For those who don’t know, “CSS Naked Day” is once a year, where design-related bloggers remove their CSS files for the 24 hour period starting April 9th.
I got a little frustrated yesterday, having to redesign tabs for work while looking for resources on a good two-layer tabbed navigation, many of the sites that usually have good examples were “Naked” yesterday.
At this moment I realized “CSS Naked Day” went against good usability practices that state your site should be accessible and usable. Looking for sites that normally would have been great resources for HTML and CSS became rather impossible to see the examples.
I decided not to remove my CSS files I wouldn’t have had an alternative of allowing CSS to be enabled. WordPress has a CSS Naked Day plugin — I suggest that perhaps an alternative link at the top of the page that says “Enable CSS” would suffice with a brief explanation of why the original design is missing in the first place.
Miguel Sanchez
April 12, 2008 at 11:51 pm
wow, ive never seen such a great blog as this one! Keep up the good work!
chovy
July 2, 2008 at 11:45 am
true…i was having a bit of frustration which prompted the post.
I fully support the use and participation of Get Naked day.
pleyboy
December 31, 2009 at 7:41 am
Very interesting stuff about How “CSS Naked Day” became “Un-usable Day” « Chovy’s Blog . Thanks and keep up the good work. Merry christmas to u all ;)