CSS Zen Garden

CSS Zen Garden shows one page of text restyled by designers around the world using only CSS. When you arrive, you see a page, and a list of designs on the side. Click one and the page transforms completely, with the same words in a different layout, color scheme and mood. The trick is that the HTML never changes; only the stylesheet does. It was created by Dave Shea in 2003, and it became a landmark in the history of web design, showing people what CSS could do at a time when many sites still used tables for layout. It is educational and quietly beautiful, and a good way to see how much of a website's personality lives in its style. Click through a dozen designs, then view the source if you are curious. It is a pleasing history lesson for anyone who works on or cares about the web.