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No, the page you are looking at isn’t some avant garde blog template. It’s what Dolphin’s Dock looks like stripped of its external style sheet in celebration of CSS Naked Day ‘08. (Note: I’ve only stripped down the front page so if you’re reading this as an individual post, click here to see the stripped down site.)
For the non-designers out there, some explanation. In the old days (ha!), websites used to largely hold all content and styling together in one HTML file. No more, thanks to a language called CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). CSS allows (among other things) designers to separate design from content, allowing the designer to easily change from one design to another without effecting content, and allowing non-designers to update content at will. As the popularity and usage of CSS has grown, some designers have forgotten (I’m guilty of it from time to time) that the point is to separate design and content, meaning that the content should still be easily available, appropriately organized, and clearly understandable without the style sheet prettying it up.
As the Naked Day website says, “It’s time to show off your <body>.
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April 9th, 2008 at 11:08 amKipEsquire says:
CSS is like Latin — I’d love to learn it, but who has the time?
I can barely remember ALT-0153 every Saturday night when I prep the CuteTuber™ post.
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April 9th, 2008 at 11:36 amdolphin says:
Actually I found CSS to be one of the easiest languages to pick up. BTW, if your entry field allows for HTML entry, you can drop your alt code in favor of the (easier to remember) ™ to create the ™
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April 11th, 2008 at 5:57 pmSouthern Beale says:
Oh you meant your BLOG is naked.
Now, why am I disappointed?
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April 14th, 2008 at 9:48 amdolphin says:
Sorry to disappoint, but it’s just my blog. This time…