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Asked: 2026-05-18T00:15:57+00:00

I currently have some modest HTML/CSS Know-How and want to improve from there. I

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I currently have some modest HTML/CSS Know-How and want to improve from there.

I found out for myself that the best way is to get the HTML/CSS from an existing Website and to rebuild it from scratch and do some old fashioned learning by doing: why is this element needed, what happens if I remove it in firebug, etc…

But like in every field: as a newbee, its very difficult to distinguish wheter the HTML/CSS I look at is good or bad. Do you know any sites from which you think, as an advanced Webdesigner, that they have some great and clean HTML/CSS code to learn from?

Appreciate every tip
belehe

PS: I am not speaking about sites like CSS Zengarden, but rather real ‘productive’ sites like mint.com, etc…

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  1. Editorial Team

    Some “classic” links:

    • A List Apart: A list/magazine (because it existed before the term “blog” was generalized) with articles about every aspect of web design including semantic HTML and proper CSS use (featuring one of the articles that started the movement against table-based design).
    • CSS Zen Garden: Created to show the designers:
      • That you can create very good designs without tables
      • That with a proper HTML layout you can change the design of your site touching only CSS and images (i.e. without having to change the HTML layout).

    CSS Zen Garden has several of the most impressive and beautiful designs I have seen, definitely you should check it.

    Edit: some examples as requested:

    Note that one of the points of CSS Zen Garden is that all the designs use exactly the same HTML layout, only the CSS and the background images are changed.

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