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CSSEdit - what a great find!

In my quest to move more of my software development over to Mac I started looking around for a decent solution for HTML/XHTML and CSS development. On Windows my CSS Editor of choice was TopStyle, a really great application, but there isn’t a Mac version. I ran through quite a few products over the extended weekend but found one that impressed me so much I bought it within 20 minutes of trying it out.  

CSSEdit - what a great find!

CSSEdit makes the process of testing out CSS design painfully simple and at $29 it’s hard to pass up. It’s got all of the helpers to guide you through CSS settings - pretty much expected for a decent CSS editor. You can use a dialog based approach or edit the CSS source directly in a full text editing surface that has lots of helpers. 
 
The part that made me whip out the credit card though was the Live Preview browser. Point it at your HTML and start making changes in your CSS - they are reflected immediately in the preview browser. In addition it has an X-Ray feature that allows you to select any element on your finished HTML page and see the CSS classes that lead into it.
 
Great stuff - until you realize that you can point the preview browser at ANY page on the web. It sucks it in and allows you to modify the CSS on it. Sure, it’s only a local render but it’s a great way to check out how a nice looking site leverages CSS.
 
If you do any CSS work at all you should check out CSSEdit.

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I bought my first Mac almost 24 years ago when DOS ruled the world. I didn't keep it too long though. I was just kicking off my career as a software engineer and needed to go with PCs. I bought my 2nd Mac in February of 2008. I didn't expect that I would find myself using the machine as much as I have. It's not that I hate Windows (well, I pretty much hate Vista but XP is a fine OS), it's just that I find myself constantly playing with this machine. I'll share with you here my experiences of making the move from Windows to Macintosh. I still have a foot in both worlds, hence the name of my section.

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