CSS Tweakers
I found a pretty neat CSS tool calle csstweak. With it, you can comrpess your CSS files. I took the Primordial Ooze’s very own modified Blue Crush css teme and passed it through the utility. If I left my layout alone, the file shrunk by 7%. If I allowed it to remove whitespace, I saved 13% in size. I suppose this is something you would do if your site started to get popular and your hits were rising and you were struggling for a way to save on bandwidth.
An even more advanced tool can be found over at cleancss.com. Cleancss allows you to not only compress your css, you can reformat it and make it easier to read. This is pretty awesome. As far as compression goes, it took my 11kb original css file and shrunk it to 7kb, about a 36% reduction in size. if I allowed it to nicely format the CSS it still wound up reducing the file from 11kb to 8kb.
All of my css bookmarks can be found on del.icio.us, http://del.icio.us/NickCody/css.
The last CSS link that I’ll mention here is the excellent set of CSS page layout tutorials over at maxdesign.com.au. You’ll learn more about CSS in ten minutes running through those tutorials than you will in ten hours reading your typical textbook.
Trust me.