Due to my lack of inspiration for the past few days, I decided to go to the one place that will inspire me and make me drop my jaw in awe, without fail. I’m talking about CSS Zen Garden, a site where you are challenged to create an entirely new design from the same HTML file; you can only change the CSS, and your design must be standard-compliant. They even complied the works in a book called, The Zen of CSS Design: Visual Enlightenment for the Web (Voices That Matter).

Here are some of my favorites, in no particular order. I opt for simple yet stunning web designs.

1. Contemporary nouveau by David Hellsing, Sweden
2. Teatime by Michaela Maria Sampl, Austria
3. LuGoZee by Viallon Pierre-Antoine, France
4. Like the Sea by Lars Daum, Germany
5. Moss by Mani Sheriar, United States
6. a Simple Sunrise by Rob Soule, United States
7. HoriZental by Clément ‘fastclemmy’ Hardouin, France
8. Radio Zen by Marc LA van den Heuvel, Netherlands
9. Lotus by Chika, Japan
10. Springtime by Boér Attila, Hungary

Of course there are a lot more beautiful designs there, but I just had to show my simple favorites. ^^

Notice anything different? No, well, never mind. It’s just me and my little quirks. After searching through the internet, it seems that my sought-after CSS pseudoclass first-word is no longer supported in CSS3 so I might as well not use it.

That is the main reason why you do not see the dropcaps in the entries anymore, but more like uppercases for the first line. *shrugs* I like change.

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It’s been a long time since I plugged anything so, here goes. Pimping.

Manga Avenue

I honestly don’t think people know how to find me on the web since Painted Wings vanished. Well, people who I am not all that close to, that is; and those I could count in one hand. So I’m not really surprised that no one finds me in my little corner of the web here.

What surprises me though, is when I am found.

Read the comment of one visitor

A parent appreciating my site? Impossible! Michan called him a fanparent, as opposed to the more common fangirl term on the web. She says it’s going to be a new fad. ^^

I didn’t really know how to reply to such a letter; if my letter will be as compelling as the comment sent. But I did reply a day later, endeavouring in my effort to do justice to it. One thing was the goal, though. To reply as sincerely and as humbly to a person- more importanly, a parent- who came to this site and make his day a little bit brighter, just as he has done for mine.