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November 7, 2006
The Way a Web Styler Should Be
Okay, I'm no CSS magician. In fact, I only started learning CSS about a year ago and my grasp of it is still, meh. It's not that it's hard or anything. It's just one of those things that progressively gets easier with more practice. So when my hero CSS app got updated, I got all giddy!
CSSEdit 2 from macrabbit (the developers are actually a group of retired magic show rabbits) is hands down the best mac CSS editor in all the land. It's a total mac app. The interface adheres to Apple's user interface standards which means it's clean, simple and very easy to use.
For noobs like me, it makes writing your own CSS super easy. There's a visual editor that lets your design your layouts all without writing a single line of code. Once you see how design gets translated into code, in no time you'll be jumping in doing it by hand. It's a great way to learn and it's how I learned CSS. SCREW BOOKS!
My second new fav feature is the validation tool. CSS is a loose enough construct that in the wrong hands, won't render correctly across all browsers. That validation tool is sorta like a spell-check function that makes sure your code is up to W3C (the almighty web consortium gods) standards.
My most fav new feature is called X-ray. With it, I can view other sites and reveal exactly how their CSS is written. Ooh how sinfully delicious!
Now truth be told, I only have the first version of CSSEdit so if the people leporidaes at macrabbit read this, I would love to get my hands on this new version since mine is demo only. :)
$29.95, runs on both PPC and Intel Macs. Buy it here
Posted by tranism at 5:06 AM | Permalink
Comments
I wish this was made for PC users too!!! Sooo not fair :(
Posted by: Patrick at November 10, 2006 11:43 PM