Comments on: 5 Step Style Sheet Weight Loss Program

By: Ali Raza

Ali Raza — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 13:02:10 +0000

What If a page requires just 5 basic classes of css to show up properly.. by combining all the css of your website you are making that specific page load the complete css file for no reason.. I agree with the @import functionality.

By: Nir Gavish

Nir Gavish — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 19:10:26 +0000

I agree with most of this article, except that you really shouldn’t @import. Apart from the fact that CSS should generaly be small enough to fit in a single file – the import directive causes the browser to send out more requests, that means slow page loads, but also more outgoing traffic from the server (even if you cahce and expire like you should, some clients will still pull the files on every load).

What you really should be looking into is code that will splice all your seperate CSSs into one for production. Plenty of projects (both commercial and open source) do that.

By: Reysler

Reysler — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:14:00 +0000

Nice! Thx…

By: PhpMyCoder

PhpMyCoder — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 14:54:50 +0000

Awesome post! Good tips! I would also have to argue though that when designing, it might be a good idea to have multiple stylesheets to keep everthing organized (I’m practically OCD, so I’ll usually have several sheets for a project), but when you deploy your site, the CSS should be condensed down into the least number of file. As an added bonus, and possibly number six on your list, compression. I guess you could argue that it’s not optimization, but shaving some KB’s off a stylesheet is a great way to decrease load time on a site (Only slightly though, now-a-days everyone has DSL or HSI so a few kilobytes don’t make much of a difference). But anyway, I enjoyed the post. Keep it up!

By: Lu Huan

Lu Huan — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 02:58:51 +0000

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By: SUNIL VJ

SUNIL VJ — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:05:11 +0000

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By: Benga

Benga — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:51:24 +0000

Interesting article. the more white space you have in your styles, the easier it will be to maintain, depending on the complexity of the site.

Benga creative

By: JuksWebGuy

JuksWebGuy — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 06:08:03 +0000

looking for css optimization, and found this page. page bookmarked.

By: Melina

Melina — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 03:01:36 +0000

Good information thank you I’m learning something new every day the information like this.

By: everlearner

everlearner — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 02:45:43 +0000

Thanks Soh
Your explanations are clear to understand for every one.

I also use different css files for different parts of the sites, layout.css, cart.css etc.
So we can deliver the right css files to the right part of the sites.
I believe it is more easier to control and maintain.