…well not me, personally. Symphonic is stripping of all CSS to show it’s lovely semantic markup, to celebrate the annual CSS Naked Day! (Livejournal readers – come and look!)
I was around on the internet for this last year, but I didn’t take part because I was too chicken (although I peeked privately, and actually it didn’t look too bad). After a years’ worth of progressively understanding “how stuff works”, I’m fairly confident about how sexy I’m going to look.
“But what if I don’t look sexy?” you say. “How shall I know if it looks sexy or not?”
Well, it’s simple. It’s sexy if it’s understandable. It’s sexy if it progresses down the page, and everyone leaves the site with just as much information as they would with CSS. It can be tricky – for example if you usually have your site name as a picture in your header, then take away the CSS and you still need to have it at the top in h1 tags. You still need your navigation links in an easy and obvious place, and you footer still needs to be at the bottom.
But, even if your site isn’t as pretty as mine some other people’s, don’t worry, and strip anyway. This isn’t a beauty contest (seriously, despite what I’ve been saying), the whole point of CSS Naked Day is to show everyone where they’ve gone wrong, and to promote good Web Standards. From the site itself:
The idea behind this event is to promote Web Standards. Plain and simple. This includes proper use of (x)html, semantic markup, a good hierarchy structure, and of course, a good ‘ol play on words. It’s time to show off your <body>.
For more information on why you should actually care about web standards, see Melissa’s fab post on it.
I’ll be honest. I don’t actually know when it starts or ends (I’ve got the plugin to figure it out for me), because it’s advised that although the actual day is 9th April, we should strip for a total of 48 hours, so that we’re naked whenever it’s 9th somewhere in the world. Which I think is soon, so you’ll probably be reading this in Times New Roman (or something prettier if you’re cooler than me).
And I’ll admit. I’ve checked already, and I do have a mistake. Virtual cookie to the people who spot it!
What’s the mistake? Maybe it’s the unlabelled search box right under your site name… I would say that it’s how your comment fields have their labels (i.e. Name, Mail, Website) *after* the actual textbox, but most WP users seem to have it like that all the time (even with CSS).
Your design (or, lack of it!) looks great!
Good markup!
Everyone’s going CSS Naked. At least you have your site title, I realised I forget to add mine in.