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Cool Blog Design I dig Dunstan Orchard's blog theme. I especially like his comment alert system and right-nav tabs (main, b-marks, b-roll). There some inspiring stuff here - adding a similar comment alert system and theme are on my Roller wishlist. Now if I could just find time to do them...

Later: Some more cool designs. Posted in Roller at Feb 25 2004, 02:55:44 PM MST 6 Comments

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Have you been sniffing around my blogroll? Nice sites one and all (Dunstans is a special favorite - the masthead actually changes to reflect real-time weather changes in the UK). I can also suggest the CSS Zen Garden - one piece of XHTML, 90+ CSS designs (all beautifully done) to really show the power of CSS. http://www.csszengarden.com/

Posted by Sam Newman on February 26, 2004 at 05:30 AM MST #

Yeah - I've seen the CSS Zen Garden and actually started a Roller Theme based on it - allowing the reader to choose any of the stylesheets available. I never found the time to finish it - maybe someday.

This morning, I found a listing of well-designed weblogs (with screenshots).

Posted by Matt Raible on February 26, 2004 at 09:32 AM MST #

Here is the "Zen Garden" theme - obviously it still needs a lot of work. It does allow you to switch stylesheets - that's about it.

Posted by Matt Raible on February 26, 2004 at 09:48 AM MST #

I love the CSS Zen Garden site. Was going to borrow the main Zen Garden CSS design myself, but the images are copyrighted according to the site, at least the last time I checked.

Posted by James Chochlinski on February 26, 2004 at 09:59 AM MST #

Yes, the CSS Zen Garden site is sweet, I always show it to people to demonstrate the power of CSS. Has anyone ever used css positioning in a java application? Seems like it could be used instead of tiles or something of the sort. But then again, what percentage of browsers does positioning work on?

Posted by Chris Blackburn on February 26, 2004 at 10:02 AM MST #

Chris - I tend to use Tiles with CSS, where my baseLayout.jsp doesn't really have much in it but a couple of divs. That way, to change the entire look-n-feel of the site, I could use a different CSS file. Using Tiles is nice because you could always change the ordering of your divs and such in baseLayout.jsp - or switch to a table layout for older browsers (ugh).

Posted by Matt Raible on February 26, 2004 at 10:05 AM MST #

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