Lines of markup code per website are growing at a hurried pace these days. JavaScript and CSS files are getting bigger by the day. But you want to keep your site lean and speedy and avoid from becoming slow and bloated. There are some basic techniques I use to optimize JavaScript files and the same ideas can be applied to CSS and HTML files as well. I’ll briefly cover 4 popular solutions, namely validating, joining, shrinking and compressing your markup source code. Continue »

I am a firm believer in reducing code and optimizing page load to speed up browsing. CSS is one of those places where we can try to compress our code using shorthand notation. It is also much cooler and faster to write code once you learn all the shorthand tricks. The Font tag is one of the trickiest shorthand notations around, and I have noticed that many people shy away from using this specific shorthand notation.
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Douglas Bowman’s The Beauty and Business of CSS slide show presents insight into how CSS can benefit both the user and the owner. Having looked at these pages makes me want to redo the theme for my page. I hope to have some time to do that pretty soon.

A good article about the writing compact and smart css. Covers shorthand, the clock, and default values.