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- essjay, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10I think you've got a fundamental misunderstanding of how CSSZenGarden is supposed to work. They have a perfectly semantic web page that you have to style using pure CSS. By fitting the design, I assume they mean fitting the design of_the_data, which is what _all_ good web designs should do. You don't design a site's layout and then try and fit the data in it, you do it the other way round. Wake up and smell the content - style separation.
- Promantarius, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Do you have any particular current reason for hating CSSZenGarden or is it something they've made better already? Blind hatred of something isn't good, and I don't see what's so bad about the site (apart from the horrid user submissions of course, that theatre one was horrible.) You can't have everything, if you liked the rest of the article you could just digg it then comment and point out the flaws in CSSZenGarden instead of just saying the equivalent of "it sucks."
- MrSunshine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8You can have it much easier:
http://www.cssshowcase.com/
CSS Showcase is a CSS showcase site for CSS showcase sites. - Tredici, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I'm a big fan of Web Creme, specifically its filter by color usage option. I'm surprised to've not seen it high in the list, let alone even in it.
- tobbe303, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I realize this is a list of sites producing their own content, but I've just got to mention http://www.fascination.se/ for those looking for web-related inspiration - it aggregates info from well known sites and gives you a quick overview over what's happening in the CSS/design/mark-up world right now.
- iluvhatemail, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4seriously, this is like having a top 10 list of top 10 lists. The link MrSunshine provided typically ends up in the comments of every story related to css websites. Most of them are nearly identical now anyways.
- kirsten99, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3What I like to see are sites that have thumbnails in their RSS feed with a single click to a working site. This makes it much easier to scan sites of interest. A number of sites don't have any thumbnail in the feed, first click gets you to the gallery site and then another click gets you to the actual site.
- goosnargh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Same here. Would be good to see the other sites add the colour filter, maybe even improve on it.
http://www.webcreme.com/ - dylanparry, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@essjay:
Actually they don't have a "perfectly sematic web page". What they have is a page that, at first glance, appears to be semantically marked-up, but on closer inspection is littered with redundant span elements that were added in purely for the use of CSS and don't add any semantic meaning. For example, every paragraph has a span element enclosing the text content, instead of being used for its intended purpose (ie. marking up *bits* of text that have a different meaning to the rest of the content, such as highlighting a real name etc).
That said, there are some lovely designs on CSSZenGarden, but I wouldn't recommend copying their HTML code. - Alexx3k, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Hehe one of my websites is in one of those screenshots (on cssremix) =D
CSS galleries are an endless source of inspiration - the only downside of them is that they sometimes inspire designers all into a similar direction - which sometimes you can see with various blog layouts. - webzyne, on 10/26/2007, -0/+2http://www.designsnack.com - A web design showcase that the members control, kinda like Digg.
- CRasH180, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Thank you to the three other comments, from onkelcommy, tobbe303, and MrSunshine, with some alternative sites. One person's top ten is another person's worst ten. I look at all sites for the content and the usefulness of the information.
- inactive, on 01/12/2008, -0/+2That's great find
http://www.nasavo.com
http://www.nasavo.com/acne
http://www.nasavo.com/forex
http://car.nasavo.com
http://www.jurugan.com
http://health.jurugan.com
http://www.vrid.net
http://laptop.vrid.net
http://projector.vrid.net
http://hyip.ej.am
http://car.ej.am - inactive, on 09/14/2008, -0/+2http://tophomemortgageloan.com
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http://tophomemortgageloan.com - pveltrent, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I like http://www.styleboost.com a lot
- statix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2wait. these guys showcased sites that showcase other sites? pretty soon well need a site that showcases sites that showcases other css showcasers...
- IceFury, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1There is also www.e-motionaldesign.com - in my opinion better than many others from the list...
- SenyWD, on 02/24/2009, -0/+1Download free standards compliant CSS layouts: http://www.free-css-layouts.com
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1A list with 50 css galleries: http://digg.com/design/50_CSS_Showcase_Websites
- onkelcommy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Nice list but also check out http://www.screenalicious.com with more than 5400 screen shots of very nice web designs.
- paydayin, on 09/25/2008, -0/+1http://www.designidol.com
- IceFury, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1http://www.e-motionaldesign.com
Sorry for mistake - cssstars, on 12/29/2008, -0/+1Hi
i have another one http://www.cssstars.com
check it - himblogger, on 11/18/2008, -0/+1A web 2.0 standards CSS Designs Gallery
http://www.csshook.com - nihalthainua, on 02/19/2009, -0/+1I like this one also
www.dzinemart.com - gdape, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1http://www.cssinsert.com/ over 100 CSS galleries
- TruSighT, on 07/14/2008, -0/+1http://topcss.stumbleupon.com provides the most complete list of all CSS Galleries. There are 441 CSS Galleries listed.
Enjoy!!
Best Regards
TruSighT - ale3006, on 08/27/2008, -0/+1I realize CSS Gallery --> http://www.urbantrash.net/cssgallery
I hope you'll like it - himblogger, on 11/18/2008, -0/+1I like
http://www.csshook.com
a lot - TruSighT, on 04/26/2009, -0/+0It is a bold title top 10. As any good artist knows, to truly keep tabs on what hot and whats not in web design, you never have enough examples. Here are four more that didn't make the top 10. http://cssgallery.com , http://cssgallery.us , http://bestcss.com and csshowdown.com. http://cssgallery.com alone have over 500 CSS galleries listed in its gallery.
- disgogo1, on 05/09/2009, -0/+0Hi,
Trying to get through those 500+ galleries. Css luxury aim to establish the biggest database of well designed sites until 25th December. Until then we must post 5ooo websites (that means around 24 sites/day ), if we’ll not succed the website will be closed.
Every 2 months the site will get an enhancement. The first one will be on 1st July.
All the best, - adama80, on 05/20/2009, -0/+0another one, for german sites http://www.cssarena.de
- canarygraphics, on 06/02/2009, -0/+0hi:)
another one
http://csssmoothoperator.com/ - cucumucu, on 09/08/2009, -0/+0Visit this link for a complete list:
http://www.stonesouptech.com/blog/2009/09/a-more-c ... - q3ctf4, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Great List. There are some real gems in there.
- Coronagold, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2Whoop-de-*****-doo. I've seen advertisements more interesting than those sites.
- soracross, on 10/12/2007, -16/+4a nice list ^.^
- canewediggit, on 10/12/2007, -15/+3thanks! was just looking for a designer. this will come in handy.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -19/+4haha, my site is featured on two of the screen shots /end bragging
- geekitechture, on 10/12/2007, -32/+4>CSSZenGarden is one of the first in it's class and showcases talent through customizing stylesheets to fit the site's design.
Why would anyone want to create CSS that fits "the site's design?" How is that contributing to any originality on the Web or expressing your own personality through your site's design?
That said (and God how I hate CSSZen Garden) the rest of the list is a good resource for CSS. If not for the unfortunate reference to CSSZenGarden I would Digg it.
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