CSS Naked Day 2009

Getting Naked!

In an effort to promote web standards, I’m participating in this years CSS Naked Day.

If you’re viewing this site at the moment and it looks weird, don’t run for the ‘refresh’ button. It’s intentional. The idea is the brainchild of web guru Dustin Diaz.

CSS Naked Day is an effort to raise awareness of web standards, which is – in short – the right way to design for the web. It includes structuring content on pages with a meaningful hierarchy, marking it up using valid XHTML and styling it appropriately using valid CSS. Using these standards helps the web move forward and ensures your site is accessible as possible to everyone.

Showing your naked <body>

So why does the site look weird? Well, I’ve simply switched off the CSS styling so you’re seeing the raw marked up content of the site. If it’s still reasonably clear where everything is, then I’ve done my job right. Essentially, you’re seeing what the Googlebot sees when it crawls the web.

I’m going to stick my neck out here and proudly say that this entire site validates as proper XHTML. Check for yourself. Happy CSS Naked Day 2009!

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