CSS Software Tools

Style Sheet Editors

Look here for links to the CSS style sheet editors that you can download and try.

Cross-Platform:

• Style Master - $59.99 to register. Windows and Macintosh. Also has a freeware product, Layout Master, which focuses on creating absolutely positioned page layouts.
• Simple CSS - Free. Macintosh and Windows.
• JustStyle - $20 to register. Two versions, one for Windows and another for any Java-supporting platform.

Windows:

• CSS Stylesheet Editor - Free.
• Cascade DTP - Free.
• Astyle - Free.
• StyleAssistant - Free. (Site is in German.)
• Rapid CSS - $29.85 (professional, business, or government) and $19.85 (personal) to register. Editor - Free.
• CoffeeCup StyleSheet Maker - $34 to register.
• StyleMaker - 15-day evaluation version; $29.95 to register.
• TopStyle - $79.95 to register. Also available is TopStyle Lite, which is free, and features a subset of TopStyle's capabilities.
• Easy Style - A browser-based CSS editor that runs in your browser (Internet Explorer 5.5+ or Netscape 6+). $25 to register.
• Style Studio - $49.99.
• Egensite CSS Editor - $39.99.

Macintosh:

• Cascade Style Sheets Editor - Free.
• Cascade - Cost not stated at site; Cascade Lite is free.
• CSSEdit - $29.95.

Linux/Unix:

• cssed - Open source; free.

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CSS-Supporting HTML Editors

Look here for links to HTML editors that support CSS.

Cross-Platform:

• Adobe GoLive - $399 to register. Windows and Macintosh.
• Amaya - The W3C's combination browser and authoring tool. Free. Windows, Macintosh, and Linux/Unix.
• Adobe Dreamweaver - $399 to register. Windows and Macintosh.
• Adobe GoLive - $399 to register. Windows and Macintosh.

Windows:

• AceHTML - Freeware.
• SharePoint Designer, Expression Web, and Visual Studio by Microsoft. Three products which take over for the discontinued FrontPage product. Various prices, depending on vendor.
• HomeSite - $99 to register.

Macintosh:

• GoodPage $99 to register.
• Coda by Panic. $99 to register.
• BBEdit - 24-use evaluation version; $119 to register.
• PageSpinner - 21-day evaluation version; $29.95 to register.
• Flux - $49 to register.
• WebDesign - Supports HTML, XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript. $29.95 to register.

Linux/Unix

• Bluefish HTML Editor - Beta version. (Unix/Linux with the GTK libraries).
• Quanta Plus - Pre-release version. (KDE 2/Linux)

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Text Editors

You don't need anything fancy to create your own CSS style sheets. A simple text editor will do.

Windows:

• EditPad Pro - Shareware; $29.95 to register.
• EditPad Classic - Postcardware (almost free).
• HTML-Kit - A full-featured text editor optimized for HTML, XML, and script authors. Evaluation version; $25 to register.
• GWD Text Editor - Shareware; $29 to register.
• Multi-Edit - Evaluation version; $139 to register.
• NoteTab Light - Freeware.
• NoteTab Pro - Shareware; $19.95 to register.
• TextPad - Shareware; $27 to register.
• UltraEdit - Shareware; $30 to register.

Macintosh:

• BBEdit Lite - Freeware.
• FinalWord - Evaluation version; $15.95 to register.
• Tex-Edit Plus - Shareware; $15 to register.

Linux/Unix:

• Elvis - Free. (Linux/Unix)
• gedit - Official text editor for the GNOME desktop environment. Linux/Unix.
• NEdit - Free. (Linux/Unix)
• VIM (Vi Improved) - Free. (Linux/Unix)

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Miscellaneous CSS Utilities

• CSS ToolBox - A CSS validator, formatter, and compressor. Free. Windows.
• Layout Master - Free. Focuses on creating absolutely positioned page layouts. Windows and Macintosh.
• Rage ButtonDesign - $19.95. Macintosh.
• Back to Font Web Color Picker - A JavaScript-based CSS-color picker.
• Cool Web Scrollbars - Automates creating colorized scrollbars using CSS. $11.95. Windows.
• CodeLifter.com - A source code viewer that lets you see all of the code residing behind the presentation of http://-generated HTML page. Bypass no-right-click scripts, see past windows without file menus or url boxes, and sniff out referrer pages that cannot be seen in your browser. You can also access external CSS style sheets, external JavaScript files, and any other text file at an http:// address. Evaluation version; $9.97 to register. Windows.
• DHTML Menu Builder - Create snazzy pulldown menus for your Web pages, without having to write a single line of code. $65 to register. Windows.

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