(Foolestroupe:)Things like "Style" and CSS tricks are good for huge websites and commercial update of same, but are enormous overkill for small sites - they also make the pages download MUCH slower.

Don't agree. Even quite a simple page can be much easier to maintain if you put a bit of CSS in. Also CSS does things that pure HTML markup can't do, and it does it in a way that's defined by an independent open standard, not proprietary extensions.

As for speed: putting a <STYLE> section in the header or having a CSS file can make the file size smaller by avoiding repetition of inline HTML style markup, so it could make download time quicker rather than slower.

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