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better solution for tinkering with others CSS
Authored by: cutterchgo on Sep 30, '04 03:07:45AM

CSSEdit quickly became my righthand utility (next to BBEdit) when I started moving into standards-based web development. Some purists (a title that I often put on myself) may feel that the gui may get in the way or handicap the user but the fluid interchange between gui and text editing (text with intelligent autofill features that really work well) has kept it in my arsenal months after I've become familiar with the syntax and no longer need the gui for editing. The grouping and quickfiltering against style names and source alone is well worth the price for managing large stylesheets.

Stylemaster, too, is a powerful editor with many of the same features and even a few others. I feel that both could serve equally as well but stylemaster was a bit harder to learn and I had already become very familiar with CSSEdit.

You can slam it all ya want or claim that text-based-only editing is the *only* way to go but this is the only tool I've found that will help ease novices into the new world of standards-based CSS designs while simultaneously offering power-users all of the editing shortcuts and direct-editing features that they need. The searching and organizational features are icing on the cake that increase productivity tremendously. Give this piece of software a try, it's well worth $20. In retrospect, I think it's worth considerably more considering it's polish and utlility.

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