Ive been reading that you can use webdesign its self to improve SEO and backlinks, whats do you think about this ? can it really help ?
Asolutely right , If you create a unique design totally in CSS you can submit your site to CSS gallery sites , not only will this give you more traffic because people always like to look at a nice design but alot of the time CSS galleries have high PR and authority. Some nice backlinks to have
Design matters a lot - do you want the search engine indexing gifs, corners and button, or do you want them indexing the content? There was this big deal about disney hiring a web development company several years ago. When the company was finished, the search engines were indexing the HTML code instead of the content.
Yes, Surely if your site consists of cascading style sheets or any flash designs you can get a much better traffic.
A simple but very unique design can increase the number of not just only backlinks but also returning visitors to your site.
Of course, use on-page optimization technique in doing it so. It can help you to easily crawled by the search engine spider. Good luck!