When sites don't load correctly

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When sites don't load correctly

« on: January 31, 2026 @814.17 »

I was just updated my site to add a new fanlisting I joined. When I refreshed my page to see how it looked, it didn't show any of the CSS, It was all just plain HTML. This happens sometimes with different sites, and I always think it's fascinating to see. Is it the same for anyone else when that happens? I don't know, it's just a cool feeling! I mean, I LOVE having my site be colorful and full of pictures, but there's just a certain appeal to more simplified websites. And I was reading some articles on Low Tech Magazine recently that's making me tempted to simplify my website and so this was a cool little glimpse into that world


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Re: When sites don't load correctly

« Reply #1 on: February 01, 2026 @758.21 »

I sometimes enjoy celebrating CSS Naked Day. The idea is that every 9 April, you strip all CSS from your site (or, as the site puts it, "show off your ~~sexy~~ semantic <body>!").

I'm firmly of the belief that a truly great site should be fully usable with no JS and no CSS. It wouldn't necessarily be nice; it won't necessarily be pretty; but it'll work and the content will be readable, after a fashion. If you're using your HTML elements semantically (which is a good idea anyway from an accessibility and usability perspective) then you should be okay... but I manage to surprise myself a little every year!

In a recent year's celebrations, for example, I realised that I was serving oversized avatar images representing people who'd commented on my blog posts, and I was resizing them only in CSS. When the CSS was gone, the images were painfully large. So I made them smaller. Now my site loads faster whether or not you have CSS, because the images are properly-sized, and the site is more-readable when CSS "fails" (which it can for a variety of reasons, as @ABlueRose has seen!).


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Re: When sites don't load correctly

« Reply #2 on: February 01, 2026 @769.92 »

Quote from: Dan Q on February 01, 2026 @758.21

The idea is that every 9 April, you strip all CSS from your site (or, as the site puts it, "show off your sexy semantic <body>!").

i would fail css naked day and it would fail me

also i had no idea there was such a day

that day is now my mortal nemesis :3


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Re: When sites don't load correctly

« Reply #3 on: February 01, 2026 @884.71 »

Quote from: Dan Q on February 01, 2026 @758.21

I sometimes enjoy celebrating CSS Naked Day. The idea is that every 9 April, you strip all CSS from your site

Ooo! I've never heard of that before, but that sounds so cool! I'm going to have to mark that down, so I remember to participate this year. And making my website as usable as possible even without CSS and JS sounds like a fun challenge! Although, I will admit JS is such a pain in the neck for me to learn that I just gave up. The only JS on my website is one of my journal entries that's like "Look! I learned how to make a pop up appear if you click this!" and that's it lol


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