This is the third annual CSS Naked Day and it takes place all day on April 9, 2008.

On this day, participating web sites and blogs will strip their CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) to promote Web Standards and give acknowledgment to the web designers who work hard to create attractive web designs and make sure everything works behind the design.

I doubt our sites would consent to having their CSS stripped but I thought I would pass on this tidbit of internet culture. My personal blogs will most definitely go naked that day.

For more information, check out this: http://naked.dustindiaz.com/

The list is at 500 participating sites/blogs and growing.

More about what CSS is:

For those who have no idea what is going on, CSS means Cascading Style Sheet. In the “old” days of web page designs, the styles, the code that makes the background blue and the text black and the links green, were incorporated into the architecture code of the page. Every page had all of the design elements built right in.

This created heavily coded pages and a lot of problems. If you wanted to change the look of your website, you had to change the presentation and design elements on every page of your site. Not a problem if you have 10 web pages. A serious nightmare if you had 110 web pages.

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To give credit to the power of the CSS stylesheet, CSS Naked Day is a day when everyone is reminded that without stylesheets, web pages would be big and bulky, slow loading, and a whole industry of web development and design would not exist as it does today.”
Cited from Lorelle on WordPress
Read full text at Lorelle’s post.

Although I am one of those who type up CSS for both blogs and sites, I still want to say Thank you, web designers and developers all over the world. It is from them that I’ve learned my skills.

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