I think the downvotes are coming from people who have known and been inspired by CSS Zen Garden "back in the day".
The thing you need to remember is that CSS Zen Garden was big around 2004 and most of the designs are from that period. The site was a big inspiration at the time to show that with a single HTML file, you could completely change the appearance of a site. This was huge!
So the downvotes are likely coming with a thought along the line of "how dare you show disrespect for that venerable site!".
The thing you need to remember is that CSS Zen Garden was big around 2004 and most of the designs are from that period. The site was a big inspiration at the time to show that with a single HTML file, you could completely change the appearance of a site. This was huge!
So the downvotes are likely coming with a thought along the line of "how dare you show disrespect for that venerable site!".