Resources for how to code pages...

[19prince]

I'm looking for some nuts and bolts ideas about how to best layout the HTML code for a webpage.

Can you point to some case studies?

Perhaps you've done some testing yourself?

This could be folded into the Tom Critchlow's question about what should be included in a updated developers SEO cheat sheet.

[linztm]

I don't quite get what you're asking.  Are you asking about how to code in HTML, what languages to use, or how to properly lay out a theme to a website?

Most people now-a-days use some sort of Content-Management System as a backend for their site, to add and edit content, while updating the theme using html and php.   To get started I would suggest reading some tutorials on how to begin coding in HTML then move on to LAMP development.  A lot can be included in this topic!

[19prince]

I take your point... my question is a bit vague. Let me restate...

Let's say you hit view source or go the Google Webmaster Tools and fetch as GoogleBot...

How should the code be arranged within the ?

Have you, or anyone out there, played around with this...  I'm thinking that changing up the first link on every page could have some interesting effects.  Or, perhaps should we push onpage text up the page.

[linztm]

I'm fairly confident that a crawler will rate the links and information it comes across first as a higher priority than links further down the page.  I don't see how putting more relevant content higher on the page and sorting out the placement with CSS could really hurt anything, so it's definitely worth a try!

[19prince]

Exactly, that's sort of where I'm at - "...definitely worth a try."

I'm hoping to hear from someone who's actually tested this all out.