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CSS: The Missing Manual
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CSS: The Missing Manual

by David Sawyer McFarland
August 2006
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
496 pages
17h 36m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Software for CSS

To create Web pages made up of HTML and CSS you need nothing more than a basic text editor like Notepad (Windows) or Text Edit (Mac). But after typing a few hundred lines of HTML and CSS you may want to try a program better suited to working with Web pages. This section lists some common programs; some of them are free and some you have to buy.

Note

There are literally hundreds of tools that can help you create Web pages, so the following isn't a complete list. Think of it as a greatest hits-style tour of the most popular programs that CSS fans are using today.

Free Programs

There are plenty of free programs out there for editing Web pages and style sheets. If you're still using Notepad or Text Edit, then give one of these a try. Here's a short list to get you started:

HTML-Kit (Windows, http://www.chami.com/html-kit/). This powerful HTML/XHTML editor includes lots of useful features like the ability to preview a Web page directly in the program (so you don't have to switch back and forth between browser and editor), shortcuts for adding HTML tags, and a lot more.

TextWrangler (Mac, http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/). This free software's actually a pared-down version of BBEdit, the sophisticated, well-known text editor for the Mac. TextWrangler doesn't have all of BBEdit's built-in HTMLtools, but it does include syntax-coloring (meaning that tags and properties are highlighted in different colors so it's easy to scan a page and identify its parts), FTP ...

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