Ant and yuicompressor

http://www.julienlecomte.net/blog/2007/09/16/
read this on more information on how to configure your ant script to work with yuicompressor

Compressed webpages... Smarty and JS

http://joseph.randomnetworks.com/archives/2006/07/13/compressed-javascript/

I was trying to figure out how to get my apache server to serve gziped css and js files... after a few hours of wrestling, i gave up and googled :) And the above link did the trick. Actually, a comment at that blog. I used the .htaccess method.

Here is a nifty plugin for Smarty to serve gziped tpl files
http://smarty.incutio.com/?page=GZipPlugin