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The CSS Zen Garden is a World Wide Web development resource. A CSS Framework is a pre-prepared library that is meant to allow for easier more Standards-compliant styling of a Webpage using the CSSTidy is an Open source Cascading Style Sheets Parser and optimiser written by Florian Schmitz Tableless web design (or tableless web layout) is a method of Web design and development without using HTML tables for Page layout The World Wide Web (commonly shortened to the Web) is a system of interlinked Hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. Web development is a broad term for any activity related to developing a Web site for the World Wide Web or an Intranet. The goal of the site is to showcase what is possible with CSS-based design. Style sheets contributed by graphic designers from around the world are used to change the visual presentation of a single HTML file, producing hundreds of different designs. The term graphic design can refer to a number of artistic and professional disciplines which focus on visual communication and presentation HTML, an initialism of HyperText Markup Language, is the predominant Markup language for Web pages It provides a means to describe the structure Aside from reference to an external CSS file, the HTML markup itself never changes. All visual differences are the result of the CSS (and supporting imagery). The site has been translated into multiple languages.
When it launched in April of 2003, it contained a mere five designs.
In February 2005, The Zen of CSS Design (Peachpit Press) was published by CSS Zen Garden creator Dave Shea and web designer Molly Holzschlag. Dave Shea is a Canadian Web designer, and Author of The Zen of CSS Design Visual Enlightenment for the Web. Molly E Holzschlag (born 1963 is a Lecturer and Author of over 35 books related to Web design and markup. The book is based on 36 designs featured at the Zen Garden site.
CSS Zen Garden has inspired similar sites in other languages, like Proyecto Camaleon in Spanish and CSS Zen Sentiero in Italian. Italian ( or lingua italiana) is a Romance language spoken by about 63 million people as a First language, primarily in Italy.
"The Garden" itself was inspired, according to Shea, by an experiment by Chris Casciano called Daily CSS Fun, and a CSS-related contest from HotBot. HotBot was one of the early Internet Search engines and was launched in May 1996 as a service of Wired Magazine.
External links
- CSS Zen Garden
- CSS Zen Garden 'All Designs' List (Access to hundreds of archived designs submitted to the site)
- mezzoblue (Creator Dave Shea's weblog on web design issues)
- Camaleon Project (in Spanish)
- CSS Zen Sentiero (in Italian)
- PI CSS (in Spanish)
- css Zen Garden; The Road to Misconception Criticism of css Zen Garden
- Geocities 1996 Zen Garden
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