Tuesday, September 02, 2014: It's not easy to involve in front-end development. You can always learn
it but mastering it is not that much easy. Too many things need to be
considered and you should have an eye for detail. Developers and
designers keep releasing useful tools and resources which help us learn
and improve our skills. Let's have a look at 15 such valuable and
helpful HTML-CSS tools which can save your time and enhance your
performance.1. HTML Email Boilerplate:
This website and its sample code creates a template of sorts, absent of design or layout. These help you avoid some major problems with email clients and it also provides some helpful examples which help keep your email design true-to-form as possible.
2. Initializr:
This is a tool which creates customizable templates based on HTML5 Boilerplate. First decide if you want sample content or not, and then choose between JavaScript and jQuery. You need to specify your compatibility and server configuration needs also. Then the template is provided based on key features of Boilerplate.
3. Layer Styles:
This is a very simple tool which is commonly used for creating CSS, in a way you would do it with a graphics editor. The tool allows adding drop shadow, inner shadow, background, border and border radius and it generates cross-browser CSS code.
4. Mobile Boilerplate:
This is a template which is used to create rich mobile Web apps. With this template you can also get cross-browser consistency among A-grade smartphones, and fallback support for legacy Blackberry, Symbian, and IE Mobile.
5. Kotatsu:
This is a simple HTML table generator which can create a table and throw in row as well as column. The process is completed quickly and easily through this tool. This tool is also capable of generating lists.
6. Vogue:
The style sheet gets reloaded through this tool (not the HTML) of a page in all browsers. It can also reload a page automatically in multiple browsers at the same time. The tool will not host your website but it runs your website’s own local server. If you want to use it, you just need to install NodeJS and npm.
7. LiveReload:
If you want to apply CSS/JS changes to Safari or Chrome without reloading the page then LiveReload can help you. It reloads the page automatically after the HTML is changed. Live.js is another library which ensures the latest version of the page you’re working on, you may be writing HTML, CSS or JavaScript.
This tool can edit CSS properties in the IDE from Firebug CSS editor. It also allows the developer to concentrate on CSS styling without any refresh to the browser.
9. Ffffallback:
This is a bookmarklet which allows testing different font stacks through which you can find the best result. It scans the page’s CSS and also creates a clone page. Here you can test and analyze different fallback fonts.
10. LESS.app for Mac OS X:
CSS gets variables, nested rules and operators with this special tool. This app is very simple to use as it automatically compiles *.less files into standard CSS.
11. Less-Boilerplate:
This is written in Less and it includes a CSS reset, CSS3 helpers, centered column blocks, and much more.
This is a tool which comes handy which you can use to test your CSS renders while taking screenshots of websites and also comparing them with other screenshots. It also tests calculated CSS values and the position of HTML elements.
13. Spritemapper:
This is an application which help in merging multiple images into one and also generates CSS positioning for the corresponding parts. It reduces the amount of images and utilises the connection in a better way. CSS spritemapping can also reduce your website’s loading time.
14. Normalize.css:
It approaches in a different way towards CSS resets. It doesn't eliminate all browser defaults. Jonathan Neal and Nicolas Gallagher did a research to explain how different browsers handle different bits of code and then kept the defaults that are useful. As a designer you save much time and also get the best results out of it.
15. Zen Coding:
This is an editor plugin used for high-speed coding and editing. It is a powerful abbreviation engine as it allows you to expand expressions (similar to CSS selectors) into HTML code.
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