Ground Floor: Basic styling for out-of-the-box NeoCities websites

We're currently working on an even simpler version that uses less elements (we're going to push the <article> style into <body>): http://kyledrake.neocities.org/groundfloorproposal.html

The basic idea is to provide sane defaults for people that aren't CSS experts and don't know how to use classes. Then they can slowly learn how CSS works without having their pages initially look like terrible un-styled crap from the early 90s.

This is a really cool idea, and Scott put a lot of work/thought into it. I think a lot of people outside of NeoCities would find this useful too, that's why I wanted to share it!

I really like this idea (as well as the notion of neocities in general), glad to see that it's adding basic styling and keeping it's sort of lean mentality (forgive the use of the word "lean" there). Good luck!

I'm a little worried about the use case, but no one ever really knows if anything will catch on or not, all we can do is speculate.

I wonder if one wouldn't be just as well off just using Zen Garden's HTML template -- then there's certainly a lot of beautiful CSS to draw inspiration from, for aspiring designers...

I'm a little confused about Zen Garden's current status, according to the official page, and the following link, work "has started" to convert to html5 -- but the code on github still appears to use xhtml...

At any rate the following link has a html5 starting point:

http://www.nateomedia.com/notebook/web-development/css-zen-g...

This is great for people who really don't have an eye for design and style, like me. I'll have to work with this on my site, http://gilgamech.neocities.org