Find Salvation In CleanCSS
[Southern accent engaged]
Friends. Do coders snicker as they surf by your blog because your cascading style sheet is…well, how should I put this kindly — a bit on the hefty side? Is there a skinny blog inside fighting to reach the light of day, but cannot, will not, SHALL NOT, no matter how hard it tries because the demon whose initials are C.S.S. is clawing its way into the meaty flesh of your blog’s heart?
Save my blog, preacher! Show me the way!
Well, friends, there is salvation. [WOOO!] There is redemption! [Hallelujah!] There is a way to the lighter side where our blog’s sins will be forgiven. [testify, brother, testify!] I have seen the Coding Angel of the Blogosphere and her name, my fellow bloggers is Clean CSS.
Suffer no more the dreaded CSS bloat because it is within her hallowed halls that you too can find a leaner, more glorified blog that will stand up and say, “Thank YEW, Lawdy, thank YEW!”
But what must I sacrifice that my blog may be delivered, preacher?
If we are to be truly free and live among the A-listers, we must show our devotion by making some sacrifice. But fear not, though the prize is great, the cost is small.
The Coding Angel asks nothing more of us than to deliver unto her our style sheets on bended knee and ask that she compress the heck out them! By simply pasting our tainted code into a field of acceptance, our style sheets will be cleansed and be rejuvenated to power our blogs with the light of a thousand suns!
This humble blogger that you see before you went to her today and begged for mercy, “Please!” I cried with teary eyes, “please save my blog!” She kindly took my code of 12K. What she delivered to me was code transformed. Time seemed to stand still as I gazed upon my reborn style sheet! The code I once knew, the one I had carried on my blog’s shoulders as I gnashed my teeth together, was a lofty 7K file!
“Thank YEW,” I said as I ran gleefully back to deliver you, my good friends, the good news.
Follow the light and cast away the darkness of CSS bloat! 
[tags]code,css,style sheets,compress[/tags]
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About the Author: Mark Sierra is an online entrepreneur and web publisher. As the owner of StarFrost Media, he continues to add blogs and products to his online portfolio designed to help inform readers on software and blogging, teach them to be more productive, and even learn how to make money online.
Bobby Revell | Oct 25, 2007 | Reply
Wow, my site’s css has all kinds of mistakes in it. I think most of them are caused from plugins. Do I need to deactivate all my plugins before I try to compress my CSS?
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Mark | Oct 25, 2007 | Reply
@Bobby
I don’t think you have to do that before compressing. You just copy and paste your css file into the field and you save the output as your new css file.
betshopboy | Oct 25, 2007 | Reply
What a well written and fun review of an otherwise “no nonsense” online service. You made it sounds fun and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Thanks Mark!
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Mark | Oct 25, 2007 | Reply
@betshopboy:
Wow, I love that kind of praise. Thanks!
Brown Baron | Oct 26, 2007 | Reply
Lawdy I dun died and gone to heaven
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Mark | Oct 26, 2007 | Reply
@Baron:
LOL
Bobby Revell | Oct 26, 2007 | Reply
Mark is a PR4….YEAH
Good going Mr.PR4 
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Forest Parks | Oct 27, 2007 | Reply
Nice review as normal. I just started paid posts and really need to improve my reviewing techniques.
….Anyway I was just swingin’ by to say that I have tagged you in my new meme http://www.therandomforest.info/2007/10/show-yourself.html
hopefully see you soon!
Mark | Oct 28, 2007 | Reply
@Bobby
Whoa! Must have just happened in the last couple of days. Thanks for noticing.
@Forest
Congratulations on getting to paid reviews. I’ll check out your meme. Thank buddy!
Aaron Cook | Oct 29, 2007 | Reply
LOL, hey buddy…just letting you know that I finally got the “audio commentary” up featuring you as this week’s Link Love Loser Award Winner!
You can check it out now at: Super Link Sunday - Batch #6
Shine little drummer boy. Shine on,
Aaron
Mark | Oct 29, 2007 | Reply
@Aaron:
Cool, I’ll go check it out today.
Kyle Eslick | Oct 29, 2007 | Reply
Very creatively written Mark!
I’ve used Clean CSS quite a bit and really enjoy it. There are a few other similar products as well, but I’ve found that Clean CSS seems to do the best job. It also helped me learn how to code stylesheets a little better so now I don’t have as many mistakes when I use it
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Diana13 | Oct 29, 2007 | Reply
Well, I try Clean CSS and lucky me that I save my previous css first, because it’s messing up my site. Even if it compress my CSS with about 30%, I preffer my long css instead to try to repair the new one. But it’s good to know about it, I’ll use it to fix some css stuff.
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Mark | Oct 29, 2007 | Reply
@Kyle:
Thank you, sir! Glad to know there’s a bonus waiting for those of us who are going to use it more often.
Mark | Oct 29, 2007 | Reply
@Diana13:
Hi Diana. Thanks for stopping by. That’s strange that it would do that. Perhaps it’s best to save an original copy of the CSS, name it something different, then use the compressed result?