If you know me, you’ll know I delight in playing with CSS. You may also know that this site is not only a portfolio/blog site for my own narcissistic purposes, but a learning excercise, and an attempt to create my own personal CSS playground in a vein similar to CSS Zen Garden.

In attempting to recreate a CSS Zen Garden-style approach to site theming, I’ve learned one thing: it’s difficult to achieve such diverse design and flexibility with dynamic content. CSS Zen Garden has one advantage over my site: its content is static. This means that the XHTML provided to people when they want to create their own stylsheet for Zen never changes. I don’t have that luxury - although I’m not far off, the amount, size and shape of content does change on a daily basis.