This Mesa Arizona Bankruptcy Attorney contacted My Favorite Web Designs for help with their SEO. One thing I noticed when working with their site was that the WordPress theme was circa 2006, and not compatible with most of today’s awesome WordPress plugins. We built a brand new design, from scratch. The lawyers and I went back and forth until we had the design perfect, at which point I built it out into a working Custom WordPress theme, replete with standards compliant CSS, HTML, Jquery slideshow and a smooth CMS for all of it.
When building the skin, I use the minimal amount of code, and keep 95% of my code as external CSS, which makes the design easier for search engines to read. I use Jquery animations instead of Flash for tons of stuff as well, such as the slideshow on this website, which makes for better SEO and better performance. I also design the content sections into hierarchy for search performance, which I do naturally.