Liquid Designs new!

at 02:08 on 15 November 2005, Chris Griffin wrote:

The CSS Gallery thing is getting way out of hand. Stylegala, CSS Vault (hanging on by a limb), and CSS Beauty are the only ones I keep in my feeds.

at 02:29 on 15 November 2005, Chris Griffin wrote:

and some advice:

No offense, but If you are going to add yet another CSS gallery to the already flooded market find some designs that are unique. We all know about Jason Santa Maria, Molly, Livejournal (Not a CSS design, done in tables), and 456 Berea Street. In fact, some of those designs have been up for over a year.

at 03:13 on 15 November 2005, C Montoya wrote:

I'm sorry, but you obviously didn't take a second to look at the website. It's not yet another CSS gallery. It's devoted specifically to websites designed with fluid widths. There are a lot of websites there that have not been featured in other CSS Galleries. There's also articles and such specific to liquid design, which is something a lot of people have trouble with. This website has proven to be a big resource to people on CSS-discuss and help forums who are having trouble with this kind of work, and for them I am keeping the project alive.

I'll look at the code for Livejournal again, and if it is tables, I'll remove it. But what I said is true... 50% of the websites on Liquid Designs have not been featured elsewhere, so I am finding unique stuff. Besides that, you can talk all the crap you want about too many CSS websites, but this website is about as similar to all those as Devil's Details. As in, it's not.

Next time get your facts straight, thanks.

at 03:24 on 15 November 2005, C Montoya wrote:

I've checked LiveJournal.com, and while the source code may not be pretty, I'm certain that the only tables are used for tabular data. There are 3 tables at the top of the source, after that the actual content starts, and all that is enclosed in divs. For such a complex business website, it's a great fluid design. And I'm not stupid.

at 07:25 on 15 November 2005, Mike Simpson wrote:

So then what you're saying is that it's a Css gallery, but a design can only be featured if it is fluid. So in other words, it's a Css gallery.

You are also breaking public news rules by self-promoting your own site.

"• No advertising - not even if your site validates. None. "

at 07:44 on 15 November 2005, C Montoya wrote:

I'm saying the CSS gallery is part of the whole package. Look, this isn't stylereactor, css thesis, css smooth operator, css drive, unmatched style, screenspire, css-mania, etc. etc. etc. I'm sorry, to you and everyone else, that all those websites were created. I'm sorry for what everyone else did. But it's not my fault that there are too many generic, cookie cutter CSS galleries out there. I don't think that's a good reason to discredit the usefulness of Liquid Designs. I'm not looking for traffic or trying to be cool. I have ads but it's just to offset the costs. What I am trying to do is offer something of use to the design community, and if you can't understand that, then just don't use the site. Move on. But don't paint the "me-too" brush on what I do, because I'm not that kind of designer.

at 07:47 on 15 November 2005, C Montoya wrote:

As for breaking the rules, I read the rules before posting... the first time I announced the site, and this time when I announced the rebuild. I really don't think it's advertising, because my intention is not to get traffic or make money. I'm letting people know that the url changed, and the site is back in action. A lot of people find the website very useful and I wouldn't want them to have a problem accessing it now that it has moved. If my post was advertising, then every single post in the public news is advertising too. Might as well take them all down.

at 08:36 on 15 November 2005, C Montoya wrote:

I'll update you on whether or not I "broke the rules."

Said Phil Renaud:

"I also have no problem with sites being promoted by their author just so long as the sites happen to be something meaningful. The public news here can be both a blessing to those who post useful things and a curse to those who post useless things: When one posts an article or their personal blog or something that is uninteresting to Stylegala readers, it may as well be a black-mark against that site for the rest of its existence.

So yeah, I think that it's more than okay for the public news to be just that: public."

You can read this two entries up on the article about "floppy disks."

at 06:15 on 19 November 2005, C Montoya wrote:

I guess I won that one.

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