CSS3: Visual QuickStart Guide, Sixth Edition

15. CSS Best Practices

In This Chapter

Create Readable Style Sheets

Have a Style Sheet Strategy

Troubleshoot Your CSS Code

View CSS in Firebug or Web Inspector

Validate Your CSS Code

Minify Your CSS

33 CSS Best Practices

It’s not enough to write CSS that makes your pages look pretty: to create the best Web pages, you must also write clean code that’s easy to read, easy to maintain, and loads quickly.

To manage your style sheets you need to know how to create well-organized code, work with CSS libraries and frameworks, optimize the linking of style sheets, validate your CSS, and compress the code by minifying it.

This chapter helps you realize all these goals and finishes with a review of the best practices I’ve presented throughout the book. ...