I’m amazed that this worked. Honestly, a bunch of graphic designers got off of their collective rumps and actually took up the challenge to show off the design elements of CSS. It reads like a geek legend – like Kibo – and I’m just amazed.

Long story short, CSS is recommended by the W3C, but nobody’s picking it up. Browser support sucks, and when the support does come about, only coders are using it. Boxy, minimalistic designs that are only using the coding aspect of CSS. Which makes sense, because they’re… well… coders. Like me.

So, Dave Shea puts out this challenge to take his HTML code and crank it up to 11 on the CSS front. And they do. There are over a hundred designs now, and all use the exact same HTML, but look completely different. Graphics, layout, style… DESIGN. This is where I’m lacking. This is the challenge I face: Moving from the coder to the designer.

Maybe being both.

This can’t help but be a good weapon against the auto-suck.