Depending on how many notes or messy modifications you make to your cascading style sheets, you might be about due for a little compression.  By shrinking you external CSS files, you can save the bandwidth it takes to download them, each time somebody visits your web site. 

Now how much optimization should you do?  Well, the CSS files should be small enough to load quickly, however readable enough to where you know what does what where, and why.  You have to balance size with readability.

Here are my three favorite online tools to help optimize and shrink my CSS files:

• CSSCompressor.com
• CSSOptimiser.com
• CleanCSS.com

By using any of these three solutions, you can reduce the CSS code size and make your web pages load faster.  They all allow you to choose from multiple degrees of compression, and they are all very quick too.

Related Tips and Tricks:

• Speed Up Pages by Combining External CSS
• Wizzypage – Great (and free!) Web Site Editor
• Best Web Site Speed Analyzers

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How does the old saying go?  It isn’t cheating if you don’t get caught?  Well, don’t tell anybody I gave you these two great CSS cheat sheets!  Web designers rejoice, as these are two of the most handy things you can have, well… handy when it comes to cascading style sheets.

• CSS Cheat Sheet vs2 – via addedbytes.com
• CSS Cheat Sheet via LeslieFranke.com

Know of anymore cheat sheets from around the Web that you get a lot of use out of?  Let us know in the comments!

Related Tips and Tricks:

• Wizzypage – Great (and free!) Web Site Editor
• CSS Round Box Generator
• Free Design Stencil Kit from Yahoo!

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