I am working on building my site to be friendly to search engine spiders. I read that websites with alot of photos are not friendly to search engine spiders. One thing that I noticed when I was working on my website is the VSD turns every word that I make a link out of into an image. Will this prevent my website from being crawled effectively? This happend to all my links on my site map as well, I have a feeling that this will not be good in terms of search engines. Any ideas would be very helpful.

It is my understanding that VSD only turns text into an image when you use "Advanced Text" feature. Otherwise it should remain as regular text.

Ok, here is another question. I am creating an XML sitemap for my webpage and I am not sure how to integrate that into VSD. Does anyone know how I would do this? Do all the files that are in the website folder on my computer get uploaded when I publish? I am wondering if I could just save it as an XML file in the folder with the rest of my website. Then hopefully it will be uploaded to my web host when I publish my website. What do you think? Would that work or will I have to do this a different way?

Just add it to VSD using the "Add files" tool in the main menu under "Edit". I put mine in a folder called sitemap. Then publish and give Google the link to the file.