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Strip that design, get naked.

Published on: April 4, 2006 by Paul Boag

No, the site hasn't screwed up. It's meant to look like this. Never one to miss the opportunity to jump on the nearest bandwagon, I am going naked for the day!

Don't panic, that mental image of me naked will pass in a few years. Fortunately for you I wasn't referring to myself but rather to the boagworld.com site.

Boagworld.com is participating in the first annual CSS naked day. 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; well, a fun play on words. I mean, who doesn't want to get naked?

For more information check out Dustin Diaz' post

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  • Post by Dennis on April 4, 2006 6:49 PM

    Awesome idea!

  • Post by Marcus on April 4, 2006 7:02 PM

    Phew... the Headscape site is still clothed ;)

  • Post by Leigh. on April 4, 2006 7:05 PM

    Hey.. this is great, so clean and quick to navigate. Maybe one day all sites will look like this.

  • Post by Laura on April 4, 2006 9:25 PM

    Hi Paul & Marc,
    I was introduced to Web Standards mostly by listening to your podcasts. I thought CSS was for font-type things only! But since then, I have read a couple of books and few hundred web pages on the subject and am glad to say that I think I have my brain around it. My customers will be getting better sites, and I feel "up to speed". Although I don't think I'm brave enough to go "naked" just yet.

  • Post by Daniel Chesterton on April 4, 2006 9:45 PM

    A few years? I think i need a psychiatrist (and a spell-checker) :p

    On a more serious note, i think it's a great idea and really shows the importance of good semantic xhtml.

  • Post by Paul Boag on April 4, 2006 10:30 PM

    Hey Laura,
    glad to hear we have you onboard!

  • Post by Dustin Diaz on April 5, 2006 12:48 AM

    Thanks Paul for posting this. The more the merrier. Now let's show off how beautiful our <body> can be without css.

  • Post by Robert Hanson on April 5, 2006 2:08 AM

    Ditto what Dustin said, thanks for making us aware of the event. I am all for web standards, and went naked myself.

  • Post by Sheila Thomson on April 5, 2006 9:41 AM

    The contrast between your site fully clothed and naked is amazing - a great example.

  • Post by Luis on April 5, 2006 3:47 PM

    Code gone wild! Show us your text!!!

    Suuch a fantastic idea.

  • Post by Ross Johnson on April 5, 2006 4:40 PM

    Is it weird that I sorta like how naked sites look? Maybe I should have phrased that "un-styled sites" ...

    I do think that unstyled sites can have a nice, easy to read look that sometimes is a nice change from the overly graphic interfaces of many sites.

  • Post by Marcus on April 5, 2006 5:06 PM

    Basically... Nielson was/is right!

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