Search engine placement is one of the most important ingredients for a successful online business. Whilst searching via a search engine, some users will not venture past the first page, so it's imperative your website is featured at the top. DHTML menus are often thought to hinder the success of search engine optimization but that isn't the case with Milonic.

Mitko Gerensky-Greene, a search engine optimization expert from WebSage has written an article about using the Milonic DHTML Menu whilst still achieving the best possible search engine placement.

The question of search engine placement and DHTML/JavaScript has come up a lot in the forums recently and there are some great tips in this article, along with a brief rundown on what to look out for when designing your own site using the menu.

Here's the article: Search engine placement and DHTML/JavaScript

You may also want to see how Milonic deal with this problem. If you view the HTML source code of this page you will see a tag. This is an invaluable tag for allowing search engines to crawl our website. It's also great as an alternative menu system for the rare user who prefers to have JavaScript switched off. As you can imagine, if a user visits our website without having JavaScript enabled, they will not be able to see the menu. This technique gives you the best of both worlds. See for yourself, temporarily switch JavaScript off in your web browser and refresh the home page at Milonic. You should see a text based menu appear, this is the fall back menu system that search engines see.