Comments on: Where to find further showcases of web2.0-sites?

Question: Where to find further showcases of web2.0-sites?

volandmast — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 10:22:13 -0800

CSS is gradually becoming more and more popular in the Web. Over the last year web-developers have created CSS Table Gallery, CSS Zen Garden, CSS Navigation Tabs Gallery, Comment Design Showcase, Typography for headlines, Form Assembly Garden, sIFR Beauty Showcase. Do you have any further suggestions?

By: boo_radley

boo_radley — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 10:31:47 -0800

A list apart? Index dot CSS also comes right to mind. It's not a "hey neat stuff woo" site, but the most orderly css reference I've found.

By: purephase

purephase — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 10:36:51 -0800

Some of those sites have been around for a lot longer than a year.

I personally like the Stylegala.

By: crickets

crickets — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 10:44:34 -0800

Sorry, I'm not answering your questoin, so flag me as noise if you like, but:

Your question is a bit odd, I think.

CSS started gaining popularity in about 2001, thanks to the efforts of people like Zeldman and the Web Standards Project. In 2003 I would have felt "CSS is gradually becoming more and more popular in the Web" was an appropriate statement.

These days it's more like "CSS has finally become the norm for web development; non-CSS-based sites are the exception."

Also, the title of your question, "Where to find further showcases of web2.0-sites?" is a completely different issue -- "Web 2.0" does not equal "CSS-based web sites".

"Web 2.0" doesn't hinge on a technology or methodology (although AJAX is popularly associated with Web 2.0 applications), it's an evolution of business and usability practices.

By: crickets

crickets — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 10:45:46 -0800

Again, sorry. I wasn't being snarky, I just didn't want fallacies to be propagated.

By: volandmast

volandmast — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 10:54:41 -0800

Oh, I am sorry, I thought I was posting a link, not posing a question. If it violates the rules, please delete my post.

By: volandmast

volandmast — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 10:56:14 -0800

crickets, thanks, I should have corrected some mistakes, I've made in the post. You are absolutely right.

By: Hildago

Hildago — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 10:57:11 -0800

Crickets is correct. There's nothing "Web 2.0" about CSS, it's pretty well established, as are the aforementioned sites.

In fact we're in the stage of its life cycle where the technology has fallen behind the design—that is to say all the coolest designs I see involve some sort of hack to make CSS do things it wasn't intended to do. Now, full cross-browser support for standards-compliant CSS would be pretty revolutionary, but that hasn't happened yet, and it doesn't look like it will until we're at least in "Web 3.0".

But to your question, here's a good resource for messing around with CSS:
Stu Nicholls' CSS Play

By: killdevil

killdevil — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 11:00:45 -0800

This question I asked last year may provide you with more good showcase sites.

By: freudianslipper

freudianslipper — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 11:51:32 -0800

I believe you may find just about everything you need from the Web Developers Handbook.

It's just such a great compiled source of links. I go there all the time for inspiration, questions, colors, fonts, just about everything.

There is a section devoted to CSS showcase/galleries, css theory, css layouts, css techniques, etc.

I'm not sure if that was what you were asking for exactly but if you were looking for resources, this is your link.

By: AmbroseChapel

AmbroseChapel — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 14:02:04 -0800

all the coolest designs I see involve some sort of hack to make CSS do things it wasn't intended to do

Could you elaborate on that? I'm not sure what you mean.

By: DrJohnEvans

DrJohnEvans — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 16:03:46 -0800

While the question is indeed a bit odd, it's wonderful to read the answers, having gone through this old thread the other day.