Usually at the beginning of the semester we discus what we look forward to learning.. well they say to know where you're going, you need to know where you came from. This is a design assignment that I really enjoyed from third year, first semester - CSS Zen Garden The Beauty in CSS Design. The point of the Zen Garden is to inspire and encourage participation in the design element of web design. The code remains the same, the only thing that has changed is the external .css file.
Requirements
The css Zen Garden is about functional, practical CSS and not the latest bleeding-edge tricks viewable by 2% of the browsing public. The only real requirement we have is that your CSS validates.
Unfortunately, designing this way highlights the flaws in the various implementations of CSS. Different browsers display differently, even completely valid CSS at times, and this becomes maddening when a fix for one leads to breakage in another. View the Resources page for information on some of the fixes available. Full browser compliance is still sometimes a pipe dream, and we do not expect you to come up with pixel-perfect code across every platform. But do test in as many as you can. If your design doesn’t work in at least IE5+/Win and Mozilla (run by over 90% of the population), chances are we won’t accept it.
We ask that you submit original artwork. Please respect copyright laws. Please keep objectionable material to a minimum; tasteful nudity is acceptable, outright pornography will be rejected.
This is a learning exercise as well as a demonstration. You retain full copyright on your graphics (with limited exceptions, see submission guidelines), but we ask you release your CSSunder a Creative Commons license identical to the one on this site so that others may learn from your work.
Bandwidth graciously donated by mediatemple. Now available: Zen Garden, the book.
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