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50 New Useful CSS Techniques, Tutorials and Tools
These are great times for front-end developers. After months of exaggerated excitement about HTML5 and CSS3, the web design community now starts coming up with CSS techniques that actually put newly available technologies to practical use instead of abusing them for pure aesthetic purposes. We see fewer “pure CSS images” and more advanced, clever CSS techniques that can actually improve the Web browsing experience of users. And that’s a good thing!
In this post we present recently released CSS techniques, tutorials and tools for you to use and enhance your workflow, thus improving your skills. Please don’t hesitate to comment on this post and let us know how exactly you are using them in your workflow. However, please avoid link dropping, but share your insights and your experience instead. Also, notice that some techniques are not only CSS-based, but use JavaScript, or JavaScript-libraries as well.
The article: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/10/12/50-new-useful-css-techniques-tutorials-and-tools/
Faster Web Pages Using CSS/JavaScript Minification and Consolidation: ASP Alliance
About 70-90% of the time spent waiting for a page on the average web site is actually due to the number of HTTP requests required for images, JavaScript, and CSS files! A key step in improving load times is reducing the number of these requests. Another is reducing the amount of information that has to be transmitted. This article explains how to minify and consolidate CSS and JavaScript files.