Yay. I ran a web site optimization test, and it informed me that even on
pages that didn't need them, the background images for other pages that are
on the style sheet are included as part of the file size being downloaded.
I did not know that. Amazing (that I am willing to admit I didn't know that
until tonight. Doh)! I took some of the style rules for background pages
that usually only applied to three pages each and moved those styles to the
heads of those pages. I reduced the file size of the html file being tested
by 13K (from 35K to 22K) and reduced the size of the stylesheet itself from
11.4 K to 10.4 K.
I'm sure I can clean up the style sheet a lot more if I look at it again,
especially with help (hint hint). The existing style sheet at
http://www.TheBicyclingGuitarist.net/css/style.css was at one time NINE
separate stylesheets that I then cobbled all together back in 2002 or 2003
(with lots of help from this newsgroup).
Thanks y'all.