CSS Zen Garden: The beauty of CSS
[via Simon Willison], the css Zen Garden seriously take CSS into the field of pretty web page design. Based on the sample html code, the Zen Garden brings you several beautiful design by applying different stylesheet, to demonstrate what can be accomplished visually through CSS–based design.
It’s cool. You want some beautiful, cool web design, yes, CSS could do it too. Check it out for yourself. At the current moment, they have 6 designs available: tranquille, Salmon Cream Cheese, stormweather, arch4.20, Blood Lust, deep thoughts.
[Note: the “Blood Lust” seem having the worst browser compliance. I doubt if any of these work under any legacy browsers. As usual, it ain’t easy. Check out the feedback on mezzoblue, who created the css zen garden]
They encourage participation, if you want to test your css skills:
Download the sample html file and css file to work on a copy locally. Once you have completed your masterpiece (and please, don’t submit half–finished work) upload your .css file to a web server under your control. Send us a link to the file and if we chose to use it, we will spider the associated images. Final submissions will be placed on our server.
May 10, 2003 06:55 PM | MovableType & Blogging
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