Part 1

The Graphical Designer came to the CSS Zen Guru.

• Hi Guru! I'm a Graphical Designer and very eager to learn making good web pages. Can you help me?

The Guru smiled.

• No.

The Graphical Designer got a desperate look in his eyes.

• So I came here in vain? Please, please, please, help me!

The Guru spends some more words.

• Well, web designing is a way of thinking. There is not a one-and-only method, I'm afraid. You have to learn yourself. A lot of reading and studying good examples is your deal.

The Graphical Designer, in a hurry:

• Yes, yes, I'm prepared to that!

The Guru smiles again.

• I expected that. Otherwise you would not be here. But most of all: you have to experiment. Making a huge amount of testing pages, trial and error, and more testing pages will be your future.

The Graphical Designer, still in a hurry:

• Yes, yes, I'm prepared to that too! But where to start? Can you give me a hint?

Now the Guru smiled a big smile.

• Calm down, my son. Graphical Designer, eh? Then here is your first lesson: forget everything you've learned as such.

The Graphical Designer got question marks in his eyes.

• Oh. - But how can I do that?

The Guru looked to the horizon, and said:

• I'll make it easy, and give you a task. The coming week don't touch your keyboard. Go out, and look at the world. Imagine that all things you see, can be enlarged - but only in one dimension. And imagine the rest of what you see is shifting away some way, so that everything still can be seen. That's all - then come back next week.

The Graphical Designer is checking his ears.

• So next week I don't have to code? Just look around?

The Guru confirms.

• Yes, my son. Come back next week, and then tell me what you've seen.

 

- - One week later - -