April 8th, 2008
Yup, that’s right. This site is participating in CSS Naked Day to show much love Web Standards and all those who make our blogs beautiful. (Including me *ahem*) By stripping our designs for the day, we are showing support for those who take mass amounts of time/energy/frustration and high doses of caffeine to make our blog gorgeous, because we’re they’re worth it! Right?
Blog Herald posted an excellent article regarding CSS Naked Day - must read!
As stated by Lorelle:
This is the third year of the annual CSS Naked Day which honors web design and designers around the world who help make our websites and blogs look “pretty” to the eye while still being totally functional under the hood. Dustin Diaz wanted to give the web world an opportunity to remind everyone of the benefits of CSS web page design. By removing the stylesheet for the day, the world would see naked web pages, giving a little more appreciation for the skills of web page designers.
What do you have to do to participate?
Simple - install the Naked Day plugin, change the file name of your stylesheet, or remove it completely for the day (remember to keep a back up on file!!) Lorelle has also provided a naked theme on Lorelle on Wordpress for those who are tech savvy.
So, feel like getting naked?
I wanna know who’s stripping on April 9th so sign up on my Mr. Linky so I can stop by and see your bare ass (blog).
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You could do this with Blogger, too, by using the most basic (minima, I think) theme with no alterations.
Kathy’s last blog post..The Beast
April 8th, 2008 at 10:37 am
My blog is boring enough without going naked. HEHE!
justmylife’s last blog post..Yet another 25….
April 8th, 2008 at 11:51 am
I probably shouldn’t have filled out mister linky since I won’t be participating because God knows, if I do all that you said…
…well, it’d be a disaster. That’s an understatement.
Krystle’s last blog post..It’s not fun being bullied. But then you can laugh.
April 8th, 2008 at 12:14 pm
I’ll share you MY bare ass, but I’m keeping my blogs covered up. Theres no way I’d ever get it all dressed again. I’m just not that smart.
Karly’s last blog post..This One’s For Daryl
April 8th, 2008 at 1:58 pm
I would totally do this, but I fully expect Glenn Beck to be visiting my site today, followed by Matt Lauer (I keep waiting for that one) and I don’t want them to fall asleep.
I have to say, I have the utmost respect for web designers, though. And I would write this on my blog if I were going naked. Your work is what makes people stop and read. It doesn’t matter how good our content is, no one is going to stop if the atmosphere isn’t inviting.
Thanks for everything you do!
Velveteen Mind - Megan’s last blog post..Glenn Beck’s Responsibility Beat-Down. I’m in.
April 9th, 2008 at 8:21 am
Kathy: With blogger Classic you can comment out the style portion of the template… I haven’t really looked at the New Blogger to see yet… but sure it can be done!
justmylife: LMAO!! Too funny!
Krystle: yeah, maybe you wanna stay away from this one… unless you freakin’ BACK UP!! LOL
Karly: LMAO. I Love you!!
Velveteen Mind: What a sweet comment - thanks Megan!!
April 16th, 2008 at 9:15 am