Lets use this thread to post our favourite designs from the CSS Zen garden. Then we have something to flip back to when we need inspiration.
Here's one I found today:
http://www.csszengarden.com/?cssfile=/154/154.css&page=0
I'm just in awe of some of these designs. I can only dream of being that good!
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dk01 posted this at 21:10—18th March 2005.
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Normally I prefer designs that are 100% of the page if possible but I have to go with this one:
http://www.csszengarden.com/?cssfile=/144/144.css&page=1
Its simple but I love the green.
-dk
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teammatt3 posted this at 05:23—19th March 2005.
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I like this one http://csszengarden.com/?cssfile=http://www.naganooch.com/csszengarden/zg_final/sample2.css
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nicora posted this at 08:33—19th March 2005.
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http://www.csszengarden.com/?cssfile=/118/118.css&page=4
http://www.csszengarden.com/?cssfile=/109/109.css&page=6
http://www.csszengarden.com/?cssfile=/096/096.css&page=7
http://www.csszengarden.com/?cssfile=/094/094.css&page=7
http://www.csszengarden.com/?cssfile=/089/089.css&page=8
css zen has really inovative stuff - great thread megan
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Dragon of Ice posted this at 16:17—19th March 2005.
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http://www.csszengarden.com/index.php?cssfile=/095/095.css&page=
Love the Garden!
bja888 posted this at 17:37—19th March 2005.
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http://csszengarden.com/?cssfile=http://chipgrafx.com/zg/propa.css
These dont look too hard. I'm sure all of you can do it.
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PetittJo posted this at 03:00—20th March 2005.
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I just love some of the masterpieces done on csszengarden.com, as the graphics are unbelivable on some of them. From the looks they used amazing graphic skills to make the site effective yet CSS based. Am I correct on this?
ziggy02 posted this at 07:09—24th March 2005.
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yes, you're correct. the secret is "amazing graphic skills."
most css zen garden sites look fabulous but not very useful for the handicaps and internet newbies.
my favorite is bugs by Zohar Arad: http://csszengarden.com/?cssfile=/157/157.css&page=0
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Megan posted this at 14:20—24th March 2005.
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But that's the point. The point is to show what can be done with CSS by graphic designers. It's about showing the range of abilities of CSS, although I agree that most of them rely pretty heavily on images. That's graphic designers for you though
I wouldn't necessarily assume that they're not accessible though...
Megan
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dk01 posted this at 16:56—24th March 2005.
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As long as you have good alt tags and such then it really shouldn't be a big deal. I think it would be interesting if there was an easier way for web developers to check how disabled people would see/hear our website. I know validation helps this (and I preach standards like its my job
) but we can't always be sure that all the css hacks and things going around don't create problems for those who are using alternate browsers. If anyone has anything on this then please send it my way.
-dk
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Megan posted this at 17:07—24th March 2005.
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Opera has many alternate viewing options including an accessibility layout and a small screen (PDA) view.
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Roo posted this at 20:05—24th March 2005.
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That small screen view in Opera 7 is really neat! Oh you guys have me swooning with this post, my God there is some beautiful work there, there is no way I'd be able to pick just one.
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