Homage to The CSS Zen Garden and the book that was a truly great co-author experience with Dave Shea. I learned so much from him and all the designers. Such progress for a declarative, meaningful, semantic, beautifully crafted #webdesign great years of optimism for us all it was.

Jun 6, 2019 · 2:52 PM UTC

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Used that very book in the first class I ever taught for @UofDenver!
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I for one am very honored :D
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The importance of the CSS Zen Garden is that it encouraged many of us to push the limits of CSS which still was quite uncharted ground at the time and in turn become better web designers/developers. Newer generations maybe won't quite understand how revolutionary that was.
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That's a very good point and why I think we really need podcasts like Jenn's Web Ahead and the offshoot with @meyerweb the Web Behind. We need a master text for schools. We need to know how to solve problems that still exist even in this Framework world without the Cascade. SMH!
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I never owned the book, but LOVED the web site. Here's what I had to say about it way back in 2006! allthepages.org/archives/200…
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We worked with a number of the designers to show how they did certain design techniques. Menus, better font use, it was a CSS jump ahead and do it now that we had IE more on track (ha, my one personal pride was IE and MS via WaSP. Buh-bye IE, hello Chrome monoculture (I like Tor)
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I bought at least 5 copies of that book. Used it to evangelize Web Standards to F500 executives throughout New York. Had to keep buying copies because developers who borrowed it never wanted to give it back!!! A truly influential Web 1.0 text.
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Aww. Miss those days.
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Mine too! Not anymore though.