Greetings. I am looking to get my hands dirty with CSS for a couple of sites that I am developing, and I am looking for recommendations / feedback on any open-source tools / utilities that stand out amongst the many available options. Being relatively new to CSS manipulation, I would like to narrow the field a bit and hopefully be able to focus my time on actual development vs. learning a tool that turns out to be a nightmare to use. Any information would be most appreciated.
Hi 12bravo, Check out these sites. i found them very useful for css related stuff. Cleancss.com Cssbeauty.com Css-tricks.com Hope this helps.
Note: If you don't want to learn css but want to use it, you need a good css editor. Most programmers use a css editor then clean up the code, it's faster and easier than straight coding. Some editors will render clean code and some incorporate Dave Raggets HTML/CSS Tidy, which automatically cleans up the code. I like AlleyCode which is a HTML/CSS editor but that's personal preference. here is a website with free css editors http://blog.lxpages.com/2007/03/29/free-css-editors/ more css editors http://webdesign.about.com/od/csseditors/Cascading_Style_Sheets_Editors_CSS_Property_Editors.htm even more css editors http://janim.net/web-freeware/free-css-editors.php another css editor http://www.causeway.co.uk/freestuf/cssedit/editor.htm and another css editor http://www.hostm.com/css/ another http://www.ucware.com/juststyle/download.htm Top style lite is free http://www.newsgator.com/Individuals/TopStyle/Default.aspx 5 free css editors http://www.webdesignarchive.org/2007/07/24/5-free-css-editors/ a blog and list of several css editors http://forum.statcounter.com/vb/showthread.php?t=16409 another http://www.htmlkit.com/ free css toolbox http://www.blumentals.net/csstool/ free css editors list http://www.fortysomething.ca/mt/etc/archives/006478.php Hope this helps falcon
w3schools.com will help you in getting your hands dirty on CSS. in fact it provides very useful editor to practice some examples ...
While your learning - i'd use Firefox with the webdeveloper extension and CSS viewer extension. Amazing tools (all free). Web developer extension lets you edit CSS and HTML on the fly plus LOTS of other amazing stuff. CSS viewer lets you easily see all CSS properties for any object. Making writing and editing your css much quicker
Dont forget the Firebug tool - its hands down one of the best addons ever. I use notepad++(its opensource, free and perfect ) and top style(not free) for CSS coding.
webdeveloper and anions are the only people who gave you good answers and those are the only tools you need, Firefox and the add-ons mentioned. Any editor you're comfortable with will do.