Need to maintain CSS from anywhere? Signup for a (currently) free WebPutty beta account to host and serve your site’s Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). The in-browser CSS editor offers a side-by-side preview pane with instant updating and is compatible with CSS extension Sass (SCSS) and Compass, an open-source CSS authoring framework. More »
Chrome: Stylebot lets you easily adjust the style sheets of nearly any page using a button-based control panel or editing the raw text of the style sheet. Most people will use this for mundane applications such as font changes and hiding ads, but using this powerful extension you can completely reskin sites and share your custom CSS with others using the developer’s forum. More »
We’re big fans of keyboard shortcuts ’round these parts, but while lots of web pages advertise their shortcuts well, many go unnoticed. Here’s a CSS tweak for Firefox from a reader that will show you which links on a page have keyboard shortcuts. More »
While we happen to love comments and the lively discussion that occurs in them, we understand that not everybody wants to see the comments left by other internet users. Shutup.css lets you apply a custom stylesheet and eradicate comments across the web. More »
Firefox: If you’ve ever sighed and said “Oh Firebug, if only you were wide screen!”, today is your lucky day. Widerbug is a version of the popular web development tool tweaked for wide screens. More »
Microsoft’s official IEBlog points out one of the less obvious features of Internet Explorer 8′s most recent beta: the ability to use alternate style sheets, effectively enabling people to define their own approach to site layout. While it’s likely to be some time before this feature is widely supported, it’s worth remembering when you’re laying out your pixel-precise site design that user interference is likely to be more common in the future. The CSS Corner: Alternate Style Sheets [IEBlog]
Windows only: Free application CSS Toolbox streamlines working with cascading stylesheets (CSS) through auto-completion, syntax highlighting, and several more advanced features that make it stand out from a regular text editor. For those of you who don’t know, CSS files are the building blocks that style the web. CSS Toolbox offers advanced features for building out your stylesheets, including a CSS beautifier, validator, and even compressor. This one isn’t of much use to non-developers, but if you are a designer (or you have any inkling of learning about web design), this app looks like a real winner. On the other hand, if a solid text editor is all you want, check out our Hive Five Best Text Editors. CSS Toolbox is a free download, Windows only.
CSS Toolbox [via CNET]Planning to spend some time during one of those mythical “free” weekends whipping your web site into shape? Open Web Design, a free and frequently-updated collection of site templates handed out without copyright, is a great place to start looking. We’ve posted similar collections before, but Open Web Design trumps our archives for up-to-date designs and breadth of material—images, CSS templates, and standard HTML are all available. The site is free to use, and registration lets you submit ideas and post to a forum. Open Web Design [via Web Worker Daily]
