CSS Naked Day
If you’re reading this the day it’s written (April 9, 2008) the site doesn’t look like itself. On a lark I went along with the “CSS Naked Day” meme: For one day a year thousands of sites turn off their CSS formatting and present the text and images of their sites “naked”.
The organizer/troublemaker behind the idea is Dustin Diaz, a user interface engineer at Google.
The purpose is to highlight content over design and to promote the separation between content and design. When your content can stand alone (doesn’t have excessive formatting codes), then it’s easy to repurpose in new contexts and environments.
For posterity, here’s a composite screenshot showing what my site looks like today and what it usually looks like these days (with my current design).
Looks like I fail on at least one count: The pictures in the blog posts are right aligned through non-CSS formatting (align="right" on the img tag). Oh well…
On the other hand I’m doing well on navigation cruft: There’s very little filler on the page before the first post appears. All of the category navigation, the post archive, etc. is shown after the main page content. And that serves me well for one context in which we all like our content to work well, namely how Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft and the other search engines read the page.
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