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Naked Day
Dustin Diaz is organizing the first annual Naked Day. From the website:
<p>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.</p>
<p>I have wrapped the code that Dustin posted to the Naked Day website into a little plugin to make it easier for you to automate Naked Day every year.</p>
Last edited by segfault (2006-04-04 16:02:11)
“A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
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My question about this, is, doesn’t this sort of defeat the purpose of making this easy and recognizable for users? It seems like a great idea for people who are into standards, but not for people who aren’t, or who don’t know better. I can imagine people showing up at a site and thinking “Huh, must be broken, I’ll go on to the next site”. Sort of seems like that defeats the purpose?
Perhaps articles on everyone’s sites with a styleswitcher, which gives the user the option of turning styling off, and lets them know why that’ s important.? I dunno, maybe that’s what I’ll do, if I can figure out how to put a link like that in an article? I think it could be a really great idea, but it just seems like it needs to be thought out carefully first? What do you think?
—- Just thoughts from me, not really opinions :)
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#3 2006-04-04 16:37:50
- alexandra
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I agree with Matthew. Just visited solardreamstudios and it looks awful so i left immediately again. I wait till tomorrow to read up a couple of things. these naked sites are no fun at all though i understand the idea.
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Well, if your website is built correctly, it will still be “easy and recognizable for users” without the style sheet.
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I think it would’ve been a great April Fool’s joke actually. To get a bunch of people to drop their CSS for April 1st would’ve been more appropiate?
Anyway, you can probably put a header or a short paragraph on top saying something like: “Hey, April 5th, Naked Day, is here! The site is not broken. It is just being shown to you in all its naked glory. The design that you are normally used to has been dropped to show you just my content baby!” or some cheeky or funny explanation of the event.
Tis’ good fun methinks. :D
Of course, me being me, I will be the first to notice the absence of the stylesheet on my site and quickly go into panic mode until I realize what day it is. Hehe.
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#6 2006-04-04 17:11:19
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Man, the title of this thread and the reality of the content of the opening post was severly disappointing. :)
I too think that this is a bad idea to thrust something like this onto your visitors. I’d go with ma_smith’s idea and have a style-switcher that switched styling off…maybe linked to one of those hokey, tilted banners that seem to be popping up everywhere. The point being to keep the choice up to the end-user.
I remember an idea that was floated around that involved putting up a notice to IE users that some visual details of the site would be lost due to their use of IE as a browser. This was done to promote not only web-standards, but browsers that suppoerted them better. I didn’t agree with this idea either. Why intentionally draw attention to deficiencys in your site that may not be normally noticed. Also, it could be taken as ridicule for not using the right browser.
I don’t think the majority of the people out there care how something works, they just want it to work, and work correctly according to their expectations. Anything outside of those expectations is just bad mojo.
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Well, I guess you need to know your visitors. For example, not many people come and visit my site. Most of my visitors are friends and fellow web developers in my country. So, I think it’s a great idea for me. It might not be such a hot idea for an online store or for someone who has a site that caters to people who collect antiques. It all depends on knowing your audience. :)
Last edited by segfault (2006-04-04 17:25:44)
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How exactly does this champion standards? It’s the most butt ugly project I’ve ever seen. Were we supposed to “surf” using something other than Firefox to “get the effect”? — Maybe an audio reader or something? I don’t get it. The more I think about it this it really makes the case for designers and the power of CSS but doesn’t teach or demonstrate a thing for standards.
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The idea is that visitors are going to see your site’s underlying HTML, not the pretties that make it fun to look at.
If a site has good content, and the HTML that organizes that content is written well, then users will still be able to find what they’re looking for without needing the styles that nice-ify everything. It’s about showing the world your skill at organizing content rather than your skill at making a cool-looking interface. 364 days a year, visitors see proof of the latter, but this 1 day they see proof of the former – which is just as important (and oft-overlooked) in web design.
It “champions standards” by getting those web developers that understand that organizing your data is important to come out and celebrate that, while at the same time (possibly) calling out to those that don’t that that there’s a lot of work to do. Yes, it is a bit unnecessary, but one can argue that ever moving HTML into graphics-world was unnecessary too.
Of course, if a site has nothing to offer besides prettiness, then no, it doesn’t make sense. Textpattern users may not see the point either, since Textpattern generates the HTML (and they don’t have to think about it as much), and it’s sensible and mostly standards-compliant already.
Last edited by alexburr (2006-04-05 16:08:58)
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Personally, I am not doing it to champion any standards. I just think it’s fun, as I love the word “naked”, and to me, most things that include that word automatically denote fun. I don’t think many people are doing it for any cause apart from having some fun a la CSS Reboot. Fun is fun for its own sake. However, I think it does teach something useful as it demostrates what a little CSS can do to an otherwise butt-ugly (x)html file, for those interested. Other people not interested could just skip the whole thing and carry on in their merry way laughing at the naked people, no? :)
“A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
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segfault wrote:
I love the word “naked” . . . .
:)
carry on in their merry way laughing at the naked people, no?
I found the concept irritating and condescending and naked people without visual “structure” are pretty bad to look at too . . . :) but I get your drift. And I understand the underlying sentiment but the application totally missed its mark for me. It preached to the choir and I doubt brought in any new converts.
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And sure, yes, you can find what you need but is it painful and awkward? Hell, YES!
Last edited by neutrino (2006-04-06 16:04:26)
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Hey Naked Dayers
My logs still show hits from the Naked Day list at the Naked Day site.
For some reason I don’t think they’re visiting to see my once again CSSed site.
Do you suppose they think they’re gonna see…naked people?
Sheesh! Get a life!
M
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