Stripping Off For Web Standards - It’s Naked Day
Posted on Monday, April 2nd, 2007
April 5th is CSS Naked Day! What does this mean? If you visit Unintentionally Blank, or any other of the sites on the Naked Day List on April 5th you won’t see any of the design that we all put so much effort into. Instead, you will see the bare HTML.
Why Would You Do That?
No CSS? Won’t that make the site unusable, unreadable, unbearable? The simple answer is, “No”. As this site follows web standards and uses semantic markup, you will still be able to use and read this site as intended. It will all be in black and white and standard fonts, sidebar underneath the main content and none of these fancy gradients, but the text will be there, the headings will be obvious and the underlying structure of the site will shine through.
The aim of the exercise is to prove the benefits of separating content from design, the ability of markup to describe a site in a perfectly readable way and being a bit of a geek. I’d have taken part last year, but this blog was merely a twinkle in my eye then. Still, I remember reading about it last year and wishing I had the ability to take part, not just the site, but the markup too. This year both goals have been achieved and I will be proud to be naked.
Join In!
Is your naked <body> good enough to take part too? Are you going to strip off this week? If you are proud of your code and want to support web standards, join in. If you’re using WordPress, there’s even a Naked Day plugin available.
Come on, let’s get naked!
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1April 2nd, 2007 at 4:43 am
Dustin Diaz Says:Excellent plug. Thanks :) This will be quite a turn out.
Best,
Dustin
2April 2nd, 2007 at 5:58 pm
Phil Says:Hi Dustin, thanks for stopping by. This should be a great event, I wonder what the total participation will be.
I’m certainly proud to join in though!
3April 4th, 2007 at 11:44 am
Nyssa Says:Different lol Not something I’ll be participating in though. Will try to stop by some websites though.
4April 4th, 2007 at 5:03 pm
Phil Says:Hi Nyssa!
Not interested in getting naked then? Why is that?
It certainly is different though, a great way to put your money where your standards are!
5April 4th, 2007 at 7:46 pm
Hans Says:wow that’s really frightening lol… what would my bare bone 3 columns resemble? great idea indeed :)
gotta used to your design though… I’m thinking what would happen if you would leave this blog naked like this :)
btw there’s a theme competition, it would be great fun to have you in there…. feel free to join buddy and hope you’re gonna like it :)
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April 4th, 2007 at 11:06 pm
6April 4th, 2007 at 11:31 pm
Phil Says:Hi Hans,
I just had a look at your site with no CSS and it was readable! You’ve got nothing to worry about (except the validation errors, but I’m just being picky).
Don’t worry though, this blog won’t be staying naked forever, I put too much effort into the design to be dropping it now!
I’ll leave a comment on your post about the competition! Looks like fun though!
7April 4th, 2007 at 11:52 pm
Nyssa Says:It just doesn’t interest me enough to participate, that’s all. :)
8April 5th, 2007 at 12:06 am
Phil Says:No problem! I just have to say that it is ideas and ideals displayed by events like this that encouraged me to start this blog and learn more about standards and semantics.
Good luck in Hans’ theme competition by the way! I think I’ll join you once this site has it’s clothes back on.