''The Zen of CSS Design: Visual Enlightenment for the Web'' is a book by web designers
Dave Shea and
Molly E. Holzschlag, published in 2005.
Content
The book is based on 36 designs featured at the
CSS Zen Garden
The CSS Zen Garden is a World Wide Web Web development, development resource "built to demonstrate what can be accomplished visually through Cascading Style Sheets, CSS-based design." It launched in May 2003.
Style sheets contributed by gra ...
resource, an online showcase of
CSS
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a style sheet language used for describing the presentation of a document written in a markup language such as HTML or XML (including XML dialects such as SVG, MathML or XHTML). CSS is a cornerstone techno ...
-based design. The process that each designer took in coming up with the final design is examined in each case study.
Reception
It was reviewed favorably by freelance Web designer Karen Morrill-McClure of Digital Web Magazine:
See also
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CSS
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a style sheet language used for describing the presentation of a document written in a markup language such as HTML or XML (including XML dialects such as SVG, MathML or XHTML). CSS is a cornerstone techno ...
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Zen
Zen ( zh, t=禪, p=Chán; ja, text= 禅, translit=zen; ko, text=선, translit=Seon; vi, text=Thiền) is a school of Mahayana Buddhism that originated in China during the Tang dynasty, known as the Chan School (''Chánzong'' 禪宗), and ...
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CSS Zen Garden
The CSS Zen Garden is a World Wide Web Web development, development resource "built to demonstrate what can be accomplished visually through Cascading Style Sheets, CSS-based design." It launched in May 2003.
Style sheets contributed by gra ...
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Web design
Web design encompasses many different skills and disciplines in the production and maintenance of websites. The different areas of web design include web graphic design; user interface design (UI design); authoring, including standardised code an ...
References
External links
CSS Zen Garden
Cascading Style Sheets
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