From the 2008 archives — a note on CSS Drive, revisited in 2026.
CSS Drive — a categorized CSS gallery
CSS Drive was a categorized CSS gallery: page layouts with two columns, three columns, or mixed columns and rows, browsable by color scheme, contrast, and style. A useful reference when you needed to build a decent-looking page quickly with only minor design changes of your own.
A note on its current state: the site itself no longer resolves — its DNS is effectively dead as of 2026 — but it stayed online into the mid-2020s, and the link above points to an archived copy on the Wayback Machine. Its layout galleries and color tools are still a useful snapshot of the CSS gallery era.
What to use instead
Everything CSS Drive offered by hand is now either built into CSS or handled by design systems. The old “browse a gallery, copy a layout” workflow has been replaced by:
- CSS Grid and Flexbox — the two- and three-column layouts CSS Drive catalogued are now a few lines of native CSS. CSS-Tricks’ Grid guide and Flexbox guide are the modern equivalents of those gallery pages.
- Theme and component galleries — for ready-made starting points, the shadcn/ui component library, Tailwind UI, and Bootstrap’s example pages serve the same purpose with current standards.
- Color tooling — CSS Drive’s color-scheme browser lives on in tools like Coolors and the CSS-native oklch() color space, which makes building accessible, consistent palettes far more predictable than the hex-swatch galleries of 2008.