HTML size is 20KB...how can I reduce?

Using WYSIWYG

[crobb305]

I use WYSIWYG editor, as I do not know a lot of html. I noticed the file size of my main page is 29KB, so I used the file size checker at Searchengineworld to see how I can reduce the overall size. Turns out, 20KB of the total size is html tags. That seems like a lot. How can I reduce? Does using embedded tables increase filesize significantly?

Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks

[Birdman]

Using CSS is one way to reduce filesize but I can't tell you how to do it effectively with an editor.

[gingerbreadman]

can you send me the code to look at?

[leoo24]

alot of anything increases the file size, first off i think you should look at moving anything you can into an external stylesheet.
I don't know what program you are using but things such as:
width
height
align
valign
font

these i've mentioned are deprecated for css anyway, but i've seen many poeple post code from a wysiwyg using these.
get yourself over to w3schools [w3schools.com] and see what can be one with css, leading you to be able to remove excess code from your files :)
oh, and remove as much white space as you can!

[caine]

crobb305,

if 20k of the page, out of 29k is HTML, then the code is very bloated. Area's to look at is the simplification of the page structure, also if using table's - especially with wysiwyg's watch for all the dress up code around the cell's, such as color, text size & color, table color, these can unnecessarily, and usually unknowingly increase the HTML code size out of whack.

Use the HTML as the structure of the page, and use CSS for the dress up of the page.