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CSS Zen Garden

May 8, 2003 at 7:05 pm · Filed under Web

Simon Willison points a incredibly cool CSS site demonstrating the use of this technology to create beautiful and compelling sites. The site uses the same HTML document and applies five different CSS stylesheets to it that completely change the way the site is displayed.

I’d just make one suggestion to the site creator, tough. He could have named the stylesheets in the document to allow Mozilla users to change them with just one menu click. Anyway, the site is certainly worth a visit and some study.

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Dave S. said,

May 9, 2003 @ 1:19 pm

Thanks for the link and kind words, Ronaldo!

The way the site is setup right now, the stylesheets are loaded in one at a time, rather than as a list of alternate styles for the same page. I addressed that in the FAQ, http://www.mezzoblue.com/zengarden/faq.asp - and for the same reason that I can’t switch styles with Javascript, I can’t use Mozilla’s default switching.

I’d have liked to have done it that way, but it was just too impractical. Good thinking though!

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Ronaldo said,

May 9, 2003 @ 1:51 pm

Dave,

I should be the one thanking you for visiting and leaving a comment. :-) Your CSS site is truly interesting and beautiful. I have a lot of friends who are designers and I’ve sent the link to them so that they can see that it’s possible to create a technologically clean site with a cool design. I have been trying to persuade many of them for a long time now, and your site will make a great case.

About stylesheet automatic switching, I was just thinking of quickly checking the different styles in Mozilla but I hadn’t checked the FAQ so I didn’t see your explanation. I can see your point now.

Thanks for your visit. :-)

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