15 of the Best CSS Zengarden Designs
June 12, 2007 by Oli · 31 Comments 
The CSS Zengarden is a great project and helped the web standards cause. Today I’m going to be taking a look back over the hundreds of submissions and choose some of my favorites …
Pinups – Emilano Pennisi
Obsequience – Pierce Gleeson
ParAvion – Emilano Pennisi
Invasion of the Body Switchers – Andy Clarke
The Final Ending – Ray Henry
Some Leafs – Michael Tupy
Burnt Offering – Jonny Blair
Austrian’s Dark Side – Rene Grassegger
Revolution! – David Hellsing
Edo and Tokyo – Daisuke Sato
Corporate Zenworks – Derek Hansen
Oceans Apart – Ryan Sims
Start Listening – Liz Lubowitz
This is Cereal – Shaun Inman
si6 – Shaun Inman
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No Retro Theater (http://www.csszengarden.com/?cssfile=202/202.css)?
Amazing work! I thought it would be hard to top the original selection but these blow them out of the water!
I went through every design on the site!
Link us to the ones you like best then ?
Don’t feed the trolls. It’s OK for different people to like different sites. That’s what makes us…DIFFERENT.
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Isn’t the whole point of CSS to allow one to change the presentation layer without regard to the source, whether that is static HTML or HTML that is dynamically generated on the server through some mechanism such as PHP or ASP? Unfortunately the majority of accepted official designs at the CSS Zen Garden fail miserably in this regard because most renditions require all manner of custom images.
Whether one agrees or disagrees as to the applicability of the individual designs with reference to their usability versus their artistic content, IMO the CSS Zen Garden fails miserably to promote the use of CSS as the layout control method due to the requirement for the number of custom elements.
I guess it is all a matter of opinion. However, I do agree that there are other designs on that site that are much better than the ones on this post.
@Ecclaim, you couldn’t be more incorrect. Clearly the static HTML of the CSS Zen Garden is easily changed without regard to the source (yes, including those custom images). The images are specified with the valid, standards-based background-image CSS property.
Come on, Ecclaim. Let’s not make it harder than it is. The only thing that’s failing miserably is your understanding of CSS’s flexibility.
Ecclaim’s an idiot.
That is the best selection of designs I have ever seen, bar none!
Time to crawl back under my rock…
Nice and fresh!
Pretty, but how is image replacement and even replacing the textual content of the document with other text in the images a good proof of concept that CSS is a great technology? Most of these don’t scale when you resize the font and don’t allow for other text than the one provided. The idea of the Zen Garden was that CSS is flexible and that CSS can be pretty. Somewhere along the line we lost the first part.
css zengarden is a very good platform to show one’s CSS skills
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I love CSS Zen Garden. I’m learning CSS myself and it’s great for inspiration. You’ve picked some great designs here. I like the top one best.
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They are very nice sites, good use of css
Wow! Nice selection… I’ve send my own CSS, but they need one month to publish… You can see a preview here http://www.unaigarmendia.com/zen
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I think it is a real pity that you could not showcase some of the good CSS-based designs on ZenGarden. All of the ones you listed, and most of the designs acress the board, are nothing more than a demonstration of nice typography within Photoshop!
I think it is probably about time someone started a ‘real ZenGarden’.
wow!all the css templates are very nice!thanks!