I started in this business as a CSS-code-monkey, and have since grown into sooo much more, but my recommendation is as follows.
AOL Music [http://music.aol.com] has a combined stylesheet weight of 101k. This is quite heavy, but it shows how stylesheets can grow as the website grows. Try and keep your stylesheet under 10k, especially since your target audience was 56k users and html code will add to the overall weight of the pages. Use one-line css declarations, no spaces between attributes and values. This should all help in keeping the file size small. ~Nate -------- Nathan Bittinger Senior Developer Siteworx Inc -------- -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 12:10 PM To: CSS List Subject: [css-d] Stylesheet size Is there a general standard for acceptable stylesheet size? To keep specific pages down in size I find myself frequently adding if/else clauses to the header include file which tests a page filename. If the name is whatever... then a supplemental stylesheet is included, same with javascript includes. The idea is to trim out whatever is not necessary to aid in fast upload time. The goal is to get pages to load in around 10 seconds on a 56k modem connection, thus assuring superfast delivery on broadband. It seems to be a question of balance. -Bob ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
