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.
i’ll read eric’s words
in my bed or at my desk
but not on tables
another great CC contest!
Such a meddlin’ mess:
convert all HTML
to CSS? Yes.
oh to read eric,
to feel his words dance through me,
t’is to know heaven.
I say good-bye to
Tables and transparent GIFs;
Validate me now.
Hey, thanks for jumping right in, guys, but I need to remind you about rule number 4. I need you to post a link back to the contest on your site. Don’t forget or your amazing haiku observations might be disqualified…
What is a Haiku?
I haven’t a frikkin’ clue
I hope this will do
<P>4 Obeyed</P>
Meek {font-family: Humble;
font-size: xx-small}
three from me:
following standards
is it too good to be true?
one can hope for the best
a CSS book
would be really good for me
my blog looks like crap
information junkie
can’t get enough books to read
add more to the pile
CSS is cool.
But not as cool as Eric.
Man I’m such a whore.
Three Haiku submissions:
My weblog now links
To a contest at CC.
p {me: excited;}
I’m just a student
I’ve no money, not a cent!
Knowledge equals rent
A CSS book.
Is that like a cooking book?
I’m trying to cook.
I would love to learn.
CCS is good to know.
It would help my site.
My stylesheets suck ass
A book would be very helpful
Please let it be mine
I am such a geek
For trying to win a book.
It would help my code.
Self-taught designer,
Patchwork of style sheet knowledge,
wants the big picture
I can write styles, but
want an elegant design
of code and of page
This fantastic book,
which I cannot yet afford,
can improve my work
Wind blows through tables
Internet gracefully bends
Styles are flexible
cascading stylesheets
came to the Web in winter
down from mount fuji
p {font-size: 2em;}
it was all so simple once
help me, eric m!
haiku
seven syllables
preceded by five and then
followed by five more
Eric’s wisdom tome
teaching young grasshoppers to
transform instantly
A couple from me. The first, a haiku that rhymes! Hope you all enjoy. 😉
you would never guess
I obsess o’er CSS
my site is a mess
Clients: Netscape 4
Their site must support relics
Eric shows me how
Style sheets make agile.
<div>’s that bend will never break.
Wind sighs, bamboo bows.
Lo! The book of hope!
Client asks for sun and moon:
Compliant porn site.
Tables for data
And CSS for design
At peace with the ‘web.
Complexity in
The name of simplicity
I’ll stick to mark up
I gape in wonder
at the concept of people
vying for my book.
Life seems just too weird
That things have come to this pass:
Surreal joy grips me.
So many very
Wonderful and creative
Entries: who will win?
I recall a true
Haiku evokes a season–
Tears of failure fall.
I search for a joke
Using CSS syntax…
Brain just empty-cells.
Haiku is not for me.
Almost makes it hurt when I pee.
The book…I’ll buy…that’s for sure.
‘Cause CSS is part of the cure. ; )
Mime stands in darkness
Its type is unknown to all
Except the lizard
CSS for style.
Avoid tables like rabies.
For data, dumbass.
Much thanks to Joe H
Who made me understand this
An entry? No.
Consolation Champs
Is many suck I R L
Award me asshat
I must confess the haiku with the asshat comment was me. Don’t worry I’ve disqualified myself since I just might have to help James judge. Oh well, now everyone else has a chance. =)
Mondrian laughing
at my problems with tables
Help me, css.
Here are my 3 Haikus. I sound so desperate, huh? 🙂
My brain was frozen
but I really want the book!
Make me the winner …
Show me the beauty
Teach me about CSS
So give me the book
I don’t mind to pay
the shipping cost of my book
I want it badly!
Sheets hanging on lines
cascading rain, a stylish
woman darts inside
Skinny, geeky, man
Eric writes on CSS
A wonderful world.
That book pulsates and
throbs on my bookcase, Eric
Meyer knows your mom.
Eric’s wife named Kat
A honeymoon in China
July ’98
It didn’t, It does now,
After reading Meyerweb and other CSS gurus,
my site does validate too.
heavenly standards
content bids font face good day
float pixel, be free
cascading petals
bring meaning to my design
substance within style
in-line, embedded,
external, and the default
compete for my eyes
Learned HTML,
Must give CSS a try?
Runs screaming down hall.
Night light protects me,
From the monsters in my mind,
But not from my dreams.
That’s right folks, the contest rules say nothing about a CSS or Eric-related haiku. However, if that becomes a requirement, then I insist that my haiku speaks to Eric’s mental state!
select oracle
not sufficient; at stylesheets
make me proficient
curly braces are
the trees enclosing the sweet
glory of content
oh text! i love thee.
ascii made lovely by the
song of simple sheets
#Eric { guiding: light;
separate: style/structure;
push-limits-of: web; }
Cascading Style Sheets
The Definitive Guide, book
and now there is another
Atlantic salmon
Steelhead/rainbow trout
both return to the ocean
And I might add, some think they are to be the same species.
a plea to css:
liberate me now
from tables and relics
of HTML
doh! i meant to write this:
a plea to css
liberate me now
from tables and old relics
of HTML
My CSS sucks.
I could really use this book.
Please say that I win.
ONE:
creativity
usability is key
style sheets can make it happen
am just a poor girl
typing on a computer
i need the book, bad
i like web design
i also like chocolate
will settle for book
.entry1 {
4.0 Browsers
Don’t support CSS2
Mozilla is cool
}
The entry limit
Is three times I’m pretty sure
So two more will come
unfortunately
i have just bought the same book
display equals none.
.poetic + license {
Want to win book, yes?
Linked to this site I have!
I type like Yoda
}
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Hope like morning rose
Spread with pungent blossom prose
Scent of grand knowledge
(beat haiku)
divs are in like flynn
tables are so last week yo
chicks dig web with style
When the Day will come
There’ll be when my Site is done
Wits for ev’ryone!