ArtsEdge

ArtsEdge is a seriously impressive website. Go there, check out the design (stunning, clear), then look at the technical aspects of it — this is the most surprising part. Semantically brilliant markup, even if a little div-heavy, and 100% CSS styling. This is the kind of website that print graphics agencies strive for – only, more often than not, they’re stuck in a fixed-pixel mindset which means no fluid design elements like on this site (e.g. the orange “lick” at the bottom and core content area background element, which displays in full at 1024+ and doesn’t visibly have anything missing at 800×600 or less). Its print stylesheet is also good stuff, trimming everything but the content and core branding itself — not enough websites do that.

As is too often the case with web companies, the agency responsible for this site, Cube7, don’t appear to have had the chance to give their own website this treatment yet. Even so, it’s a great testament to both their capabilities and the design potential of CSS.