Changing a site from old Dreamweaver to New

I want to update my web site from an html site to css, but don't want to hurt my well established standing in the search engines -- especially Google. I plan to keep all of the page names, meta tags & descriptions the same through the change. I have heard that Google likes css. In the past whenever I redesigned the site and uploaded the new pages it seemed to take Google time to recognize it and I lost visits -- and business. Suggestions?

Welcome!

A hearty welcome to the Spring Dreamweaver CS4 class.

Please feel free to read back posts and comments, and to post and comment yourself.

Project Website

Hello, my project website for the CS4 class is www.duanepatricio.com - it is a website I developed for my neighbor who is an artist who custom builds furniture specifically mirrors, tables, and frames from old boards salvaged from Maine coastal homes and barns.

Your sites

Marybeth has asked whether other class members would post their sites and let us know the URLs. If you can do that, please also write a brief blog entry with an explanation.

Hope all is going well with you all!

How can I make a back button?

What kind of link, behavior can I add to a button (when clicked) will return to the page last viewed?  ie: back button

Thanks,

Rick

Browsers

Just wondering if anyone is having difficulty with their websites looking different from browser to browser, for some reason some links in particular PDF links and some links in my spry menu are not working in IE but working fine in Chrome, Firefox and safari.
I seem to be having most of my problems with IE as I noticed Firefox, Safari and Chrome are very similar with small differences but IE seems to work completely different from the other three

Disjointed rollovers without javascript

Using pure CSS, it is entirely possible to make disjointed rollovers. 

I just discovered an explanation with one example being extra-intriguing (but still very simple!).

Take a look at: http://pmob.co.uk/pob/animated.htm

and http://pmob.co.uk/pob/disjointed1.htm

Color Blindness

When you design for the web, you must consider legibility a high priority.

Contrast between text and color blocks/background images is paramount to creating an easily-read page.

Consider your color-blind viewers, and check out your pages at http://colorfilter.wickline.org Bring this page up on your browser and look at your pages one by one (you enter the URL at the page) through special filters designed to mimic the page as seen by a person who is colorblind. Several different colorblind conditions are mimicked; you can click between them while viewing a rendering of your page.

This resource may help you steer clear of pages that are difficult to read.