If the results of your CSS designs are inspirational, don’t let speed slow down people seeing your work!

If you notice your style sheets are getting bloated, it may be time to stop and give it the code a good make over. With the following steps and your style sheet will be in shape in no time. Fortunately, there are some great online tools out there for cleaning and optimising  your CSS for you.

Web page analyser:

• Web page analyser – Find out how long your external CSS, JS files take to load

Find redundant CSS code:

• dustmeselectors – Dust-Me Selectors is a Firefox extension (for v1.5 or later) that finds unused CSS selectors.

Learn CSS shorthand:

• CSS shorthand cheatsheet

Optimise, clean up CSS:

• CleanCSS
• Tabifier Works for both HTML and CSS

Wordpress plugins:

• CSS compress

Learn more about CSS management at 456Berea Street.

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