I've been whipping up simple html/css/Javascript sites lately as a hobby. It's been fun to try to challenge myself to get creative by making lots of different sites, and making new sites to try out different ideas.
Can you guys recommend any sites in particular that are examples of fun / creative / beautiful html/css sites?
For instance, I got into the animations part of css / javascript and am sure there have been some really cool sites people have made.
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Is a website built completely on HTML, CSS and JS enough?
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Study or use Paul Irish's HTML 5 Boilerplate templates for modern, practical front end code: http://html5boilerplate.com/. Docs.
The boilerplate contains stuff like .htaccess for server-side optimization, inclusion of an ie6 png fixing script, inclusion of html5-enabling script for older browsers, and good all around techniques.
Some "classic" links:
- A List Apart: A list/magazine (because it existed before the term "blog" was generalized) with articles about every aspect of web design including semantic HTML and proper CSS use (featuring one of the articles that started the movement against table-based design).
- CSS Zen Garden: Created to show the designers:
- That you can create very good designs without tables
- That with a proper HTML layout you can change the design of your site touching only CSS and images (i.e. without having to change the HTML layout).
CSS Zen Garden has several of the most impressive and beautiful designs I have seen, definitely you should check it.
Edit: some examples as requested:
- Elastic lawn: The boxes grow with the text size, even if you don't use the zoom feature of recent browsers. That's useful if you care about the people that use big fonts in Windows.
- Retro Theather: Original use of absolute positioned elements (don't work in IE6).
- Door to my garden: Interesting effect using a fixed background.
- New Groove: An example of how to use decorative images for filling the leftover right space at higher window sizes.
- Kyoto Forest, Ballade, 15 Petals, Burning, Egyptian Dawn, Love is the air, etc: Just like them.
Note that one of the points of CSS Zen Garden is that all the designs use exactly the same HTML layout, only the CSS and the background images are changed.