Thanks to the generosity of New Riders, I have a duplicate copy of Eric Meyer on CSS: Mastering the Language of Web Design to give away. If you’ve been reading CC for a while, you know what’s coming, don’t you? A contest! Previous contests have been quite popular, and I’ve managed to give away a couple of fine books by Messrs. Zeldman and Powazek.
Here are the rules for the Eric Meyer on CSS Haiku Contest:
1. Readers will submit a genuine haiku (using the comments link below), consisting of three lines. 5 syllables in each of the first and third lines, and 7 syllables in the second line.
2. There is a limit of 3 entries from each person, and at least 10 entries must be received for the prize to be awarded.
3. The contest will run from today until August 15, or until it gets boring.
4. Entrants need not post their entry on their own site, but must post a link to this entry to be eligible. Those without web sites are obviously exempt from this requirement.
5. Anyone in the world may enter and win, but those outside of North America might need to help with shipping costs if they are prohibitive.
Good luck, everyone, and please help spread the word! Oh, and yes, it’s a good book. You can read my review at Digital Web.
live life to the full
dont ponder with yesterday
tomorrow will come
My HTML
Has halved in its download time
And that is a fact
Yet this book shall boot
when { position: absolute }
under , Cook!
Sorry! It had to be:
Yet this book shall boot
when { position: absolute }
under <table>, Cook!
simplicity reigns
despite complications found
through box model hacks!
–
“style over content”
or just “seperated from”?
either way, it’s good.
–
without good structure
even the truth is hollow;
please! tidy your code!
we watch our :first-child
and pause-after, renew our
background-attachment.
“sylesheet problems!
this code is so very wrong!”
gasped the head geek
HTML was.
CSS adds a new look!
Guess I need the book.
As the hard drive spins.
Code runs around with a grin.
Till someone tries it.
My monitor died.
Smoking as it gave up life.
Too much CSS.
Clean fresh CSS
Frees us from table TD hell
Kick starts our heads
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[if ('#' == 'pound' && '0' == 'oh')]
leaves tumble from trees —
#000000
is the new black
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huddled by a fire
in our stylesheet discontent …
Eric is solstice
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we all used FONT tags
we all once liked macrame —
you can’t stop progress
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Mozilla ignores
My background picture right now
It hates CSS
take style and content
away from each other, gah!
i just peed my pants
tabular data
looks hot in tables, but wait
til you see my div
floating left and right
in a stupor of psycho-
tropic placement. dude.
mention on zeldman
garners many responses
good luck judging, james!
Tired of stealing code
View source has taught all it can
Need to keep learning
Tally syllables
Trade Webster for Meyer book
I love CSS
Content draped in style
Inherent beauty shines through
CSS is key
G, HTML
U R “L”. O? CSS?
OK! IOU!
I can’t link your blog.
I can’t make a pretty page.
I yearn for reference.
(That’s ‘ref-rence, not ‘re-fer-rence)
midnight chill inside
snow cascades like netscape four
deep drifts at the door
tawny flash of lynx
between sparse fir silhouettes
sees through your false spring
transforms sheets of rain
from mud puddles and blindness
into a mirror
.pleading>begging {
Poor designer waits
Can’t afford to buy the book
Needs to win contest
}
This is my last one
So good luck to all who tried
May the best one win
any browser org
does C S S fit the bill
who will be the judge
they said it would work
but not in other browser
compatible feh!
sometimes you try it
and it works like crazy stuff
sometimes the books lie
at the start HTML was
dull and stupid as limp rocks
now it sings with CSS
Working on my site
Have no content to include
Can CSS help?
I like this contest
I could link to this webpage
If my site was up.
Soon it will be born
of paper pure and giving
Perfect club sandwich
Books of paper torn
pages of infotainment
Complimentary
Caught in the middle
of argument with Tantek
Void has a line box?
The reed does not break
But bends to each reader’s needs
Text flows like water
My second haiku
was not that original,
was it? Please ignore
Phantom Menace sucked!
Attack of the Clones did, too!
Want old Star Wars back!
And, by golly, it validates:
head { float: left; clear: none; }
#my { position: absolute; }
.errors { display: none; }
BOW DOWN BEFORE THE KING OF HAIKU
in the squared circle
two gladiators face off
taste my righteous boot
(i got suckered into watching SmackDown! yesterday. so sue me)
incense is burning
sandalwood fills up my room
please don’t burn the desk
the night covers me
silent, like smoke in the dark,
i am your nightmare
(creepy. i like it.)
They wove fiber baskets
to hold five eggs at market.
It served all browsers.
his tiny fingers
clutched tight on my pinky
snores away in bliss
FTP’d my Styles
Works beautifully on IE
But Netscape tanks it
Code must validate
Clearly as the sun gleams off
Distant monitors.
My head pounds at night,
Forgot the semi-colons!
Poor lines have no bite.
My my, Netscape 4,
Creme of the crop you once were.
Forever rebuked.
CSS is cool,
You can format a font size,
And name it “Penis”
clean sheets in spring air
poetry is exclusion
use the minimum
observe, imitate
write well, revise when required
it is only code
I need no more books
unread volumes on wood floor
shite school library
#1
cascading rhyme fight
drunken style of elephant
your blood raining sheets
#2
style type equal to
text slash CSS dot class
font dash size ten point
#3
anal counting sucks
the life from my digit-drugged-
insomnia-brain
border-style: dotted
Is the rule for trendy blogs.
Let’s see something new.
Well-formed documents
reward with validity
given proper DOCTYPE’s.
Teach vim to children
lest they be stuck with other,
shoddy editors.
Hey folks,
Here goes:
#1
browsers won’t agree
to conform to W3C
darn — need more coffee
#2
sitting on my ass
position with CSS
again — browser wins
#3
A casket of style
harbors a listless body
cascades odor foul
jL
ps. my host seem to be later than usual at updating my home page which contain the link to this page. I expect the update to occur by the end of today.
width: 400 px;
but not in IE. where is
my calculator?
p + p + p
no wonder this browser is
pissing on my work
Brain: egg, hot pavement.
My site looks fine in IE,
yet disdained by Moz.
Table-based layouts
Struggle against the cascade
Like salmon in spring
ants ants god damn ants
seeking water during drought
stay out of my house
Cascading bed sheets
hand-loomed styles for blogs
whatever it means.
No more nightmares on
transparent gifts, still I dream
in bed-safe colours.
No Table Lay Outs
Eric Meyer Rocks The World
Code Validated
simplified design
controlled presentation
fallilng like water
falling. falling like water.
oops. so it should read:
simplified design
controlled presentation
falling like water
Already have book.
Can I have a short phone call
With guru instead?
Convert to style sheets?
Journey of one thousand miles
begins with this book.
Book is not enough.
Trial and error, often.
CSS worth it.