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Alright, now somebody hand me a towel

I have this picture in my head of hundreds of people standing around in a field the size of a battle area (like in Brave Heart) just running around naked shouting things like Haleluia and We're Free, Weeeee! and for roughly 48 hours we had the party of our lives. And now that that time has come to an end, we're all standing around looking at each other, in nakedness, with no shame whatsoever. But now it's time to pass out the towels.

Thanks to all who participated in the first annual naked day event, it was indeed a success. Albeit some negativity in some places around the web disagreeing with the whole concept, I indeed think the point was made and communicated a clear message. One web developer even pointed out that none of the sites that he reads are in this list. Here's some food for thought. This is a screenshot of the bottom of the list of which I was managing throughout the entire event.

Surely you've got to know at least one of those. It was even digg'd to the hompage (nevermind the fact that the comments are generally useless over there). More importantly, it had the support from WebStandards.org which ultimately is what it's all about.

A few Thanks You's

There were quite a few folks out there that I'd like to particularly point out that helped this thing get off the ground.

Alex Giron

The creator of CSS Beauty dropped a news item to the event in less than a minute's time from the moment I sent him an email. Thanks dude. Viva la revolución!

Mike Davidson

Although he had a rather comical comment about Yahoo!, in the end he came through and stripped off the clothing. It was rather ironic that most the comments found on this Newsvine thread were against the idea, yet the CEO was in fact participating. Props to you Mike.

Ian Lloyd

Not only was this backed by the folks at Wasp, but Ian stripped off the CSS at Accessify. Well done bro.

Molly Holzschlag

When a women invites you to get naked with her, what choice do you have really. I mean c'mon guys. I have to admit, I fell off the chair when I read that headline. Good work Molly.

The Brit Pack

As you might have noticed, many of the Brit Packers stripped down to their... well, as Jeremy Keith said, we don't need to go into the details of that. Thanks guys.

HÃ¥kon Lie

When the creator of CSS is on board. Don't ask questions. Thanks man. Next time I'll remember to spell your name right. Confusing How Come is easy to do. Aside from that matter, your words won't be forgotten.

Jeffrey Zeldman

As always, it's never a bad thing when Jeffrey drops a link to your site in agreeance with your efforts toward promoting Web Standards. Thanks Jeffrey.

And to all

Whether or not you made it to the list but still participated, you should all give yourself a round of applause. It is the mass of you who made this successful. We all know what this is really about. Some say that we were trying to achieve a goal but going about it the wrong way. Well I say Posh. Small talk. Our message was clear. I even give props to those who went naked knowing fully well that their markup wasn't that great. Exposing the fact that we have work to do was received very well. Some had table-developed layouts, while others had inline styles. Regardless of the matter, we all took the risk and it was beautiful.

Note about the 48 hours

For those who just didn't get the fact that a full day on the calendar is represented as 48 hours. Remember that the world does indeed have time-zones. This may have also confused those who said things to the likes of I clicked on some of the links and at least half of them still had their style sheets enabled. Well my dear friends, not everyone lives in your little world. It is inded, a much bigger place.

What was it like for you?

I'm interested in knowing if something was brought to your attention. Did anyone else realize the importance of source order and skip links? What about document hierarchy and page structure? Or of course anything else for the matter. Do tell.