[pringshia]

Hey guys, my boss just told me to "clean up" the CSS for a website. I am new to this job (only about a month) and the CSS is a COMPLETE mess. A lot of the styles make little to no sense. I don't think there is any possible way to clean up the code in its current state unless the website went through a complete redesign and I had to start from scratch. Additionally the website is horribly coded. It doesn't follow the ideal MVC approach, so changing the CSS would require in many cases to alter HTML and PHP. On top of that, website is run amok with inline styles and tables >.<

Do you guys have any ideas/tips on what I can do to at least even fool my boss into thinking that something has been optimized?

[Soup Of The Day]

Online CSS Optimiser / Optimizer

Clean CSS - A Resource for Web Designers - Optmize and Format your CSS

[seen.to]

Yes. Do your fucking job and tell him how long it will take then get on with it.

[freelancr]

Sounds like it would be quicker to redevelop the website from scratch. So propose that idea to your boss.

[fasterthanlight]

Not really the entire site, but thats assuming you have a solid HTML structure to work from, if the HTML is as fucked as the CSS is, you're better to redevelop completely, or you could spend weeks trying to molest a piece of crap into a diamond-studded piece of crap.

Try deleting all the CSS first, and just recoding at least the CSS from scratch....

[Soup Of The Day]

Here's another good article all about CSS optimization I just found today:

7 Principles Of Clean And Optimized CSS Code | CSS | Smashing Magazine

[fasterthanlight]

Nice link, some of that is/SHOULD be common knowledge though :P