Web How-To: Sophisticated Web Design, Simply
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Frustrations over the time and effort designers wasted to work around browser irregularities inspired groups like the Web Standards Project to promote standards approved by the World Wide Web Consortium.
But standards are, well, standard. Their implementations can become repetitious, dull — and who wants that? Then Dave Shea created the CSS Zen Garden to prove by example that the same base HTML can look wildly different, depending on how designers manipulate the CSS style sheet and accompanying images.
The results were so beautiful and instructive that they spawned a book, The Zen of CSS Design. In this excerpt from the book, you’ll see how Patrick H. Lauke combined simple CSS and gorgeous black-and-white photographs of found objects for a stunning Web site.
We’ve posted this excerpt as a PDF file. To open the PDF file in your Web browser, click “Zen CSS.” You can also download the PDF to your machine for later viewing.
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Pages 224-229 excerpted from “The Zen of CSS Design: Visual Enlightenment for the Web” by Dave Shea and Molly E. Holzschlag. Copyright © 2005. Used with the permission of Pearson Education, Inc. and New Riders.
This article was last modified on January 18, 2024
This article was first published on March 30, 2005
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