The idea of boycotting DKOS (and all other sites) for Earth Hour, or even shutting it down completely, is currently being discussed.
I would like to suggest a less radical approach: Do the same as Google Denmark is currently doing - change the color scheme to gray on black. If the site is back to normal when you visit it, you can look at Blackle instead
This change in colors would serve two purposes:
- It reminds every visitor of Earth Hour
- It reduces the power consumption of the visitors screen.
Note: I do not know the reduction in power consumption - nor am I even sure it is measurable. Any one who knows, please feel free to comment
UPDATE: It seems this may not reduce consumption at all for LCD's. Since the effect is probably neglible anyway, please ignore point 2 above.
Implementation details and DIY instructions for your own site below the fold.
I did a little testing, and Daily Kos can be turned gray on black (with a few bits of orange) by just a few lines of code:
* {
background-color: black !important;
color: #DDD !important
}
The fix is not perfect. For instance, it does not change graphical elements (like the header image). I also chose not to remove the orange borders on boxes - since they let the site keep a bit of its graphical identity during the blackout.
The same code worked for the majority of sites that I tried it on - so if you want to have your own website participating, try adding those lines to your stylesheet. If you want to test it before you make he change, the Web Developer Toolbar extension to Firefox lets you test out such changes to the CSS of a site (there is a similar add-on for Internet Explorer, but i have not tried it).
If you have only a few images, you may even want to make black/grey versions of them using image editing software. Remember to keep a copy of the originals!
If you site is normally using black borders (which will become invisible with this scheme) you can use this additional CSS for making them appear in gray.
* {
border-color: #DDD !important
}