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CSS CSS Layout Techniques Display Modes Which CSS Reset Method Should I Use?

Wesley Picotte
Wesley Picotte
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Posted by Wesley Picotte
Wesley Picotte
1,531 Points

Embed or link to reset css?

My question pertains to site speed.

I typically use Normalize as my reset css styles and to minimize server calls and generally optimize page load speed, will paste it into the top of my site stylesheet and then, when development is done, minify it.

What's your POV on this practice? Better to link separately to the file in the head section, or???

3 Answers

Dave McFarland
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Dave McFarland
Treehouse Teacher
Dave McFarland
Dave McFarland
Treehouse Teacher

Sounds like a good approach Wesley Picotte You do want to minimize server calls -- multiple calls for files can lead to a big performance hit, much more than one call to a larger file. The fact that you're minifying before production is great -- this will make the file much smaller, and with only a single call for CSS, you're doing a great job.

Martin Ruston
Martin Ruston
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Martin Ruston
Martin Ruston
30,736 Points

Personally I do the same, although I use Sass to compile a number of individual stylesheets into one minified production stylesheet.

Wesley Picotte
Wesley Picotte
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Wesley Picotte
Wesley Picotte
1,531 Points

Thanks guys. Martin Ruston, I'm looking forward to learning more about Sass; part of the reason I'm here.

Dave McFarland
Dave McFarland
Treehouse Teacher
Dave McFarland
Dave McFarland
Treehouse Teacher

Definitely! And you're not going to get much better than our SASS course -- http://teamtreehouse.com/library/sass-basics. Taught by none other than Hampton Catlin the creator of SASS.

Martin Ruston
Martin Ruston
30,736 Points

Yes the Sass course was great and I learnt a lot from it and will go over the videos again at some point to pick up more tips. I originally started to use Sass to spit my stylesheet down into modules of vanilla CSS as I've since started to use variables for variables (for colours etc. to make maintenance easier), I now need to start making use of nesting and mixins. It is changing the way that I write CSS for the better.