My favourite website
Feb. 24th, 2005 10:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
triskellianI 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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Date: 2005-02-24 02:02 pm (UTC)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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Date: 2005-02-24 02:56 pm (UTC)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.