[IT] CSS Zen Garden

While I was at Half Price Books last week I ran across a book called "The Zen of CSS Design". The main author, Dave Shea, is a graphic designer, and cultivator of the CSS Zen garden. What is the CSS Zen garden? It started in May 8, 2003, to as Dave puts it "change how people perceive Web design, and somewhere along the way it ended up an international phenomenon".

The site at http://www.csszengarden.com/is meant to demonstrate the visual power of CSS-based design. On the site, you can select different CSS styles which changes the entire look of the site. These are submitted by various designers around the world using the same base HTML. All the CSS style sheets on the site are also perfectly downloadable. Just type in something like:

http://csszengarden.com/209/209.css

to download the 209th style sheet. Dave also has his own website at

http://www.mezzoblue.com/

which gets updated every other month or so with a graphics or web design tip. So check it out!