14 Best CSS Editors for Web Designers & Developers 20.1K Flares Twitter 25 Facebook 0 Google+ 0 StumbleUpon 20.1K Pin It Share 0 20.1K Flares × CSS definitely provides you the ease of changing the appearance of your entire website by just modifying a single file. What makes the entire process of changing the CSS files more easy is the use of CSS Editors. Other Interested Articles: Btw, for high quality brochure printing in full color at PsPrint.com Stylizer Stylizer is a web browser that creates CSS ridiculously fast. XylescopeXylescope transparently converts pages with markup errors in the source code into well-formed XHTML. Style MasterStyle Master is the leading cross platform CSS development tool. Rapid CSS EditorWith Rapid CSS Editor you can quickly and easily create and edit cascading style sheets of any size and complexity. EngInSite CSS Editor EngInSite CSS Editor is a fully integrated Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) development tool, designed to save your time and unleash your creativity. About Author Andrew Smith
70 Tutorials Using Photoshop To Design A Website This article features a huge amount of Photoshop web design tutorials, which will teach you simple effects which can be combined together in order to create a great website design. Theses tutorials are perfect for first time Photoshop users because there short and sweet. I hope you enjoy the article and feel free to leave a comment below. 1) Carbon Fiber Layout you’ll learn how to make this sleek layout with a carbon fiber background that would look great as a landing page for a website. 2) Design Studio Layout In this tutorial you will learn how to make a layout for your design studio website. 3) Create a web 2.0 layout in photoshop In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a very fancy “Web 2.0″ website layout in Adobe Photoshop using beginners skills. 4) Watercolored design studio blog layout In this tutorial you will learn how to make a clean and simple watercolor design studio layout for a blog. 5) Corporate Business Layout 6) How to create a worn paper layout 7) Arhitecture layout
12 Common CSS Mistakes Web Developers Make Let’s get real for a second here. As far as web languages go, CSS is arguably the simplest. I mean, really, what could be easier than a simple list of properties affecting an element? And the syntax is almost like written English. But despite its deceptively easy exterior, CSS is one complicated system, especially when you’re doing it in a professional, high-scale, high-performance level. It’s easy to get tripped up with CSS. 1. Web browsers are our fickle friends. One of the sillier things browsers do is provide default styling for HTML elements. In any case, there’s rarely a case of two browsers providing identical default styling, so the only real way to make sure your styles are effective is to use a CSS reset. What a CSS reset entails is resetting (or, rather, setting) all the styles of all the HTML elements to a predictable baseline value. There are many CSS reset codebases on the web that you can incorporate into your work. Though this works, it’s not a full reset. 2. 3. 4. 5.
How Not to Display Your Artwork on the Web In the thirteen years I’ve been on the web, twelve of which I’ve spent doing professional web site design, and the last two of which have sent me to hundreds of artists’ web sites, I’ve come to the inevitable conclusion that the thing artists want most when placing their art on the web is for it not to be seen. There are millions upon millions of bad sites on the web, but artists really work at it. Never have I seen such an array of sites in which artsy designs, misplaced cleverness, highbrow concepts, amateur clumsiness, arrogance and ignorance have been painstakingly employed to drive visitors away. As a result of this obvious desire of illustrators, painters, comics artists, concept designers and other artists not to be seen, I’ve created a collection of handy tips for how to send editors, art directors, gallery owners, prospective buyers, webcomics readers and casual users hastily clicking away in search of some portfolio site other than yours. Got your note pads ready? Don’t focus!
Divitis: What it is and how to avoid it (Updated!) by Megan McDermott, 8 June 2011 - 2:38pm When developing your website in HTML, you might be tempted to use the <div> tag to sovle problems. Things not lining up in every browser? This article will explain the problems with divitis habits and propose some practical solutions. This is an updated version of an article originally published in 2007. What is a Div? A div is an HTML tag used to group sections of an HTML document. For more detail, read our article on What is a Div? What is Divitis? Divitis refers to the over-use of the div tag for purposes other than dividing a page into meaningful sections. wrapping elements in a div in order to insert class and/or id attributes for styling with CSS manipulating page structure to accomplish specific visual goals using a div tag to mark-up items that don't seem to match any other HTML element The end result is a document full of nested div tags reminiscent of the old method of nesting tables. Why is Div-itis bad? There are a few reasons: Discussion
How to Display Your Art on the Web Articles Introduction Who this is for: This is intended as a rough guide for illustrators, gallery artists, cartoonists, comics artists, concept artists and other visual artists who want to present a professional representation of their work on the web. If you’re just putting up your stuff for the benefit of your friends, do what you want, it doesn’t matter. Why did I write this? The original post that prompted this grew out of this frustration with the apparent desire on the part of artists to drive visitors away from their sites in droves. The response to the article was, and continues to be, emphatic, and frequently includes requests for more information. Caveats What do I know? I do not hold myself up as a paragon of design and usability. This is a work in progress. This series of articles is intended to he helpful.
The Anatomy of a Stylesheet - CSS Hints & Tips | ProgTuts CSS stylesheets, in my experience, are things that are often thrown or hacked together to make a website look a certain way without really caring much about how it is done. CSS is a very powerful tool when creating websites and this tutorial will hopefully show you how a little bit of structure and some CSS wizardry can make your stylesheets look and work a whole lot better. As always I will say that the techniques described here are by no means the only way of doing these things and are not superior to any other alternative that you may use. These hints and tips are purely suggestions to help you structure and work with CSS stylesheets. Stylesheet Header and Global Reset First thing first I suppose. /*===================================================================== * * Filename: style.css * Website: www.exmaple.com * Author: Gilbert Pellegrom * Date Created: 18/8/2008 * Media: Screen * * Description * ----------- * Put an description of your stylsheet here. Shorthand IE6 Workaround
The Shapes of CSS Learn Development at Frontend Masters CSS is capable of making all sorts of shapes. Squares and rectangles are easy, as they are the natural shapes of the web. Add a width and height and you have the exact size rectangle you need. We also get the ::before and ::after pseudo elements in CSS, which give us the potential of two more shapes we can add to the original element. Square Rectangle Circle Oval Triangle Up Triangle Down Triangle Left Triangle Right Triangle Top Left Triangle Top Right Triangle Bottom Left Triangle Bottom Right Curved Tail Arrow via Ando Razafimandimby Trapezoid Parallelogram Star (6-points) Star (5-points) via Kit MacAllister Pentagon Hexagon Octagon Heart via Nicolas Gallagher Infinity via Nicolas Gallagher Diamond Square via Joseph Silber Diamond Shield via Joseph Silber Diamond Narrow via Joseph Silber Cut Diamond via Alexander Futekov Egg Pac-Man Talk Bubble RSS Feed via Kevin Huff 12 Point Burst via Alan Johnson 8 Point Burst via Alan Johnson Yin Yang via Alexander Futekov TV Screen Lock