I envy talented designers for their ability to create useful beauty and make it look easy. Anybody who's attempted to create (or adapt) a good website design knows I'm right. Most people have not tried, and so have no idea how elusive beautiful website design really is.
I've also developed an appreciation for minimalist html code. Elegant simplicity requires a certain genius, but it is always delightful. Oh, and it doesn't break nearly as much, it's easier for search engines to index, and it loads faster.
So, what's got me thinking about good visual web design and minimalist code? A site I came across that's devoted to promoting the adoption of cascading style sheets, or CSS. CSS lets you control every aspect of the appearance of your website from a single page of code. Want to change all the fonts on your 1,000-page site? 15 seconds to edit and save your CSS file and you're done.
Every CSS booster I've come across has been focused on the structural benefits of CSS, mainly the ability to abolish tables as the primary layout crutch of legions of website builders. No tables? I can hear the yawns from here. zzzzzz....
This site, called css Zen Garden: The Beauty in CSS Design, is devoted to showcasing what designers can really do with CSS. Some of it is quite breathtaking.
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