Today is CSS Naked Day 2008, “a world-wide event that lasts for one international day (48 hours) where webmasters around the globe strip CSS from their websites to promote Web Standards with layered semantic markup, and a clear separation between content, and presentation to enhance accessibility” according to Dustin Diaz, the instigator of CSS Naked Day. If you’re reading this during the 48 hour event, you’re viewing my site without any formatting or glitz. If you’re reading this after CSS Naked Day there are other ways to see this page without CSS such as choosing View > Page Style > No Style in Firefox.

CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets and these files contain code with all the formatting for sites. They tell the browser how all the tags and classes should display. Without style sheets developers would have to define each and every instance of a tag, so CSS saves a lot of time and effort and allows for a site to receive a face-lift easily by just replacing the CSS. To see some great examples of the power of CSS, check out csszengarden.com. Select a design from the list on the right side of the homepage to see how much a page can change when only the CSS changes.

Oh, and if you’re here to view my galleries, clicking on a thumbnail will load the image, it’s just way down the page for some reason. I didn’t have to time to fix the code, so I apologize in advance for any inconvenience.