Welcome!
This is Tierra Verde, my
fourth submission to OSWD.
This design was inspired by the website of
whereis.com.au, an Australian-based online street directory. I chose the name
Tierra Verde to
encapsulate the green earthy tones which dominate the design’s color scheme.
Features of This Design
- Standards compliant
- Tierra Verde is 100% compliant with
XHTML 1.0 Strict and
CSS 2 for more consistent browser
rendering. The design is also XHTML 1.1-ready, merely requiring an
XML declaration and a change of
DTD.
- Layout without tables
- Unlike this design’s inspiration, Tierra Verde does not use tables for layout
purposes. This stems from my personal conviction that tables should only be used to
display tabular data.
More Features of This Design
- Relative metrics
- Most measurements (such as widths and spacings) are font-size relative. This means that
if a viewer changes the page’s default font size, the document metrics also change
to compensate.
- Separate stylesheet for color scheme
- All the colors of this design are defined in their own stylesheet. Thus, you can generate
several versions of this stylesheet which define different color schemes for your
webpage. To change your page’s colors, simply replace the color scheme stylesheet
with a different version.
Final Notes
I guess the movitation for making this design was to demonstrate that a
good-looking website written in HTML 4.0 Transitional
and making extensive use of tables could be rewritten in XHTML 1.0 Strict without tables,
and not lose too much design-wise.
I hope you find Tierra Verde useful. If you use this design or derive inspiration from it,
please let me know so that I may see
your site and share in your design ideas. That is, after all, the basic philosophy of
OSWD!
-- MauricioVieira - 24 Jun 2004