CSS Not-Quite-Zen Yet

The above design (and site it links to) is my work-in-progress for the CSS Zen Garden website. It is a major challenge but is definitely improving my coding and design skills. I have no illusions that this will end up being picked as an official design on the site, but it is a lot of fun to work on and has mucho educational value.

It is also important, as the site stresses, to follow web standards and separate content from presentation, and create flexible, accessible websites that are somewhat future-proof.

Check out the website to see some of the incredible designs other people have made. And keep checking back for my progress on this design. At some point, I will post an in-depth article about my process designing and coding this stuff, so be looking for that. I would also love some feedback as things continue to change. There’s still a long way to go before this is finished, so don’t hold back the comments. (P.S. I know this design looks HORRIBLE in IE6 right now because the PNG images don’t display with Alpha transparency. This will change soon, honest. In the meantime, I think you might want to Get Firefox).

Thanks, and again, have the happiest of happy holidays.

Peace exists. Find it.