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CSSEdit 2.0
I'm not a designer, heck I'm hardly a writer, but I do know good software when I see it (and a cute company logo). CSSEdit is a good piece of software, and it has only gotten better with version 2, released today. But what is it, you ask? CSSEdit is the premier CSS editor (that's Cascading Style Sheets to you) for OS X. Version 2 is faster, can save CSS from a remote website better, and auto saves your work. The big ticket feature is previewing CSS for dynamic applications (think blogs).
A demo is available while a full license will cost $29.95.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Chris said 3:45PM on 11-06-2006
I bought this without hesitation. Working with the demo for a couple of minutes showed me how useful it was. At $29.95 it's a steal. Between this and TextMate I won't be launching Dreamweaver anytime soon. Mac OS X has such great software!
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Ronald Heft said 3:47PM on 11-06-2006
This software is amazing. I will be purchasing a copy for my web design class. A huge time saver.
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tripdragon said 3:54PM on 11-06-2006
how is it amazing ? it's text editing and web preview. You have to know what your doing to even use it. I'm so confused why it so great.
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Urbanose said 4:11PM on 11-06-2006
What ?! Of course it's amazing ! It's a WYSIWYG *and* text style sheet editor. So there's even no knowledge in CSS required to start styling a website. But of course you'll have to know a bit of HTML programming and how to use classes and identifiers in order to bind an HTML object to a style set. IMO TextMate and CSSEdit is the best couple to make great websites (and cheaper than Dreamw... Goli... BBEd... etc...)
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Stewart said 4:50PM on 11-06-2006
If you have to ask why this software is so great, chances are you don't need it. If you write CSS, this is a truly useful piece of software.
Me, I'm just glad they ditched the drawer interface this time around. That was the one thing I really hated about the old version. And yeah, this is great software.
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tripdragon said 4:31PM on 11-06-2006
how is it wysiwyg ? I'm not looking for a bloated dreamweaver app I just think the feature to select elements in the web preview window should also let you edit on teh fly right there instead of going back and having to edit the code via it's weird but neat editing menus..
Think iWeb but for pros.
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Ghostdoguk said 4:38PM on 11-06-2006
What a product ! This shows us what we can do with the mature cocoa frameworks available and the technologies that Apple develop, aquire, who cares.
I agree wuth the other contributors TextMate + CSS = POWER !!!!
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Chris said 4:46PM on 11-06-2006
tripdragon:
It's amazing because you can edit your stylesheet and see the changes immediatley on your server-side, scripted app like a weblog with PHP. Instead of having to make your edit, upload the CSS, reload the page, view it, repeat. You can now do it right in the CSSEdit app and see everything you're doing. Of course you need to know CSS but this utility makes it much easier and faster.
Don't toil in TextEdit just to prove a point, if there are tools that can make your life more effiecient you should use them.
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tripdragon said 4:53PM on 11-06-2006
Chris , what you mean this ?
http://tacosw.com/main.php It been my work horse forever now. Simple and fast
The server side thing is very nice did not see that. But I do that with a local copy already which is easy enough.
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Dave Barnes said 5:55PM on 11-06-2006
I played with CSSEdit for about 5 minutes and don't see what it offers (other than a lower price) over Style Master ( http://www.westciv.com/style_master/ ).
Style Master comes with a LOT more documentation and training.
Style Master runs both Windows and Mac OS X.
,dave
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Andy Skogrand said 6:11PM on 11-06-2006
Style Master is a bit too clunky. Play around with CSS edit and you'll find it a whole lot more organic. I have been waiting for this for a long time!
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Mark Studdock said 12:18AM on 11-07-2006
I don't think I am ready for that kind of a change - I am getting to where I do everything in BBEdit (even some technical reports). I need to learn emacs or vi, pico is killing me. I should know what I'm doing - if I don't I need to learn. (painful as it may be)
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blazouf said 6:02AM on 11-07-2006
Don't forget Xyle scope:
http://culturedcode.com/xyle/
But i agree, CSSEdit 2 Rocks !
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jason said 8:50AM on 11-07-2006
> It's amazing because you can edit your stylesheet and see the changes immediatley on your server-side, scripted app like a weblog with PHP.
Why not just use Firefox with "Web Developer" installed? You can preview and edit your CSS right in the browser, and it's free. Make changes on the fly, and see them take effect.
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Alex Wallace said 10:25AM on 11-07-2006
I agree, this is a sweet little app. But nothing can take away the power of Smultron!
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neps said 11:34AM on 11-07-2006
14> CSSEdit promises to apply CSS the way different browsers show it, Safari, Firefox, various IEs. If this works as promised, could be very hot for web developers. Something that firefox doesn't handle.
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Brady J. Frey said 11:52AM on 11-07-2006
tripdragon said:
"Think iWeb but for pros."
You know that's an oxymoron, right:)? This isn't print design, you're in a code world - you want the design elements without the technical requirements, then I'd say you're not a pro. Even painters need to know how to mix and what brushes to use.
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Tim Plaisted said 6:42AM on 11-08-2006
It looks nice, but I really find the developer extension in firefox to be better and cross platform and realtime and live edit ANY site, your page, with serverside code running from server, etc etc.. oh and free.
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