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Thanks, Steve.  That makes sense.

Thanks for the quick reply.  I guess I should have specified an external CSS file that contains the menu coding, vs. inline CSS coding.  From an SEO/crawl bot perspective, should the CSS menu coding be in an external file or inline?

Which is better for search engines: external or inline menus? And which language: CSS, Javascript, or both?

I see, thank you.

Thank you for the details.

Thank you, I was guessing that might be the thing to do.

On our weekly SEOmoz crawls, we get thousands of warnings about overly dynamic URLs as a result of our product sorting options at the top of our category pages.  It seems like the ability to sort products by price, name, etc., is nice for the customer.  For SEO is this really a problem or can we ignore these warnings?

That sounds like a good strategy, thank you.

That's what I suspected, thank you.

I carry a line of products that come in 4 sizes and 15 colors.  Is it better to have separate products for each combination (Red Large, Blue Small, etc), or a product for each size with attributes for the color, or something else?

Also, should I put the brand name in each product name, or only put it in the category that contains that brand?  Thanks.