15个最好的工具,让CSS开发变成一个有趣的活动

jopen 11年前

Animatable

This is a very useful tool that allows you to create animations, including the CSS3 for WebKit browsers on different platforms such as iOS, BlackBerry, Android and WebOS. This tool helps you create multi-scene animations, even if you are a novice at CSS3. This is an extremely user-friendly tool for developers, designers and animators alike whether they are professional or amateur.

PCSS

This helps you in writing CSS code for your website conveniently. It requires less coding and offers more features, such as variables, class nesting and default unit.

Spritemapper

If you want to merge several pictures into one, and generate CSS positioning for those slices, this wonderful tool is going to help you. It will provide you the code and reduce the loading time. You can also minimize the space used with the help of this tool.

Layer Styles

Layer Styles is a graphics editor that is browser-based and very convenient to use. It is more like Photoshop. For the web developers creating CSS, it is the best choice to create graphical user interfaces to make visuals.

The Web Font Combinator

This is a tool that allows you to test different font combinations. It facilitates consistency and uniformity on the webpages, as far as font selection on different parts of the page is concerned. Apart from it, it also facilitates editing and trying different font families for a quick preview.

prefixMyCSS

As it is evident by its name, prefixMyCSS, allows you to prefix the CSS three code. You can easily include vendor prefixes to your code by a single click of the prefix button. For this, you have to paste your typed CSS code into the first block of the website.

Sencha Animator

This is a multipurpose desktop app, that is ideal to create CSS3 animations touchscreen phones. Text and picture animation is possible with this app, that becomes more lively with the use of buttons and few transitions. You can also create embedded tracking code for web analytics using this tool.

CSS Pivot

This tool works wonders, if you are working within a team of developers or people outside your company to improve your website. It allows you to share the results after adding CSS styles to your website using a short link.

Fractal

This tool is extremely helpful or for e-mail marketers. It validates HTML and CSS, and allows you to test which part of it is not supported by a specific e-mail client. It is a very helpful tool for the designers, which enables them to ensure compatibility of their e-mail design with a particular e-mail client.

CSS3 Buttonize Framework

CSS3 Buttonize Framework is an instant button framework, which is quite convenient and small. You can choose a button style from the tool, get its CSS code downloaded, place it where it asks you to place and use it in your website.

Skeleton

If you want to make your website look attractive even at a weird size, this tool would help you develop your site easily and quickly. It is a collection of some compatible JavaScript and CSS files, which can help you develop the mobile friendly websites as well. Its beauty is its fluidity, responsiveness, style and its ability to start quickly.

CSS Text Shadow Generator

As the name suggests, CSS Text Shadow Generator allows you to generate text shadows. It is very simple to use, as you simply type the text in the box provided, select the style, choose font, and click on “the Get Code” button. You can use this code in your CSS to create a shadow of the text.

CSS3 Patterns Gallery

CSS3 Patterns Gallery comprises of many patterns, as the name suggests. You can select the code of the pattern, after viewing it in the gallery. It makes it extremely simple and convenient. Once you have the code, you can modify it to fit in your own design. It is a boon for developers, who are creative and want to use different patterns on their webpages.

CSS Lint

If there is any issue with your CSS code, CSS lint would help you find it. It checks the syntax on the CSS to find out what’s going wrong. It would also suggest some rules that can be applied to the problematic code, but you are free to change or modify those rules.

CSS Prism

CSS Prism works like a real prism. Enter a URL, and the color spectrum of the CSS file will be modified immediately. If, you are inspired from a particular website’s colors, you can add a bookmarklet to it and use it in your website.