This is our section for exploring traditional website design techniques, mostly CSS, positioning (CSS-P), and work with images. The fact that these techniques are now "traditional" among designers is a tribute to www.CssZenGarden.com and those who traveled along similar paths. What started as a branch of best practices that sought to meld good coding with beautiful web design, has transformed the internet. Early adopters of these techniques have become acknowledged experts in the design field from the Zen Garden gurus Dave Shea & Molly Holzschlag to followers like www.SitePoint.com and crew: Kevin Yank, Jason Beaird, Cameron Adams, etc. They've developed amazing techniques in the holy trinity of front end development - XHTML, CSS, & Javascript. Almost more importantly they've been instrumental in consolidating this work and the work of others, identifying best practices, and championing / publicizing them to the world.
While HTML and CSS are fundamentally based on visual rectangular blocks, these designers have pioneered all manner of elegant workarounds to create gorgeous sites that craft the illusion of having transcended these limitations. While certain technologies, Flash foremost, promise the ability to shatter these walls entirely, they fail to meet important fundamentals of good web design from accessibility to SEO to web standards that the design gurus have made important cornerstones in best practices. That's why they lead the field and in large part have remolded the internet in their own image. Like the rest of the internet, we are mere padawans to the masters, and gratefully acknowledge our debt.