People wonder why a lot of new web designers are boasting about and hyping up Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) so much. Well, there are plenty of reasons why, but over at CSS Zen Garden they are visually showing you why.

CSS Zen Garden was developed by Dave Shea, the man behin Mezzoblue and showcases, visually, the importance and flexability of CSS in web development.

The site now has around three hundred and fifty different designs all based upon the same markup of HTML. The only difference is the CSS applied to the page. Here are my top eightteen favourite designs:

• Wiggles the Wonderworm by Joseph Pearson
• RPM by Bruno Cunha
• Meliorism by Brett J. Gilbert
• Release One by Didier Hilhorst
• The Question Why by Diane Clayton
• Budda by Daniel Leroux
• Garden Party by Bobby van der Sluis
• Outburst by Chris Vincent
• Dark Industrial by Ray Henry
• Punkass by Mikhel Proulx
• Defiance by James Ehly
• Traffic by Nicole Hanusek
• Revealed by Kaare Byberg
• Kinder Garden by Andrew Laignel
• Rake by Gus Campbell
• Luna XP by Lim Chee Aun
• WinAmp3 by Kai Lavila
• Golden Age Comics by David Bjorgen

At the present time this site is currently under going a CSS transformation in cooperation with a fellow "web standards freak" over at dataportalen.com/pho