Is there anyone heard about Zen Garden? If you want to be a CSS professional, you must know Zen Garden. Zen Garden is an influential World Wide Web development resource. The goal of the site is to showcase what is possible with CSS-based design.



All visual differences are the result of the CSS. It means that you never need to change the code in any HTML markup. You only need to modify the external CSS file and the design and outlook will be totally different. This is the concept of CSS skinning.

This blog is also build with the same technique. You may try to click on the links below to see what it will change:

Style 1 Style 2 Style 3
Style 4 Style 5 Style 6

How to do that?
To build a skinnable website, you should have at least some basic understanding of CSS and XHTML. After that you need to create at least the following CSS files for your website:

1) Base CSS with simple structure
2) Advanced CSS with final structure
3) Skin CSS
4) Fonts
5) Printer Friendly CSS

What are the benefits?
Since we have both the base CSS and advanced CSS, this is good for forward and backward compatibility. By using separated CSS files, modification on website style becomes easier and faster. We can also save our bandwidth, because the CSS files are cached.

Here are some useful references that help you to create skinnable website with CSS:
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/sprites/
http://www.digital-web.com/...image_replacement/

Other references:
http://www.csszengarden.com/
http://antenna.readalittle.net/thumblink/zenGarden/
http://www.uwplatt.edu/web/webstandards/WiLS/index.html

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