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Css Zen Garden: The Beauty in CSS Design. So What is This About? There is a continuing need to show the power of CSS. The Zen Garden aims to excite, inspire, and encourage participation. To begin, view some of the existing designs in the list. Clicking on any one will load the style sheet into this very page. The HTML remains the same, the only thing that has changed is the external CSS file. Yes, really. CSS allows complete and total control over the style of a hypertext document. Participation Strong visual design has always been our focus. You may modify the style sheet in any way you wish, but not the HTML. Download the sample HTML and CSS to work on a copy locally.

Benefits Why participate? Requirements Where possible, we would like to see mostly CSS 1 & 2 usage. Luckily, designing this way shows how well various browsers have implemented CSS by now. We ask that you submit original artwork. This is a learning exercise as well as a demonstration. By Dave Shea. Web Design/What is HTML. How many times have you heard the term HTML – or HyperText Markup Language – and pretended that you knew exactly what people were talking about while secretly wondering what it actually means? You might have even used HTML a bit already, but still not feel confident to explain what 'markup' actually is...

Well, the great news is, you've already marked-up documents in your own way ever since primary school! By the time you've finished this brief tutorial, you'll see how marking-up an HTML document is not much harder than formatting a word-processing document! After working through this activity you'll be able to: Mark-up a simple HTML document with headings (<h1>... </h1> and <h2>... Why hand-code HTML? Because learning how to use HTML properly will make you a better web designer! Creating HTML pages using Adobe DreamWeaver is kind-of like delivering a speech through a translator: although you might know exactly what you want to communicate, you can't always control the end result... HTML and CSS Tutorials, References, and Articles. HTML Primer. Web Design Resources and Tutorials - Webdesigner Depot.