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Third Annual CSS Naked Day

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Happy CSS Naked Day! Dustin Diaz started this in 2006 as a way to promote web standards.

“In the spirit of promoting Web Standards along with good semantic markup and proper hierarchy structures, [today] will be a day of nakedness for all webmasters to remove their style sheets from their website for one day. …The fact of the matter is, if you’re writing good solid markup to begin with, it shouldn’t be all that bad anyway.”
– Dustin Diaz, First Annual Naked Day

It was a good idea then, and it’s a good idea now. If you’ve got a site, why not turn off the styles for a day and join in the fun?

Note: If you’re still seeing my design, hit “refresh” in your browser to strip the styles out.

CSS Naked Day ’07

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It’s that time of year again when standards-conscious web designers shed their stylesheets and let their sites run around, exposing their raw markup to the world to promote web standards. The idea is that a standards-based site will be marked up semantically enough that even without the stylesheets, it’s still usable, if not pretty. I can attest to the amount of time that we developers put into how a site will look without styles, even though few if any people will see it that way. To learn more, visit CSS Naked Day.

Edit: Okay, so I’m 24 hours off. For some reason, I thought today was the 5th of April, but it was actually yesterday. *sigh* Restoring the styles now.