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triskellian) wrote2005-02-24 10:43 am
triskellian) wrote2005-02-24 10:43 am
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My favourite website
I don't really do 'favourite' things for most categories of thing, but it occured to me yesterday that I do have a favourite website: CSS Zen Garden.
It's not the site I visit most often (that's LJ), or the one I find most directly useful (Google), but it's my favourite. It's a piece of glorious CSS evangelism, demonstrating what's possible with CSS-based web design. It's effectively a one-page site, with many different stylesheets, all working on exactly the same static HTML document, and achieving wildly different layout effects. The home page remains the same, but there's an often-changing selection of user-submitted stylesheets, of which my current favourite is Museum (remember, that's exactly the same HTML as the homepage I linked above - it's just the stylesheet that's different). I go back to it over and over, looking at favourite designs, getting ideas from the CSS, and being re-enthused about the whole thing, and it gives me so much joy that I want to share it with you ;-)
Now, repay the favour. What's your favourite website, and why?
It's not the site I visit most often (that's LJ), or the one I find most directly useful (Google), but it's my favourite. It's a piece of glorious CSS evangelism, demonstrating what's possible with CSS-based web design. It's effectively a one-page site, with many different stylesheets, all working on exactly the same static HTML document, and achieving wildly different layout effects. The home page remains the same, but there's an often-changing selection of user-submitted stylesheets, of which my current favourite is Museum (remember, that's exactly the same HTML as the homepage I linked above - it's just the stylesheet that's different). I go back to it over and over, looking at favourite designs, getting ideas from the CSS, and being re-enthused about the whole thing, and it gives me so much joy that I want to share it with you ;-)
Now, repay the favour. What's your favourite website, and why?
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(I have to make sites that work in NN4, for similar reasons. It makes me cry.)
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It's a lie - there are hundreds of different versions, each of which has a different bit at the top which includes the relevant stylesheet. But the
bodyelement of each page is identical except for the href of the link to the stylesheet itself, so they're quite close to their claim.You could make them all the same by specifying every stylesheet in link tags in the html, and then using an HTTP header to indicate which is the preferred style. Of course that would be pretty ugly because it could get to be a very long list, but unfortunately W3C did not provide us with a standard for referencing stylesheets other than in the HTML itself. Shower of bastards. And the link to the stylesheet might still be impossible.
My favourite website is probably http://www.wikipedia.org. They're also somewhat hepped up on CSS.
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Wikipedia's one of my favourites, too. In fact, it's probably the best combination of 'favourite' and 'directly useful', cos it's more of a favourite than Google, and more directly useful than CSSZG.
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Ooh, it turns out that isn't true. You can do it, but only using imaginary versions of HTTP: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/present/styles.html#h-14.6
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Thanks for that link; it's awesome.
And exactly what I need for a project I am working on right now.
(templates)
One of my favourite sites is http://www.beautifuldreamscompany.net.
It's done by a good friend of mine, and he changes his design quite regularly or adds new stuff, so it is always interesting.
I also like this one, for laughs:
http://rinkworks.com/stupid/
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Yeah, I can see that :)
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Anyway, I've just discovered that apparently my job never requires me to communicate technical information to non-technical people, so I thought I'd bone up on ways to prove that's not true. Or something.
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Which is why such sites as rinkworks exist. To prove to the technical people that the non-technical people are wrong. Of course, the problem is that the non-technical people will never see why it's funny, and never read (and learn) from it.
God, I'm going OT in my own journal
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My favourite website is Wikipedia too, but since
So, since the idea is to introduce people to cool things they might not have seen, I nominate: The Internet Ray-Tracing Competition ! Amazing techniques for graphics geeks combined with eye candy for everyone.
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Well, yes. I'm more interested in claiming the site as a whole - rather than individual pages - as a triumph of CSS. And sadly it does show up that, although I now understand most of how the effects at CSSZG* are achieved, I'm just not enough of an artist to do anything of that standard :-(
*Hmm. Interesting. I seem to mentally pronounce the Z in those those initials as 'zee' rather than 'zed'.
And thanks for the link. I'll check it out later.
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