Guys, do you explain in the book a nice solution about how to divide sprite images?
I mean, I use sprites on my site (
http://www.nextt.com.br - if you are redirected to nextt.com.br/en remove the /en sufix couse it is not translated yet :p ).
I started using 1 sprite image for all the site, but it got too big (I feared some parts of the site stayed blank becouse the image is downloading).
Then i splited that image on contexts (images of the banners of the home, little (20px or 24px) icons, vertical gradient backgrounds and clients logos).
The clients logo are used only in one page, so makes sense to let them separated from the others.
But 90% of the other images are used on the home page.
Should I keep them splited or should i gather them in one image?
Is there a technique for handling with sprites and taking these decisions?