SE results, stick with basic design principles and put your context in text form. Make sure to cover all the meta tags, and hand-submit to SE's the right way! Stick to tables if possible. Design for slower download speed and smaller monitors/resolutions. If you must use javascript, put it in separate external.js file. There are good situations for using Flash & DHTML/XML - if designing for an artist or programming geek.But this is rare if you usually build for businesses. Don't build entire site around a database - SE's are still behind the times on reading those.
hope I've added something constructive to this subject.....