Who could resist a chance to get naked?

Getting naked actually shows some of the ugly bits of my blog theme that I'm not that proud of. Some I knew about and don't like, for example the text dividers that I've got between my list items at the top of the page. These markers should be inserted with the CSS. I know more now than I did when I first made the theme, and I think I'd fix it with the :before or :after pseudo-elements. That would generate the "|" symbol I use now. Alternatively I could just use a CSS background. Either way it's not meaningful text, so it shouldn't be there.

Another thing that I don't like, but hadn't realized for some reason, is that my theme has the main content last in document order, so you have to scroll past a whole bunch of menu stuff and my blogroll if you read this page with no CSS. To be honest, I've found WordPress to be finicky when I play with some of these things. My theme (I call it "Seen in SF") is based on the excellent and wildly popular "Connections" theme by Patricia Muller, but either I blew it or she's updated. The way I'll have a go at fixing this issue would be to put my main content up top, then the menu & navigation stuff and use CSS positioning to rearrange things. I always get headaches when I try to mess with CSS positioning though, so I'm not sure I can fix this one.

What I do like about getting naked? My site still works. I went through the PHP of my theme and customized plugins and disabled every style tag I found, and the content is all still there and readable.

This applies to the CSS for style only of course. I use XSLT for a lot more than the "style" that the S is supposedly for. My XSLT examples would be useless without the XSLT part. There might be a couple style tags kicking around in some posts that I've used to tailor things for that article. Actually I have an animation example that uses CSS style properties for background animation. That would also be pretty pointless without rendering CSS. Hacks like those are more about using the mechanics of the browser to entertain, though. I don't know how one would go about separating the presentation of a game from it's meaning.

Anyhow, have a happy Naked Day, how ever you celebrate it ;).