WEBEXPEDITION18 Never Stop The Exploring

Most of the time writing website’s CSS is enjoyable and fun job. However some of the tasks aren’t always fun. CSS tools are here to help with those not so fun tasks, and make developers job a bit easier.
We rounded up a collection of extremely useful CSS tools. Some tools are new and some are old, but we hope that you will find a couple of new useful or at least inspiring tools.

Variable Grid System

The variable grid system is a quick way to generate an underlying CSS grid for your site. The CSS generated file is based on the 960 Grid System.

The 1Kb CSS Grid

It is a very small-sized and lightweight CSS framework supporting grid system, style reset, basic typography and form styles.

Grid Designer

This tool enables you to create a grid by specifying the number of columns and the widths of the columns, gutters and margins. You can also specify typography in the same tool and export the final CSS and (X)HTML markup. You can also bookmark your grid and typography settings and create designs with spanning columns. Created by Rasmus Schultz.

CSS Lint

CSS Lint is a tool to help point out problems with your CSS code. It does basic syntax checking as well as applying a set of rules to the code that look for problematic patterns or signs of inefficiency.

Primer CSS

Just paste some HTML in the box and Primer will pull all classes and IDs to get you started with your stylesheet.

PrefixMyCSS

PrefixMyCSS helps you save time by letting you write your properties one way. Paste in your code, press the Prefix button and it adds all of the necessary vendor prefixes for you.

Modernizr

Modernizr is an open-source JavaScript library that helps you build the next generation of HTML5 and CSS3-powered websites.

Layer Styles

Layer Styles is a HTML5 app for creating CSS3 in a intuitive way. The interface will remind you a lot of Photoshop.

CSS3 Patterns Gallery

CSS3 Patterns Gallery lets you browse various CSS3 patterns as thumbnails or fullscreen and grab the code so you can use them on your own site.

Ultimate CSS Gradient Generator by ColorZilla

This ultimate CSS gradient editor and generator, created by ColorZilla, is a powerful tool to create CSS gradients having cross-browser support.

Spritebox

Spritebox is a WYSIWYG tool to help web designers quickly and easily create CSS classes and IDs from a single sprite image.

Automatic CSS inliner

You can use this tool to design your next email campaign and automatically turn all your local styles into inline CSS.

Typetester

The Typetester is an online application for comparison of the fonts for the screen. Its primary role is to make web designer’s life easier.

CSS Typeset

This tool lets you enter text and configure it visually, then gives you the CSS.

The Web Font Combinator

The Web Font Combinator was created in order to preview web font combinations. There have been various printed collections of font examples that the reader can combine in order to see how a header and body font work together.

Sencha Animator

Sencha Animator is a desktop app to create CSS3 animations for WebKit browsers and touchscreen mobile devices. Create rich experiences for today’s most popular devices.

CSS Pivot

CSS Pivot lets you add CSS styles to any website, and share the result with a short link. You can also invite others to submit improvements for your website.

CSS Prism

CSS Prism lets you enter the URL of any site so you can view an modify its color spectrum.

CSS Compressor by CSS Drive

Use this utility to compress your CSS to increase loading speed and save on bandwidth as well.

px to em

Type a base font size in pixels, and the tool will produce a complete pixel to em conversion table, making elastic Web design much easier to produce.

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