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The CSS Thesis

Posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago at 9:03 am. 2 comments

Not too long ago, a good friend of mine and I were sitting in a coffee shop in the middle of Honolulu. We were trying to think of a small and fun project we could build together. After some thinking we both decided to bring CSS Thesis, an old and very popular CSS gallery back from the dead.

CSS Thesis was once a popular online gallery which featured some of the nicest and cleanest sites on the web. I mean, come on, the one and only Whalesalad was featured on it at one point. Haha. But really, it was a clean site with a very defined focus: show designers really awesome websites, and let them vote very easily. So, we decided to build it from the ground up.

The new site is built on CodeIgniter and runs on Nginx in a teeny 256mb slice from Slicehost. We’re running it through its paces and so far its handling pretty well, but we’ll see. A review of Slicehost is sure to come. Hopefully they don’t become slicehosed like DH and MT.

Go check out the new CSS Thesis, and submit a few sites!