Archive for April 1st, 2004
CSS Design
Thursday, April 1st, 2004
Mezzoblue- Hi-Fi Design with CSS - design inspiration for today.
I made this site design using CSS when I was just on the virge of discovery of its power and beauty, and frankly, I wasn’t very successful at my aim — I wanted to make a simple, light design with the focus on a single thematic element, mainly the rotating image at the top. But it’s too cluttered, and there isn’t true separation of content and design. Anyway.
CSS is really where web design is going. It’s truly amazing how everything makes sense contextually in a well-designed CSS-based site. The content is completely separate from the design, making design changes, making browser incompatabilities, and accessibility completely trivial. They’re automatic if you do it right. It’s beautiful.
I love sharing this epiphany with people, like my fellow designers on the Cal Band comp comm, where our initial meeting went on for 4 hours after I showed everyone the Zen Garden, and our entire concept of design itself changed. I’ve learned a lot designing for the new Cal Band web site, which will be up come April 17th, and I do believe that I am becoming a better designer with each project.
From the article above — “If you?re a designer who?s been using [CSS] for a while, uh, where?s your Zen Garden design, huh? I?m waiting.” That is one of my ultimate goals. To design something worthy of the garden. I think that if I had the time, I could do it right now. It might take me a few tries, but man it would be fun. Maybe I should redo this site first. It needs to be the main trisweb.com site first, integrated with the rest of the site, which just needs to be rethought entirely. I think I’ll make that my summer project. Though really I should be doing things for cash instead.
Ha, I act like there are serious web designers reading my little weblog. Well, maybe someday (no offense if you’re a serious web designer). ::