If you really want to see great examples of CSS styling, the "CSS Zen Garden" (
https://www.csszengarden.com) is a great site where every example is the exact same HTML with different CSS.
I learned a ton from those designs back when it was new.
A few particularly interesting (to me) examples:
Comics style:
https://csszengarden.com/099/
Horizontal layout:
https://csszengarden.com/058/
Post Office Style:
https://csszengarden.com/052/
On 6/26/25 07:37, Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> Steve,
>
> I can work with CSS however I feel like I do not know as much as I should/would like to. Enjoyed browsing a few of you pages.
>
> Keith
>
> On 2025-06-25 19:03, Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss wrote:
>> On Wed, 25 Jun 2025 16:24:27 -0700
>> "Snyder, Alexander J via PLUG-discuss"
>> <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>>
>>> HTML was my first language, circa 1999.
>>>
>>> Fond memories. If it's just HTML, and no complicated server side
>>> processing ..... What do you need done, that the billion HTML website
>>> builder sites (eg: Wix etc, etc) can't do?
>>
>> * Web site builders can't build w3c compliant HTML, so it's likely
>> they'll render very differently on different browsers.
>>
>> * If you switch builders, its very hard to bring your old work with
>> you. As your current builder gets updated, changes to your website
>> get harder and harder.
>>
>> * If your builder uses "everything plus kitchen sink" CSS files or
>> stores static content in databases, it's going to be slow, even with
>> intercontinental caching (CDN -- Content Delivery Network).
>>
>> * It's amazing how easy HTML and CSS are if approached the right way.
>> See https://troubleshooters.com/web/ for details. To do most websites
>> you need only a tiny subset of what's contained there.
>>
>>
>> Steve
>>
>> Steve Litt
>> Spring 2023 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful
>> Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques
>>
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