First Annual Naked Day: April 05
Update!! // Some where along the lines the is_naked_day function wasn’t working across all PHP configurations. There is now an updated naked_day function which is recommended for you to use
That’s right, I’m starting the first annual CSS Naked Day. In the spirit of promoting Web Standards along with good semantic markup and proper hierarchy structures, April 5th will be a day of nakedness for all webmasters to remove their style sheets from their website for one day. Signining up is not required, just simply comment in this thread with a link to your website and let everyone else know that you’re participating.
Details
There’s not much details about it. This is merely to see if you’re up to the challenge to put your website on the line. If you run an e-commerce website, you ought not participate; this is purely for those with personal blogs or for those who run publications or…whatever. All the more props to you if you run a large website!
The fact of the matter is, if you’re writing good solid markup to begin with, it shouldn’t be all that bad anyway. It will be a test case to see how usable your website is to others without a design.
So in the meantime, don’t hesitate to prepare your site for the big day. If you feel the need to explain why your site is naked
(without design) to your visitors, simply put the following markup at the top fo your page (remember that this is totally optional):
Markup for your naked day participation
<h3>What happened to the design?</h3>
<p>To know more about why styles are disabled on this website visit the
<a href="http://naked.dustindiaz.com" title="Web Standards Naked Day Host Website">
Annual CSS Naked Day</a> website for more information.</p>Once April 5th is over and you’ve added your style sheets back to your website, simply remove the message. Cheers to all those who want to join!
FYI
I will indeed be participating myself! So don’t feel left out.
Update:// I’ve added the Naked List by popular demand. I’ll keep the list updated up until the sixth.
Update Two:// Here’s a simple PHP function for those who want to participate every year without the fuss of manually removing them on the day of. Note, this will keep you site naked during the entire 48 hour period of April 5th (which is what I’m recommending):
(Updated) PHP is_naked_day function
<?php
function is_naked_day() {
$start = date('U', mktime(-12,0,0,04,05,date('Y')));
$end = date('U', mktime(36,0,0,04,05,date('Y')));
$z = date('Z') * -1;
$now = time() $z;
if ( $now >= $start && $now < = $end ) {
return true;
}
else {
return false;
}
}
?>Props to Luke Wertz for whipping this up in less than 30 seconds.
Here is a sample usage of the function:
using the is_naked_day function
<?php
if ( is_naked_day() ) {
echo "<!--
It's Naked Day didn't ya know it
See http://naked.dustindiaz.com for more information
-->";
}
else {
?>
<style type="text/css">
<!--
@import"/css/your_style_sheet.css";
-->
</style>
<?php
}
?>Once again, thanks everyone for making this first annual naked day so successful! You Rock!
March 30th, 2006 at 8:39 pm
LOL =) Right on. Count me in. But WOW, CTRL+SHIFT+S on WebDevTool… and Blaaam! I guess I was in a rush when I did mine haha.
March 30th, 2006 at 8:55 pm
Sounds fun! I’m definitely gonna participate. Who could pass up an opportunity to be naked for a day!
March 30th, 2006 at 8:58 pm
I’m in! Great idea, Dustin. Simple, to the point, and visibly impacting. I love it.
March 30th, 2006 at 9:44 pm
Great idea Dustin! What a day it’ll be ^.^
I would participate except I don’t have a blog so I’ll just bask in others nakedness :)
March 30th, 2006 at 10:23 pm
Sounds good. I have a question though: If Yahoo decided to participate in this, how would anyone know?
I kid, I kid…
March 30th, 2006 at 10:46 pm
Wow, now that’s original.
Normally I’d participate, but much of my current XHTML markup wasn’t written by me but by whoever did Kubrick and the Default WP Theme…Now if you were doing this after May 1st, I could do it with a clear conscience.
March 30th, 2006 at 10:57 pm
@Sherwin: Awesome. Glad you’re in. Don’t get ahead of yourself with the toolbar. On April 5 you won’t need it :)
@Matt: Glad you’ve caught the point. I’m excited I’ve got some early adopters.
@Patrick: Thanks for spreading the word on your site. We’ll need a lot of that.
@Kanashii: Nothing wrong with watching us get naked. I’m sure it’ll be visually stimulating ;)
@Elliot: C’mon now. You’ve got a week to fix it up :)
March 30th, 2006 at 11:41 pm
Mike, you might have a point when it comes to Geocities ;) But we can point at several other big websites and have a good laugh for days.
Anyway, so are you up for it?
March 31st, 2006 at 12:21 am
Great Idea. I am defenitly in - my site http://www.bin-co.com/ will be shown in naked HTML for that day - no CSS whatsoever.
I worked a lot to make my site valid - knowing full well that very little people will appreciate it. I mean, how many people browse the web without the stylesheets? These guys will never see the work I did - because they will only see the pretty colors. At last, they will know what I have gone thru while making the site.
I want to suggest some changes to the plan…
I think, we need a better explanation page - the vistors must have a clear idea of what happened, why it happened. The current page (http://www.dustindiaz.com/naked-day) don’t do that much. So what about writing another post Dustin?
Another idea - how about just the homepage? All the formating on the homepage will be gone - but all the other pages will appear like always.
Also, how about a small javascript that will let you enable the stylesheets? I mean, there is no point in forcing a non formated page on a vistor. Just add a small button the the explanation text that will enable the styles. So the user will see the none formatted only for the first visit. Time to bring back your ‘UDASSS’ script.
Any more ideas, anyone?
March 31st, 2006 at 12:59 am
You can count me in, sounds like a laugh.
March 31st, 2006 at 1:46 am
Accessify will go nekkid on the 5th. It’ll be showing all its ‘white bits’ with pride!
March 31st, 2006 at 2:07 am
Sure, what the hell, I’m game. ;)
March 31st, 2006 at 2:12 am
Cool! Idea, I am in, but just one suggestion, why not do it on April 1st, would probably have a better shock factor!!
March 31st, 2006 at 2:15 am
@Binny: Excellent proposals and I like that you’re contributing some solid ideas. I would indeed like to have a better page than just this post. I’ll get started on a “naked.dustindiaz.com” page and periodically update it until the 5th.
Re: Just the homepage, I think that would slightly defeat the purpose. I think there is much to learn in how a website works without its design; and thus navigating a website is part of the interaction we do as users. Not to mention, yea; it is a risk, but that makes it all the more powerful and fun.
@James: Great. I’ll add you to the list.
@Ian: Awesome man! I’m glad to know that I’ve got Accessify’s support, that will say something big.
@Mats: Wonderful, the more for the cause the better :)
March 31st, 2006 at 4:47 am
Sounds like a plan. My whitespace “design” wont change much anyway :p
I seeded it on newsvine too, so hopefully the word will spread.
I see I have some typos that create some validation errors, better fix those too.
March 31st, 2006 at 4:54 am
FOUC … does that count too?
March 31st, 2006 at 5:28 am
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March 31st, 2006 at 6:57 am
Sounds like an idea :P
March 31st, 2006 at 7:23 am
Great idea! I’ll carry the spirit of being naked over to Germany and will participate. ;-)
March 31st, 2006 at 7:45 am
I would be happy to participate. Surprisingly my semantic code seems to be in fairly decent shape! Go figure.
Feels good to go naked every so often.
March 31st, 2006 at 7:54 am
I’m in! This rocks!
March 31st, 2006 at 8:12 am
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March 31st, 2006 at 8:15 am
A bunch of naked guys is cool, but how about a naked gal? :) I’m in!
March 31st, 2006 at 8:19 am
oh, i just noticed ‘anual’ needs another ‘n’ (unless you meant to remove the ‘u’? :P
March 31st, 2006 at 8:24 am
slayeroffice is in. I never need much of an excuse to drop my pants…er, remove my css.
March 31st, 2006 at 8:25 am
Oh sounds like fun.
I’ll do it but no one reads my blog so it won’t really matter. =P
March 31st, 2006 at 8:41 am
good idea. i’m game.
March 31st, 2006 at 8:48 am
any particular time zone? =]
March 31st, 2006 at 9:06 am
Awesome idea — I’m in. I’m in the habit of checking many sites using the Web Developer extension and CTRL + Shift + S but this is a whole new ballgame.
March 31st, 2006 at 9:08 am
This is a very interesting idea. It should be interesting to see how it kicks off. Dustin, are you going top post who all of the confirmed sites that are taking part are?
@Natalie - I would have never expected that.
March 31st, 2006 at 9:35 am
Well it’s not so much the quality of the current code I’m worried about, but I’d feel sort of weird showing off somebody else’s markup….
Maybe I should do it anyways.
March 31st, 2006 at 10:53 am
@All: This is so cool, I did not expect so many folks were going to take to it! This really is awesome! Keep the folks comin’
@Natalie: You might want to bring more of your lady friends - it may be a bit awkward if you’re the only gal. By the way, I fixed the “anual” to “annual” thanks for that tidbit (and to think I almost said tittybit (shame on me)).
@Ralf: Glad to know the word is getting spread in Germany :)
@Pete: Re: Timezone, Haven’t figured out that detail yet. My best guess would be to do the following: The day before have a game plan on how you’re going to remove your style sheets. On the morning of April 5th, do it. Then when you wake up on thursday the 6th, put your clothes back on :)
@Dennis, yes, unfortunately to know what’s going on, you’ll just have to read through the comments to get a good idea of where we stand. I’ve been doing my best to address everyone as the comments come along. So far the first decision I’ve made is that I’ll be moving the reference link to “naked.dustindiaz.com” rather than this post. I’ll also be putting up a running list of all those who are “in”.
March 31st, 2006 at 11:12 am
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March 31st, 2006 at 11:13 am
Count me in! I have to finish my wordpress theme with the accessibility details so you gave me a good reason to do this immediately.
A list of participants would be a cool thing!
March 31st, 2006 at 11:13 am
I’m in! Although my site/blog is in french ;)
March 31st, 2006 at 11:18 am
I don’t even know what this is about, because I didn’t bother reading any of the words. I just ‘naked.’ It makes me happy.
March 31st, 2006 at 11:29 am
This is a really good idea and an interesting experiment.
http://www.einigkeit-autenzell-rettenbach.de
March 31st, 2006 at 11:35 am
What a great idea! Can’t keep me from tearing my CSS apart on that day. I hope that Ralf and I are not the only Germans going naked, so I’ll spread the word to my readers, too.
P.S.: If you follow the link that day, think of the timezones, we are GMT +1 ;)
March 31st, 2006 at 12:14 pm
Well, the word is spreading in Germany… (Thanks to Ralf G.)
My blog is ready for stripping naked on Wednesday!
March 31st, 2006 at 12:44 pm
Dustin, great idea, and both meiert.com and UITest.com will get naked, at April 5, 0am GMT+1!
@Ralf, Sebastian - now there’s more support from Germany ;)
March 31st, 2006 at 12:55 pm
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March 31st, 2006 at 1:24 pm
I’m game.
March 31st, 2006 at 1:34 pm
I am in. http://www.ericwebster.net..
I don’t think that my other site Pontiac.com will be joining us. :(
March 31st, 2006 at 2:11 pm
False advertising alert! ;-)
Cool idea Dustin; I’ve just had a look at my site without css and it doesn’t look too bad at all…
I might join in if I find time.
March 31st, 2006 at 2:22 pm
Hey man im totally in. Thats if Yahoo! ever changes my name servers back to how there supposed to be. But if my site is back on April 5th im in
March 31st, 2006 at 2:22 pm
Fantastic idea. List me too:
http://www.point-break.com
http://www.pfotolog.com/archives/
March 31st, 2006 at 2:45 pm
Hmmm, I was a little skeptical when I first read this, what with the possible user confusion and all, but what the hell, it could be fun. It’ll also give me an opportunity/incentive to finally tweak my design design a bit.
Dylan Grose
http://workingmodel.net/
March 31st, 2006 at 2:58 pm
Very interesting idea. I’ll be looking forward to seeing the nudist colony of websites. :)
March 31st, 2006 at 4:56 pm
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March 31st, 2006 at 5:27 pm
I’m totally in. Good idea.
March 31st, 2006 at 5:33 pm
Heh, you know I actually browse most of my sites without styles on before I launch them :) I’ll do it - but I’m going to one-up you. I’m removing all of my javascript (aside from stats) too! Graceful degredation all the way.
March 31st, 2006 at 5:57 pm
Count me in! I’ll make sure both TwistedIntellect.com and my very self will be naked on April 5th!
…err… …at least one of the two…
March 31st, 2006 at 6:14 pm
I’m in! Sure why not..?
Sign me up. :-)
March 31st, 2006 at 6:14 pm
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March 31st, 2006 at 6:18 pm
I’ll try to finish my website by then :)
March 31st, 2006 at 6:29 pm
What the hell, count me in
March 31st, 2006 at 6:32 pm
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March 31st, 2006 at 7:56 pm
Oh you know we’re game…
March 31st, 2006 at 8:39 pm
Count me in. Hey, I’ll even strip, removing piece of my stylesheet every day until it’s nude.
March 31st, 2006 at 9:47 pm
Let’s get naked! Cool idea…..:-)
March 31st, 2006 at 10:06 pm
sign me up, dude!
March 31st, 2006 at 10:14 pm
I’m in.
March 31st, 2006 at 11:10 pm
in
March 31st, 2006 at 11:36 pm
Dude, count me in!
I’ve always wanted an excuse to totally drop (CSS) trou, I’m just kicking myself that I didn’t come up with the idea.
April 1st, 2006 at 12:56 am
All naked, all the time. I’m all about the markup, baby.
April 1st, 2006 at 1:16 am
Yeah, go on then…
April 1st, 2006 at 1:55 am
Dammit - I really feel like a latecomer now. But, I’m in!
One question though - why the 5th, Dustin? Basically wondering if there was any science behind the choice, or whether it was “lets stick a pin in the calendar. AH, there we go…”?
April 1st, 2006 at 2:28 am
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April 1st, 2006 at 2:38 am
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April 1st, 2006 at 2:40 am
Great! I’ll participate too, although I’m a bit scared about my markup. If nothing else, it’ll give me a reason to spruce up my source :-).
I hope I remember the date though. These days I can’t seem to keep track of dates.
April 1st, 2006 at 2:58 am
Allright, I will give it a shot… let’s hope it will not desintegrate on the spot.
April 1st, 2006 at 2:59 am
i’ll do it :)
April 1st, 2006 at 3:11 am
Count me in ;)
April 1st, 2006 at 3:19 am
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April 1st, 2006 at 3:39 am
i’ll bare :)
April 1st, 2006 at 3:58 am
This is an April Fools Prank Right?
April 1st, 2006 at 5:05 am
It’s not the 5th, so we’ve got few more days. I’m in.
April 1st, 2006 at 5:16 am
Count me in! http://hlb.yichi.org/blog/
(although I use Chinese as main language)
April 1st, 2006 at 5:29 am
I’m hoping for my new website to be up on the 5th - count me in!
April 1st, 2006 at 5:30 am
Yeah, what the hell. Ironically my blog looks better without CSS than it does with, so count me in.
April 1st, 2006 at 5:41 am
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April 1st, 2006 at 6:35 am
Count me in. ;)
April 1st, 2006 at 6:38 am
I’m just wondering how many Sites are going to update their design during this 24-hour window just as an excuse. You may want to consider linking with Reboot next year. Have one day of cleansing before the big change.
April 1st, 2006 at 7:05 am
I don`t see many ppl from Poland here. It`s the high time to show that we are not stuck in the end of a long tail and we design with standards too. We`re not ashamed of what we have underneath our CSS. ;)
I mean… I`m in.
April 1st, 2006 at 7:32 am
Count me in :D
April 1st, 2006 at 7:39 am
I’m in too. Sounds like good ol’ time :)
April 1st, 2006 at 7:40 am
of course, i would like to be a part of naked day, if someone can email me more details on this topic. i mean, what about the w3c validation and do i need to redesign my site?
Best of luck and cheers
April 1st, 2006 at 8:04 am
I’m so on.
April 1st, 2006 at 8:36 am
I’m in :)
April 1st, 2006 at 8:44 am
I’m in.
April 1st, 2006 at 8:52 am
Well, no one looks at my site anyway, so I might as well join! ;)
I didn’t write the WP theme I have in use, but I have added plenty of modifications to it. It works pretty well without CSS.
Jim
April 1st, 2006 at 9:05 am
Joining too. Nice idea! :) Greetings from Germany.
April 1st, 2006 at 9:35 am
I’m in too. I think it would be very popular.
April 1st, 2006 at 9:40 am
@All: Thanks for being so patient and the large support! This is going to be awesome. I’m slowly adding everyone’s name to the list on the subdomain site. And no, this is not a April 1 Joke. I’m purposely holding it on the 5th for two reasons.
1) So you wouldn’t think it was an April Fools Joke. And…
2) Wednesday is typically the “most traffic” day of the week across the board, so that will be a good time for everyone to sport their birthday suits for a day :)
Again, thanks all for making this so successful. Keep the participants comin’! And keep spreading the word :)
April 1st, 2006 at 9:40 am
Done!
April 1st, 2006 at 9:43 am
I’m in too :) Good Idea
April 1st, 2006 at 9:49 am
I’m in. Good idea, I think.
April 1st, 2006 at 10:09 am
That’s it !
April 1st, 2006 at 10:17 am
Why not. Actually, my site will probablly look better.
April 1st, 2006 at 10:24 am
Naked, eh? Sounds like fun. I’m in.
April 1st, 2006 at 10:25 am
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April 1st, 2006 at 10:26 am
Sign me up !!
I dread to think what my site will look like naked… all podgy and flabby I suspect :)
April 1st, 2006 at 10:30 am
P.S: Feel free to add me to the naked day microsite ;)
April 1st, 2006 at 11:38 am
Hey I’m in!
Finally the chance to see the difference between “good naked” and “bad naked” (without the need for a fat guy and a canonball.)
April 1st, 2006 at 11:42 am
It’s a good job there’s still a few days to get the creases out of my birthday suit, but I’ll give it a go :)
April 1st, 2006 at 12:30 pm
Sounds like a great idea. Count me in.
April 1st, 2006 at 12:32 pm
Count me in.
April 1st, 2006 at 12:45 pm
I’m terribly sorry if I bring confusion (and feel free to delete this comment if I do or if you address the question somewhere else) but should it be understood that the day is meant to be in local time? In that case the Americans on the West Coast will have little time to see Japanese websites for instance. I’m in France BTW.
April 1st, 2006 at 12:47 pm
Hi! My norwegian blog really wants to be naked the 5th April :) So count me in!
April 1st, 2006 at 12:59 pm
I think I will also participate, I like this idea.
April 1st, 2006 at 1:03 pm
Word up! I’m in.
April 1st, 2006 at 1:08 pm
Hi,
French speaking go too :-)
http://www.blog.webatou.be/index.php?2006/04/01/votre-site-tout-nu
Best regards,
Monique
April 1st, 2006 at 1:13 pm
I’ve read here before and never commented, but I had to comment in response to this. What a great idea! I shall definitely do this.
April 1st, 2006 at 1:17 pm
Count me too :)
April 1st, 2006 at 1:19 pm
I’m in! ;]
April 1st, 2006 at 1:39 pm
And me (:
April 1st, 2006 at 2:00 pm
I’ll join in, Semantics are sexy on their own anyway
April 1st, 2006 at 2:38 pm
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April 1st, 2006 at 2:40 pm
I’m in! Should be interesting…I’ve never been naked in public before… :)
April 1st, 2006 at 2:45 pm
i’m with you folks!
April 1st, 2006 at 3:08 pm
I’m game. :D
April 1st, 2006 at 4:04 pm
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April 1st, 2006 at 4:23 pm
Let’s get naked :D
April 1st, 2006 at 4:38 pm
Graet idea! i’m in
April 1st, 2006 at 5:13 pm
Sounds funny and pretty good.
Let’s strip and get naked :)))
My website is definitely through it!
April 1st, 2006 at 6:00 pm
Whoooooweeee. Quite the folks rolling in! Thanks everyone for blogging about it on your personal sites, even though I have no idea what half of you are saying because I only speak english and spanish; Can’t do the Japanese or the German or French…and the other dozen I stumbled upon.
I’ve gone through all the sites in the comments who opted to join and updated the Naked Subsite so you can check that out.
Also, I thought it would only be fair to store everyone into a massive array and shuffle it so on every page load the sites will be in random order.
Again, this is awesome to see the participation. Four more days then off come the clothes (er, I mean, style sheets).
April 1st, 2006 at 8:03 pm
Yeah sure, I’ll do it.
April 1st, 2006 at 8:16 pm
Just pointing out that Webstock has just done this as an environmentally conscious guesture.
April 1st, 2006 at 8:26 pm
those cool cats organising webstock (webstock.org.nz) already stripped off and have been strutting around naked since friday.
April 1st, 2006 at 9:10 pm
Sounds awesome, I’m in!
April 1st, 2006 at 11:17 pm
Sure, count me in!
April 1st, 2006 at 11:59 pm
Count me in as well. ZenBB/ZenSys will go naked for that day.
April 2nd, 2006 at 1:10 am
Count me in. Should be a fun day.
April 2nd, 2006 at 1:18 am
I’m in!
April 2nd, 2006 at 1:30 am
Great Idea! I’m in! :))
April 2nd, 2006 at 3:02 am
I’ll be with you :)
April 2nd, 2006 at 3:04 am
Love the idea Dustin, we are in. And we will go starkers a bit longer too, seeing as our Australian timezone is so different.
April 2nd, 2006 at 3:29 am
Me too!
April 2nd, 2006 at 3:21 am
East Frisia (near the northsea coast, some assume its a little part of germany ;) also participates. Great idea!
April 2nd, 2006 at 3:52 am
Good idea !
I’m in !
April 2nd, 2006 at 5:00 am
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April 2nd, 2006 at 5:37 am
Graet idea! Count me in.
April 2nd, 2006 at 5:43 am
Might as well! Soudns good, www.blog-of-chris.com will be naked, hooray. Even though no one ever comes to my site anyway…
April 2nd, 2006 at 5:58 am
I’ll definitely participate in this. Awesome idea!
Looking forward to getting naked…
April 2nd, 2006 at 6:02 am
@Dustin: I’ll be happy to translate all the swedish posts you can identify ;)
April 2nd, 2006 at 6:46 am
I’m in too !
April 2nd, 2006 at 6:57 am
I’m in baby; great idea!
April 2nd, 2006 at 7:36 am
Cool . I’m in.
April 2nd, 2006 at 7:43 am
[…] …mach dich nackich: first annual naked day am 05. april 2006. da mach ich doch glatt mit! […]
April 2nd, 2006 at 8:08 am
pls post the PHP code to disable CSS only the 5th..
April 2nd, 2006 at 9:01 am
I’m in!
April 2nd, 2006 at 9:04 am
I would, but my site’s down ’til May 1st.
Oh, and guys, don’t forget to Digg it!
April 2nd, 2006 at 9:15 am
Sounds great! Count me in ;)
April 2nd, 2006 at 9:19 am
s21 shall prance around nekkid for the entire day of the 5th! Congratulations for this wonderful idea. :)
April 2nd, 2006 at 9:27 am
Too good an idea to resist… count me in.
April 2nd, 2006 at 9:27 am
Cool idea, I’ll get naked as well!
April 2nd, 2006 at 10:01 am
I’m in and I made a simple how-to page for WordPress users.
April 2nd, 2006 at 10:04 am
Sounds great, I’m in!
April 2nd, 2006 at 10:14 am
Cool idea, count me in please!
April 2nd, 2006 at 10:39 am
[…] 這個活動由 Dustin Diaz 所發起，看起來很有趣，所以我也參加了，4月5日當天如果讀不到 CSS 樣式請不要緊張，那是正常的。另外這裡還有人寫好了 WordPress 準備事宜，真的是很方便，比參加重開機日容易太多了！ XD […]
April 2nd, 2006 at 10:40 am
Awesome…I’m in
April 2nd, 2006 at 10:40 am
LET’S GET NAKED!!! Wooo Woooo I feel draft :-\
April 2nd, 2006 at 10:40 am
Im in.
April 2nd, 2006 at 10:40 am
i am totally in.
http://www.smoothweb.net
April 2nd, 2006 at 10:41 am
sounds intereting, IT people could be so full of sense of fun. i am totally on!
April 2nd, 2006 at 10:43 am
I’m in!
April 2nd, 2006 at 10:47 am
Great idea, definitely count me in :)
April 2nd, 2006 at 10:48 am
Very nice idea, I’m in.
April 2nd, 2006 at 10:50 am
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April 2nd, 2006 at 10:50 am
Sure I’ll do it.
April 2nd, 2006 at 10:51 am
I’m down - Serene Green will be in the buff for the day.
April 2nd, 2006 at 10:52 am
By the way, on my site (DarkLordFoxx Media), I’m participating but I’m also adding a link to turn the style back on (through the wonders of PHP). That way they can browse as they want.
April 2nd, 2006 at 10:53 am
Count me in, I would go naked anytime!
April 2nd, 2006 at 10:55 am
I support this idea, so naked it is! Pleasuring spreading blog post on the way.
April 2nd, 2006 at 10:56 am
I’m in, cool idea.
April 2nd, 2006 at 11:01 am
Oh man, CSS is a huge part of my site, without it, my site would look awful…So count me in!
April 2nd, 2006 at 11:06 am
I will be participating. My site is TheOneGreatX.com
April 2nd, 2006 at 11:12 am
I may be doing something I might regret, but I’ve automated my site. It’ll now refuse to show stylesheets at all on April 5th of any year (server time).
I hope you keep up the annual thing, otherwise I’m going to look very stupid next year. :)
April 2nd, 2006 at 11:14 am
Hey,
Cool idea. Count me in!
April 2nd, 2006 at 11:14 am
It’s no CSS Reboot, but a fun idea nevertheless. I’m in!
April 2nd, 2006 at 11:15 am
I’m in :)
April 2nd, 2006 at 11:15 am
Well im in ;) Sounds like fun hehe :D
www.reflection-design.dk will be css-less april 5th :D
April 2nd, 2006 at 11:17 am
I’m so in!
April 2nd, 2006 at 11:20 am
This is a fun idea, fully in line with the reasons for creating CSS in the first place. While most designers are attracted by the extra presentational capabilities, saving HTML from becoming a presentational language was probably a more important motivation for most people who participated in the beginning.
BTW, shift-G in Opera turns off author style sheets.
April 2nd, 2006 at 11:20 am
Although we sell t-shirts (and make our money on clothing people), this is just too good an idea to pass up (that…and we just can’t help but get naked at the drop of a hat).
52tease.com is happy to join the ranks of Naked Day (even though we are an Internet commerce site).
April 2nd, 2006 at 11:21 am
This may kill the REALITYb site,
but count us in ! :)
April 2nd, 2006 at 11:26 am
I’m in, too! Although my blog is in german :)
April 2nd, 2006 at 11:29 am
Made the front page of Digg, a definate digg for me, and yes my website/blog will be participating.
April 2nd, 2006 at 11:32 am
http://raven.ch/ , http://music.raven.ch/ , http://bahnhofstrasse14.info/ and http://red-rocket.org/ will be naked…
April 2nd, 2006 at 11:35 am
I will be participating with two of my websites: http://c.anvas.es/ and http://www.maraby.com/. (The Canvas website is the homepage for my web application development framework for PHP5, and the Maraby site is my personal blog.)
M.T.
April 2nd, 2006 at 11:37 am
Cool! I’m in with http://waveride.net and http://51times.tv (not in english thou!)
April 2nd, 2006 at 11:39 am
I’m all up for it, so count me in as well.
Granted, K2 did a lot of the work with the markup, but I hacked it to pieces!
April 2nd, 2006 at 11:41 am
My blog too! :)
April 2nd, 2006 at 11:42 am
I’m in!
April 2nd, 2006 at 11:42 am
We’re in!
April 2nd, 2006 at 11:44 am
Cool :). I’ll do it ;)
April 2nd, 2006 at 11:47 am
You can count me in. paleckhosting.com will be participating in this!
-paleck
April 2nd, 2006 at 11:47 am
Ill try it out!
April 2nd, 2006 at 11:47 am
I’m on it!
Great idea.
April 2nd, 2006 at 11:57 am
i’m in
April 2nd, 2006 at 11:59 am
Sign me up :: MyDrinkinFamily.com
April 2nd, 2006 at 12:01 pm
Count me in.
Nice idea.
April 2nd, 2006 at 12:08 pm
Are pants needed for this endevaor?
April 2nd, 2006 at 12:08 pm
Hehe, awesome, I’m in!
April 2nd, 2006 at 12:10 pm
Hey , Nice job , I am in too .
April 2nd, 2006 at 12:11 pm
MustacheCompetition.com will be naked on April 5. Our mustaches, however, will remain.
April 2nd, 2006 at 12:13 pm
[…] [Link] […]
April 2nd, 2006 at 12:23 pm
Count me in at http://www.splashofstyle.com
Now I have to set an alarm reminder in iCal so I don’t forget!
April 2nd, 2006 at 12:29 pm
wiiiie, count me in for the fun !
April 2nd, 2006 at 12:58 pm
i’m in :)
http://www.sikander.org/
April 2nd, 2006 at 1:01 pm
All of my sites will be completely naked April 5th! selbyk.com PrimeSpace , and IPTerminal.
April 2nd, 2006 at 1:18 pm
Very cool. I will participate as well :)
April 2nd, 2006 at 1:21 pm
let my site be one of those please! and why a comment i left here before is gone ?
April 2nd, 2006 at 1:28 pm
[…] First Annual Naked Day: On April 5th you will be able to catch numerous websites with their stylesheets down. […]
April 2nd, 2006 at 1:29 pm
hehe, count me in!
April 2nd, 2006 at 1:42 pm
ShakaWeb is going naked. Great idea!
April 2nd, 2006 at 1:47 pm
I’m in… Now to work on a quick php script that will disable the css for AnalogPanda that day.
April 2nd, 2006 at 1:49 pm
Ok so, I realize at this point that maybe a post to my blog wasn’t necessarily the best idea to maintain this. Not to mention keeping track of everyone’s site in the comments is a bit harder than I thought it was going to be. Looking back on it, it would have been best just to make a simple form for those who want to participate.
Aside from the matter, ah what the heck! This is indeed a good problem to have :D - I’ll continue to accept everyones site.
If you haven’t noticed, I’ve been taking your name that you’re posting with, and the URL that you posted with. Unless however you specifically mention a different name or URL inside the post, I’ll use that instead.
And of course once again, thanks all for participating. I think it’s about time I get a good explanation of what the purpose and goal of “CSS Naked Day” is all about. I’ll post that soon after I add everyones site to the list.
Also, another big thanks for those who have translated this into your native languages. I’ve seen Naked Day postings in German, French, Russian, Spanish, Japanese, and perhaps others that I just don’t recognize. This is great!
Also keep in mind that this will be an annual event. With over 200 folks thus far, it will surely live on!
April 2nd, 2006 at 1:54 pm
I had to ask my partners in crime (it’s not a personal blog) but I got the ok, así que añádeme a la lista, Dustin ;-)
The design/code is from Summer’04. Some sections of the website are more recent, and it shows in the source. There’s a couple of tables yet :( but I think it will hold for a day :)
April 2nd, 2006 at 1:54 pm
[…] Es por eso que Dustin Diaz ha propuesto que se elimine por un da las hojas de CSS en un blog. Yo estoy de acuerdo con l. Me parece que no hay mejor manera para mejorar que revisar el diseo de nuestras pginas… desde las entraas. […]
April 2nd, 2006 at 2:02 pm
Oh that’s funny - but man, I’m not sure I can do that, as EVERYTHING is css - even the layout. It will just be one long stream of text.
April 2nd, 2006 at 2:10 pm
Well, just for a preview I’ve took out the CSS on a seperate file:
Regular home page:
http://www.bigpawsonly.com/home.php
No CSS
http://www.bigpawsonly.com/home-no-css.php
That’s some serious damage heh.
Michael
April 2nd, 2006 at 2:15 pm
l0b0land and fil.tero.us (both at the same address) are in! Really good idea!
Let’s all get some nice markup in there in the meantime. Suggestion of the day: fieldset
April 2nd, 2006 at 2:19 pm
[…] This is pretty funny - on April 5th, webmasters everywhere are joining the Anual Naked CSS Day, which requires one to pull the style sheets from a website. […]
April 2nd, 2006 at 2:20 pm
I’ll be naked. :) This is genius.
April 2nd, 2006 at 2:29 pm
[…] First Annual Naked Day: April 05. […]
April 2nd, 2006 at 2:42 pm
Additionally, my other website will go nude.
April 2nd, 2006 at 2:51 pm
Although when considered directly it does technically defeat the purpose, all of us who use MySpace (just admit it) should try to spread to word there. True, disabling the custom css on your MySpace doesn’t actually prove anything about your (or MySpace’s) ability to write proper markup, but I do think it’s still an effective way to spread awareness and speak out in support of the project’s efforts.
So come May 5th, take away all that flashy stuff from your MySpace as well. Stick up a notice like the one provided above, and when people wonder why your page got so ugly, there’s a chance they might get the chance to become one more (we need all we can get) enlightened individual. If things go well, they might even do the same. Awareness is the most important thing here, so any attention at all is good.
MySpace has this wonderfully annoying “bulletin” system that’s been the catalyst for several small and large rapid spreadings of information - Let’s make use of it the best we can. I’m no writer, but if someone could start a bulletin spreading, make use of the “Naked Day” title, it might have an effect worth our efferts.
April 2nd, 2006 at 2:54 pm
Brilliant idea, Dustin! Why did no one ever think of this before?
I’m going naked too on April 5th :D
Count me in :)
Hey, how about we have this every year from now and make it official as well? What say? :)
April 2nd, 2006 at 3:11 pm
Also will be supporting the Naked CSS Style!! Woohoo!
April 2nd, 2006 at 3:24 pm
what the hell, might make things look better
April 2nd, 2006 at 3:28 pm
[…] More details on how you can participate can be found here. Share and Enjoy:These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. […]
April 2nd, 2006 at 3:36 pm
Count me in!
April 2nd, 2006 at 3:42 pm
I’m definitely doing this, there are times when I think my site looks better without styles.
April 2nd, 2006 at 3:53 pm
Count me in too :) .. though I am not mark-up guru.
Nice unique idea.
regards,
Zaigham
April 2nd, 2006 at 3:56 pm
I always liked nakedness.
April 2nd, 2006 at 4:14 pm
davidiffland.com is in.
Great idea.
April 2nd, 2006 at 4:28 pm
itll be interesting.. count us in!
April 2nd, 2006 at 4:39 pm
I’m in.
April 2nd, 2006 at 4:51 pm
This is a FANTASTIC IDEA. Count us in. WWW.MERCWORKS.NET WILL BE NAKED!!!
April 2nd, 2006 at 5:35 pm
Fabulous idea! I spend so much friggin’ time tweaking the CSS, and I’m constantly changing designs. Getting NAKED for a day will help clear my head and maybe we can all put a few things in perspective. This should definitely be an annual event.
But really, Dustin, something about the pic of you and Cameron at SXSW twigged this idea, right?
April 2nd, 2006 at 5:44 pm
I will definitely be doing this. Great idea!
http://hacktek.net
April 2nd, 2006 at 5:56 pm
[…] That’s right, on April 5th the Auldridges are gettin’ NAKED! At least, the site is going naked. In honor of the first annual Naked Day, started by Dustin Diaz, the Auldridge site will shed it’s CSS. […]
April 2nd, 2006 at 6:07 pm
I think a good way to describe what we’re doing (or going to do) is simply to show that websites can still be functional and look remotely good without any styling (via CSS). This shows that the internal structure of page (the (X)HTML markup) makes sense beyond what it actually looks like.
By the way, your site looks fantastic.
M.T.
April 2nd, 2006 at 6:19 pm
I’m in. Wordpress Hacks activated!
April 2nd, 2006 at 6:26 pm
[…] In the interests of educating about web standards, I’m joining in with the First Annual CSS Naked Day, which is April 5th. It should be good. If you can’t wait till Naked Day, you can view any page on this site by tacking ?gonaked=1 on the end of any url, or view this page naked. […]
April 2nd, 2006 at 6:40 pm
HAHA!!! I’m in! Sounds like fun!
April 2nd, 2006 at 6:56 pm
hm… I’m pretty new to this whole CSS-only markup so I’m still learning, but I’d love to participate :)
April 2nd, 2006 at 7:31 pm
yeh,let me in! good idea!
April 2nd, 2006 at 7:32 pm
I have gone ahead and used a bit of PHP to schedule my page to automatically go into naked mode for the entire 24 hours of Apr 5.
April 2nd, 2006 at 7:40 pm
@Jim
I’ve done the same thing. I can just leave the code in a header file and never have to remember to remove my css, very handy if it does become a regular event.
:)
April 2nd, 2006 at 8:16 pm
I’ll be getting naked for sure.
April 2nd, 2006 at 8:20 pm
[…] Dustindiaz.com esta promoviendo que por este día todos los webmasters retiren su “stylesheet” u hoja CSS de su sitio. […]
April 2nd, 2006 at 8:40 pm
count me in!
sounds interesting… :D
April 2nd, 2006 at 8:46 pm
Haha, excellent! I’ll be in!
April 2nd, 2006 at 9:32 pm
Sounds good.
April 2nd, 2006 at 9:39 pm
Count me in… greetings from Indonesia!
April 2nd, 2006 at 9:52 pm
[…] Heard about this on Digg. Basically, on April 5, webmasters all around will strip their sites of stylesheets, rendering the site “naked;” exposing the markup underneath. […]
April 2nd, 2006 at 10:24 pm
Not so very long ago, all I ever did was lurk around the sites of the masters.
Now I’m going buck-naked with them. Let’s hope for nice weather on the 5th.
Count me in…
April 2nd, 2006 at 10:37 pm
Like me, my site will be pasty and white for naked website day!
April 2nd, 2006 at 10:41 pm
Count both my blogs in:
1. http://www.itchyhands.com
2. http://david.itchyhands.com
Should’ve done it on the 1st though, I feel.
David (the lurker)
April 2nd, 2006 at 10:51 pm
[…] via Dustin Diaz.com […]
April 2nd, 2006 at 11:28 pm
I’m in too!
April 2nd, 2006 at 11:53 pm
Count 2 of my sites in:
http://cssliquid.com
http://christianmontoya.com
I implemented the Wordpress function on both so it should go fine.
April 2nd, 2006 at 11:55 pm
OK, I will have my blog naked on the day. ;-)
April 3rd, 2006 at 12:10 am
The function is_naked_day() can be done much simpler:
April 3rd, 2006 at 12:14 am
oops, the function was missing:
function is_naked_day() {
return date(’md’)==’0405′;
}
April 3rd, 2006 at 12:23 am
Oooook!
April 3rd, 2006 at 12:35 am
[…] I am a long time reader of Dustin Diaz and was excited to read that he envisioned the First Annual Naked Day. The idea is that on April 5th, 2006, Web sites will remove the style and let their markup flow in the wind. I couldn’t welcome this idea more. […]
April 3rd, 2006 at 12:35 am
Not only will I participate, but I shall do so mere days after launching a new design… which will actually be launching sometime later tonight, including spiffy php code for ‘getting naked’, which, btw, is the most likely title of the next pdf book from 37signals… ;)
April 3rd, 2006 at 12:39 am
@Red, the is_naked_day() function that Luke wrote is preferred. The one you posted does not take into account “Everywhere in the world.” In other words, I was looking for something more international so it would return true if it’s april 5th in any time zone :) But indeed, that works too.
April 3rd, 2006 at 12:46 am
I am inside too ! :)
April 3rd, 2006 at 1:21 am
[…] This is a minor big deal in the web world. Credit to Dustin Diaz for coming up with the idea. To those who don’t understand: CSS is a web maker’s tool for styling a web page. In the early days of the web people used all sorts of tricks just to make their pages look good, but they often only worked on one or two specific internet browsers.[…]
April 3rd, 2006 at 1:29 am
I’ll be joining the is_naked_day() band wagon ;)
April 3rd, 2006 at 1:42 am
I’ll do it, too!
April 3rd, 2006 at 1:45 am
Dustin, posted on webstandards.org now:
http://www.webstandards.org/2006/04/03/get-naked/
It would be great if you could put an id by the PHP code snippet so that I can hotlink right to that point, nudge nudge
April 3rd, 2006 at 1:51 am
I am naked right now. Oh, you mean CSS naked. Oops! My bad!
I’ll do this if I can remember. Count me in.
Here via Digg.
April 3rd, 2006 at 1:58 am
Count me in :D
April 3rd, 2006 at 2:20 am
I’m definitely gonna participate. Great idea Dustin!
April 3rd, 2006 at 2:26 am
Hi Dustin;
this is a good idea!!
Count me in… greetings from Italy!
April 3rd, 2006 at 2:36 am
[…] Desnudo digtal, un día sin CSS, vía En: CSS, outbox — Abril 3, 2006 […]
April 3rd, 2006 at 2:47 am
[…] Leia mais em: http://www.dustindiaz.com/naked-day/ […]
April 3rd, 2006 at 3:21 am
Lol. Count me in for this :)
April 3rd, 2006 at 3:22 am
Yeh count me in for
http://www.nortypig.com
http://www.pigwork.info
http://www.pigpen.info
cheers Dustin
April 3rd, 2006 at 3:32 am
[…] My latest super hero Dustin Diaz of Web standards with Imagination is launching the first annual CSS naked day on April 05, 2006 in the spirit of promoting Web Standards along with good semantic markup and proper hierarchy structures. […]
April 3rd, 2006 at 3:32 am
Really Nice Idea!
I’m in!!
Here is my post about this event in Korean.
http://hyeonseok.com/soojung/web/2006/04/03/236.html
April 3rd, 2006 at 3:36 am
Count me in ;)
April 3rd, 2006 at 3:40 am
[…] Gracias a Desnudo Digital: Tu sitio web sin CSS por un día publicado en fayerwayer, me entero del First Annual Naked Day: April 05. ¿Y en qué consiste éste acontecimiento? En desactivar las hojas de estilos, para promover los estándares web y una apropiada extructura semántica. ¿Sabéis? Me parece una muy buena idea. […]
April 3rd, 2006 at 3:41 am
I’m in, definitely.
April 3rd, 2006 at 3:53 am
Count me in, should be good fun ;)
April 3rd, 2006 at 3:53 am
I’ll participate, too.
April 3rd, 2006 at 4:08 am
[…] [1] First Annual Naked Day: April 05 http://www.dustindiaz.com/naked-day/ […]
April 3rd, 2006 at 4:23 am
[…] No es que Spencer Tunick haya llegado a la Web. Es Dustin Diaz quien ha propuesto el 5 de abril como el primer día anual para despojar a cada sitio web de su hoja de estilo. La idea es promover los estándares de la web junto a una correcta marcación semántica y una apropiada marcación de jerarquías en las páginas web. […]
April 3rd, 2006 at 4:28 am
Sounds like fun! Specially now that Spencer Tunick just have left Venezuela.
We are going to participate, but this time, just our blog will be naked… we are shy ;)
April 3rd, 2006 at 4:34 am
Count me in Dustin :-)
April 3rd, 2006 at 4:41 am
Fantastic idea, looking forward to getting naked with everyone…
April 3rd, 2006 at 4:49 am
People with sifr are gonna have a bit of a problem.
April 3rd, 2006 at 4:57 am
This sounds fun - I shall join in :)
April 3rd, 2006 at 5:02 am
Count me in! Great idea!