The way you achieve this is by coding your Web site using CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), and not with tables. Tables should be used for "tabular data" only and not for layouts. The table of contents (navigation) belongs at the top.
Again, while selected snippets from books would be useful, many library catalogs already provide access to non-bibliographic info like author bios, book covers, reviews, tables-of-contents, indexes, and more.
Frequently, you'll find tables-of-contents, book reviews, snippets, web links, and more. My mind is going a million miles a minute over the whole "Perfect Search" discussion that kicked off this week.
But as a general rule, think of directories as tables of contents and search engines as indexes. In the front of the book is the table of contents, which provides a high-level overview of the book, with descriptions of chapters and sections.
For example, tables can reduce a web page's relevancy, but that doesn't mean a search engine only reads a little of the table and ignores the rest of the page, as stated. The contents of this report and past reports can also be found at the address...
For example, tables can reduce a web page's relevancy, but that doesn't mean a search engine only reads a little of the table and ignores the rest of the page, as stated. The contents of this report and past reports can also be found at the address...
