.. you have to look hard
When you try to find or achieve Zen you may need a life full of meditation, self refelection and inner peace. You may even need a long life filled with these ingredients.
Finding Zen is finding a pure state of existence, an existence away from bothersome thoughts and emotions. At first, this seems impossible.
Finding Zen in my humble (ignorant) opinion has to do with simplicity, with restraint. Achieving things through non-complication.
In comes the Garden
When I am talking about Zen and a Garden and when you know I am into web design and development you should immediately think of the CSS Zen Garden. The wonderful site that showed many many peopple how beautiful the web can be when one uses CSS. It proved that using CSS didn't mean you would get a blocky site. And a good job it did at that.
But we have moved on and the group of people using CSS to style websites has grown and the knowledge is spreading. Maybe it is time for the next step.
Where's the Zen in the Garden?
Getting back to my definition of achieving Zen: the simplicity, the restraint. Hold that in mind and open one of the beautiful pages of the CSS Zen Garden. Right. Admire and sit in awe. Wow!
Right, now do a view source of the page. Good chance you are not getting a feeling of Zen.
I know, I know, the HTML of CSS Zen Garden is made like this on purpose. To give CSS magicians extra divs do play with so that can achieve all these lovely designs.
But .. it's not Zen, IMHO.
Also, any good designed CSS site has loads of tags that do not directly have meaning. They are not adding anything from a semantical viewpoint. There are just placeholders. Nothing more than that. And to be absolutely sure we put placeholders around the placeholders.
Not really anywhere near Zen, IMHO.
Finding Zen
So, here is a new adventure. A new travel through the innersoul of web desginers and developers to once again purify and cleanse our code to try to achieve Zen.
I don't know whether I have found Zen in design, in the inner works of html pages, but I think I have made a small first step on a new journey.
Stay tuned to this blog and I will show my first steps on this new Road to Enlightenment.
In the meantime drink some green tea, do some yoga and meditate.
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