CSS Naked Day

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Well, we're back from last year, and Naked Day '07 is taking the web to full nudity on April 5th.

Where did my Design go?

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>.

How to participate

Fill out the naked day signup form, then your website will be included in the official list within the next 15 minutes.

Then on April 5th, simply remove all CSS from your website, stripping it entirely of its design.

(Optional): Insert the following snippet of markup at the top of your page on the day of.

<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>

This option for those who feel a need to give their visitors a reference as to what's going on. This is not about getting traffic or making money. There are no ads on this site, nor will there ever be. This is about you, the people; getting naked.

Don't think, just strip

Here are a few tools to help you go nude without thinking too much.

Daniel Morrison's Rails css_naked_day plugin
Aja's 48 hour naked day plugin.
Guff's WP: Naked Day plugin.
Different Pixel's Textpattern naked day plugin
Reto's LifeType 1.2 plugin
You have one for another CMS? email me

And of course the bare bones PHP 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;
	}
	return false;
}
?>

Famous Words

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.

Håkon Wium Lie

Drop some love to those in nude

Still growing...

Thanks

To anyone who translated this website into another language, and to anyone who wrote a plugin to make this work.

Who's talking about this...

The Web Standards Project time to get nude again.
Andy Clarke's book Transcending CSS
Jina is going to strip
Blogging Encyclopedia
Connected Internet
xhtml.com
Anieto 2k
CSS Drive
The Blog Herald
The J Spot
Misteryosa: Naked Day Yo!
many, many more...

More quotes

"Learning to create semantic HTML Web pages was a big turning point for me, that also happened to coincide with this the birth of this cool event, so yes, I will be proudly participating in the second CSS Naked Day."
Mahud

Sign up

Sorry, signups for naked day are all over. It was real, and it was fun. Damn, it was really fun. In the meantime, check out the main list above, there might quite a few folks out there running around without a towel.

Best,
Dustin Diaz