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I currently have the ‘External Stylesheets’ selection checked and also ‘Externalize’ action added to the page.

My client has asked for the all the css files to be combined into one with gzip compression enabled as advised/recommended by google.

I can feel a headache coming on. I’m guessing this is not possible with FW creating css files?

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On Jul 26, 2010, at 9:20 AM, Nathan Garner wrote:

I can feel a headache coming on. I’m guessing this is not possible
with FW creating css files?

It’s a server thing, it has nothing to do with FW. Your (Apache)
server will need to have mod_gzip enabled or you can also do it with
PHP. Loads of tutorials explaining the “what” and “how” of it.

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Oh great, I will look into this. Good news it being server side.

With regard to combining the 2 css files produced by fw using the method I’m employing - this is currently not possible as far as I’m aware.

Nathan Garner

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On 26 Jul 2010, at 15:27, Todd wrote:

On Jul 26, 2010, at 9:20 AM, Nathan Garner wrote:

I can feel a headache coming on. I’m guessing this is not possible with FW creating css files?

It’s a server thing, it has nothing to do with FW. Your (Apache) server will need to have mod_gzip enabled or you can also do it with PHP. Loads of tutorials explaining the “what” and “how” of it.

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On Jul 26, 2010, at 9:42 AM, Nathan Garner wrote:

With regard to combining the 2 css files produced by fw using the
method I’m employing - this is currently not possible as far as I’m
aware.

It’s possible to compress and merge multiple CSS or Javascript files
on-the-fly, there’s no need to manually combine files. There are
numerous variations on how this is accomplished using gzip, zlib(PHP)
etc. with, I’m sure, pros and cons for each.

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Wouldn’t compressing the files change the filename? instead of .css it would be .gzip or something? and if that’s the case how would FW locate the file.

Nathan Garner

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FW5 Pro | MacBook Pro | Snow Leopard

On 26 Jul 2010, at 16:18, Todd wrote:

On Jul 26, 2010, at 9:42 AM, Nathan Garner wrote:

With regard to combining the 2 css files produced by fw using the method I’m employing - this is currently not possible as far as I’m aware.

It’s possible to compress and merge multiple CSS or Javascript files on-the-fly, there’s no need to manually combine files. There are numerous variations on how this is accomplished using gzip, zlib(PHP) etc. with, I’m sure, pros and cons for each.

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On Jul 26, 2010, at 10:39 AM, Nathan Garner wrote:

Wouldn’t compressing the files change the filename? instead of .css
it would be .gzip or something? and if that’s the case how would FW
locate the file.

Yes, it requires modifying the file extension but a quick search
turned up one that doesn’t and there may be others as well. As for FW
locating the css files I don’t know if there’s a quick and easy
solution though there may very well be, it’s been some time since I
used FW for production work. Otherwise it might require a more manual
(non-FW) approach to creating and linking to the stylesheets.

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