CSS sprites are used to minimize the webpage load time by reducing the number of server requests for separate images.Also woth web page optimization sprites are used in animations along with javascript.For example Google Doodle’s which contain anomations are mostly created using css sprites [Google dancing animation doodle- How did they do]
Spritecow, Online tool that helps generate CSS code for the sprite images.Its no more difficult to find the coordinates of the image sprite to create css code.Using spritecow you can upload your image and generate css codes for the sprite portions.
Many of our readers asked how did they create such animations and some of them said google would have got some kind of tool that generates sprites easily like spritecow.