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Strange, pointless Bananas

Strange Banana randomly generates a CSS driven website design and encourages you to use the code as your own, if you wish.

While it’s a clever gimick, the designs look pretty similar to the CSS based cookie cutter sites that were the norm about a year and a half ago, before nice sites like Jimformation and the oft-mentioned Zeldman‘s site stood well out from the dull, CSS copy and paste crowd.

Strange Banana might be very clever, but it’s just a shoddy way for wannabe web designers to grab some code they don’t remotely understand and pass it off as their own. Worse than that, it’s not helping anybody learn anything in the way that Glish and Bluerobot do so well.

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