Using CSS sprites and tactical design strategies to speed up your theme

While it’s actually not technically possible to achieve all design possibilities by using a single sprite, good planning allows you to get away with more than usual. You can see the main image above that gets sliced & arranged in CSS into the final theme. Clocks in at a modest 29k. By comparison, the standalone jquery library compressed is 15k. more: www.developmentseed.org/blog/2009/jan/14/designing-speed

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