CSS Zen Garden, Geocities webmaster style
 

Seen on Zeldman; this is too funny:

CSS Zen Garden, Geocities webmaster style

(For all of you who see this and think: "Wow! That's waaay kewl!": No. Don't.)

It's great innit :) So well observed ..

:rolleyes: after hitting disable->disable styles to keep myself from vomiting, I at least got something presentable... I think it's really better off with the 'unsightly' unstyled content.

maybe I'm just being mean?

I do appreciate that even beginners are starting to apply web and accessibility standards to their pages, though...

what a great layout...eyecatching :rolleyes:

.....maybe you're just not getting that it's a joke :D

Fantastic site, that's really made my day :thumbsup:

Gary

nope, wasn't getting that. I see it now, though... I thought some poor newb decided to start a site dedicated to web standards, implementing them in the worst ways possible to show how great they were. Definetely funny after figuring out that I was looking at it the wrong way :thumbsup:

Well you could put it like that... :p

Too true....like one minute you see the real Zen Garden - a beauty in it's own right then you see a spin off of it that is highly amateur-ish *gulp* :eek:

Oh sod... Do I still have Comic Sans MS installed?

heh, the funny thing is that they have almost identical XHTML code and text, just a different stylesheet applied (the only diff in the xhtml is a few links).

I didn't notice earlier because I didn't feel like comparing the two...

Well true...thats something I noticed - however it's still a shock seeing the real zen garden compared to this amateur piece of work:P

The guy is making a good point though;

http://brucelawson.co.uk/index.htm#garden

Too true :D

Ha! I had a feeling that design would make use of the infamous Comic Sans...
Classic design, it reminds me of '96 :D

More then standards
 

Goes to show that use of standards, semantic markup and CSS alone does not guarantee that a site will look good, too.

I was thinking: anyone for a "CSS Zany Garden" contest? Using the original markup and CSS to create a really awful design? Although it would be hard to top the original... :eek: