CSS Legend Dan Cederholm has star­ted a trend of for­cing a re-design of a site by strip­ping away his CSS and then re-building his site as-live, for all of us to wit­ness. This is a crack­ing idea, and has spawned a couple of fol­low­ers who have taken his lead and done the same.

Here’s why it’s so good; it proves to the great unwashed that a well designed, semantic­ally appro­pri­ate site doesn’t need styl­ing to be usable. Sure it helps, but the if the site is still a great resource to visit, with good con­tent that enter­tains its read­ers, then how ‘good’ the site looks is but a won­der­ful extra cherry on a beau­ti­ful cake of love and dreams.

Oh, and I did it first. Nyah nyah na-nyah nyah! ;)

Damn it! If only I’d kept screengrabs…