That site pretty much put me on the open-standards side of web development. I was a huge Flash nut.
CSS Zen Garden relaunched
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#32In the old days, this was one of my task to ask candidates that I interview, "Can you show-n-tell a CSS Zen Garden Design."
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#33I love CSS Zen Garden, but it seems like no new content has been added with this "relaunch." Maybe one or two designs at most.
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#34Am I the only one that finds the site slow in the scrolling and effects? I'm using Firefox 22 on a Macbook Air from 2012.
Probably. Except for the two most recent designs (the new default and "Robot Boy"), the designs are aimed at something more along the lines of Firefox 1.0, Netscape 6, IE6 and whatever version of Safari was contemporary with them, running on a Pentium III/4 with under a gig of RAM. I'm having no trouble with either of the new designs using an Atom-based Win7 netbook and Chrome 28.
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not really there to demonstrate viable page designs, it's to show the flexibility that CSS allows.
sure I get that ... it's really really cool for that. great for finding out how to do X by example. Just too bad the examples are so ugly
Well that's a very subjective statement. So easy to criticize when there's no objective standard. I think a more useful observation would be that most of the designs are dominated by one or more completely non-interactive visual elements. Function follows form, which nowadays annoys users more than simple lack of artistry or visual appeal. I'll say that from my own subjective POV, most of the designs are interesting or beautiful in some way; in the sense of a painting if not a website.
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#36Yay! Zen Garden. 059 reporting in.
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#37Awesome...I can't remember the last time I've visited this site...but I can't remember a resource on CSS that I ever read before this one... Even though it's "just CSS"...I think CSS Zen Garden, and other sites like it, were absolutely critical to my web development career. Not because I specialized in web design, but because it demonstrated that CSS was cool ...and not just some other syntax to learn (which, when yo…
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#38I love CSS Zen Garden, but it seems like no new content has been added with this "relaunch." Maybe one or two designs at most.
Didn't it just relaunch? I imagine many people even now are furiously coding their submissions.
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#39Heading fonts not so pretty on Windows + Chrome.
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's amazing the level of nostalgia produced by looking at some of the old designs, like Orchid Beauty[0] and Under the Sea[1]. [0] http://www.csszengarden.com/?cssfile=/211/211.css [1] http://www.csszengarden.com/?cssfile=/213/213.css
I'm not nostalgic about the old, low-resolution monitors though. The content in those design fits into 630/700 pixel wide columns and the 11 pixel text in Orchid Beauty looks tiny on my screen!
Aside: Why do people use px for text and not pt? pt seems like it'd be much more portable.