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GuideGuide: Free Plugin For Dealing With Grids In Photoshop

GuideGuide: Free Plugin For Dealing With Grids In Photoshop
Advertisement This article is the fourth in our new series that introduces the latest, useful and freely available tools and techniques, developed and released by active members of the Web design community. The first article covered PrefixFree; the second introduced Foundation, a responsive framework; the third presented Sisyphus.js, a library for Gmail-like client-side drafts. Take a moment and think about creating a multi-column grid in a Photoshop comp. (siteWidth - (gutterWidth × (numberOfColumns - 1) ) ÷ numberOfColumns = columnWidth I was sitting at my desk one day doing this exact equation when I thought, “Man, this looks just like code. Enter: GuideGuide I created GuideGuide for the sole purpose of making one of the most time consuming parts of Photoshop based design as easy as possible. Columns and Rows Designing a site that needs multiple columns and gutters? Midpoints GuideGuide makes finding the midpoint of items within your design a breeze. Save It For Later The Fun Part (il)

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15 great HTML5 and CSS3 generators HTML5 and CSS3 are great languages to start off learning with, and I’ve always thought that one of the best ways to start learning is to just dive in and manipulate the code. As you could probably tell, this is where generators step in. They are a great way to generate some code, play with it, and learn. Not only that, they are incredibly useful because often times as a developer or designer we find we are doing things over and over again. As an example, I have a text-expander snippet that creates an HTML5 template that I wrote about here. I will say that most of this list is going to focus on CSS3 generators, simply because they are in demand more than HTML5 generators, and we will learn why. CSS3 Generators There is a somewhat negative connotation when it comes to these generators, and I have to say that as a designer and developer there is nothing negative about using one. General Generators This section will focus on generators that take care of the broad spectrum needs and usages.

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Theme-Check The theme check plugin is an easy way to test your theme and make sure it’s up to spec with the latest theme review standards. With it, you can run all the same automated testing tools on your theme that WordPress.org uses for theme submissions. The tests are run through a simple admin menu and all results are displayed at once. How to enable trac formatting The Theme Review team use this plugin while reviewing themes and copy/paste the output into trac tickets, the trac system has its own markup language. If either of these two vars are defined a new trac tickbox will appear next to the Check it! The version number is the date of the revision of the guidelines used to create it. It’s not flagging “bad” things, as such. Many sites use customized themes, and that’s perfectly okay. This theme checker is not perfect, and never will be. This plugin does not decide the guidelines used. I heard good things about this plugin until I used it. One of the best plugins for theme developers.

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