My website is naked! Or, if you're reading this at a later date, was naked. Why have I ripped off my stylesheets and exposed my bare HTML body? Well, today is the first annual CSS Naked Day! It's the one day of the year randomly chosen for websites to show their full monty, and I'm happy to participate.

If you visit this site regularly, you may have noticed that the page has been getting progressively plain over the last few days. That's because nudity is much more provocative if you do a nice strip routine first. Come on, you know you want to touch my busty divs.

The purpose of CSS Naked Day is to promote the use of semantic markup and separation of content and presentation. If you aren't a web developer, nothing I just said made any sense. If you are a web developer and it still didn't make sense, stop using FrontPage and start learning real web design.

I must admit, the markup of this site is very far from ideal. There are far too many div and span elements, in order to set up my CSS tables. This clearly shows some of the limitations of CSS 2.1, which are already being solved in the totally sweeter-than-ninjas CSS 3 pseudo-element model coming soon to a spec near you. But overuse of divs aside (Until CSS 3 is widely supported, it is a relatively minor offense), I have as always attempted to use semantic markup.

No, semantic markup has nothing to do with software security or Jewish people. Semantic markup is a meaningless religion whose leaders are most often spotted in traditional garb and carrying dictionaries and spell-checkers. But for some reason, search engines, screen readers, and other agents that interpret markup seem to really dig it, so people should probably use it. It also helps your page look less fugly on CSS Naked Day, which is the real benefit and reason large companies are investing a significant amount of money to get their pages rewritten with semantic markup.

So happy CSS Naked Day, and please send your nearest webmaster a truckload of money. Naked bodies are always sexier when covered in money.