{"id":485,"date":"2013-10-17T14:28:03","date_gmt":"2013-10-17T14:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/a1webdesignteam.com\/blog\/?p=485"},"modified":"2013-10-17T14:28:03","modified_gmt":"2013-10-17T14:28:03","slug":"17-best-css-tools-to-speed-up-your-coding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/a1webdesignteam.com\/blog\/17-best-css-tools-to-speed-up-your-coding\/","title":{"rendered":"17 Best CSS Tools to Speed Up Your Coding"},"content":{"rendered":"

1. Topcoat : CSS for Clean and Fast Web Apps<\/h2>\n

\"topcoat\"<\/a>
\nTopcoat is a library which consists CSS classes for form elements, buttons, checkboxes, sliders and many more. It is a lightweight tool that would make your website or app look awesome in short period of time.<\/p>\n

Website<\/a><\/p>\n

2. PCSS : Shortcut Oriented Server Side CSS3 Preprocessor<\/h2>\n

\"pcss\"<\/a>
\nPCSS is a PHP-driven CSS Preprocessor, which aids developer to write CSS code quickly by defining variables, class nesting, default unit and server-side browser specifics. PCSS do server-side processing using PHP 5, so it requires this version to be available on the server where the website is running.<\/p>\n

Website<\/a><\/p>\n

3. Skelton<\/h2>\n

\"skelton\"<\/a>
\nSkeleton is a small collection of CSS files that can help you rapidly develop sites that look beautiful at any size, be it a 17\u2033 laptop screen or an iPhone. Skeleton is built on three core principles: responsive grid down to mobile, fast to start and style agnostic.<\/p>\n

Website<\/a><\/p>\n

4. CSS Menu Maker<\/h2>\n

\"css-menu-maker\"<\/a>
\nThis tool helps users to create custom CSS drop down menu easily. CSS Menu Maker provides webmaster with tools to create custom, cross browser compatible css menus also it provides source code for all CSS Menus and facilities users to download and tweak the code.<\/p>\n

Website<\/a><\/p>\n

5. Sencha Animator<\/h2>\n

\"sencha\"<\/a>
\nIt is a desktop application which enables users to create CSS3 animations for touch screen mobile devices and webkit browsers. Sencha Animator helps users to create animated text, images, design buttons with gradients and embed analytics.<\/p>\n

Website<\/a><\/p>\n

6. CSS Form Code Generator<\/h2>\n

\"css-form-generator\"<\/a>
\nCSS Form Code maker creates nice looking layouts for forms. It also helps you to crate colorful table less layout for forms. This \u2018code maker\u2019 generates CSS layout code to \u2018spice up\u2019 those forms as well.<\/p>\n

Website<\/a><\/p>\n

7. PrefixmyCSS<\/h2>\n

\"prefixmycss\"<\/a>
\nPrefixMyCss lets you prefix your CSS3 code easily. Users have to paste CSS code in to the window to prefix, all vendor prefixes are added to your code, users can safely replace their old code.<\/p>\n

Website<\/a><\/p>\n

8. Sky CSS Tool<\/h2>\n

\"sky-css-tool\"<\/a>
\nSky CSS Tool allows you to create CSS classes almost without using manuscript code. Users would need JavaScript compatible browser for the proper functioning.<\/p>\n

Website<\/a><\/p>\n

9. Spritemapper<\/h2>\n

\"Spritemapper\"<\/a>
\nSpritemapper is an application that merges multiple images into one and generates CSS positioning for the corresponding slices. This tool helps developers to optimize available space and the loading time.<\/p>\n

Website<\/a><\/p>\n

10. CSS Compressor<\/h2>\n

\"css_drive\"<\/a>
\nCSS Compressor compresses your CSS to increase loading speed and save on bandwidth as well. You can choose from three levels of compression, depending on how legible you want the compressed CSS to be versus degree of compression.<\/p>\n

Website<\/a><\/p>\n

11. Patternify<\/h2>\n

\"Patternify\"<\/a>
\nIt helps you to generate beautiful CSS patterns.<\/p>\n

Website<\/a><\/p>\n

12. CSS Text Shadow<\/h2>\n

\"Css<\/a>
\nCSS Text Shadow allows you to generate beautiful text shadows.<\/p>\n

Website<\/a><\/p>\n

13. CSS3 Pie<\/h2>\n

\"CSS3-PIE\"<\/a>
\nPie makes internet explorer 6-9 capable of rendering several of the most useful CSS3 decoration features.<\/p>\n

Website<\/a><\/p>\n

14. The Web Font Combinator<\/h2>\n

\"font-combinator\"<\/a>
\nThis tool has been built to allow previewing of font combinations in a fast, browser-based manner. There have been numerous printed books through the years that allowed a designer to put a headline font next to a body font, and this is an attempt to recreate that for the web.<\/p>\n

Website<\/a><\/p>\n

15. 3D Transforms<\/h2>\n

\"3d<\/a>
\nCSS 3D Transforms is online tool which enables users to perform various level Transforms. This tool is on experimental mode and require specify prefixes in all browsers.<\/p>\n

Website<\/a><\/p>\n

16. Quick Form Builder<\/h2>\n

\"accessify\"<\/a>
\nQuick Form Builder allows you to easily create CSS forms.<\/p>\n

Website<\/a><\/p>\n

17. Layer Styles<\/h2>\n

\"layerstyles\"<\/a>
\nIt is a HTML5 app for creating CSS3 in an intuitive way. It has Colorpicker which lets you pick any color of the element you\u2019re working on, it facilitates users with Drag and Drop images on to the page to use them as background or to pick their colors.<\/p>\n

Website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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