I bet you all know how much a color matters in your website design highlighting and making vivid the details. The very color of your web pages may evoke emotions which you want your visitors to experience and help you to win their attention. Today we want to present you 5 simple website templates for different purposes which were designed with dominating white color – the color of relaxation, light and purity.
1. Model Agency Flash Template
I continue to share useful tools with you and today I’m going to give you the list of good CSS editors.
Of course there are HTML editors with CSS support and most CSS professionals don’t use any editors except Notepad, but I’m sure many of you would appreciate a more sophisticated development environment for CSS coding these CSS editors offer. Besides, if you are new to CSS, you can learn by analyzing the style sheets and using live-editing, thus getting to understand how the design is actually built up.
The idea of a CSS editor lies in combining the HTML-source code with editing features of CSS-stylesheets and the website layout within a comfortable interface. Many CSS editors also offer some additional tools and features for debugging and testing, validation and preview in different browsers and many more.
Well, here is my list of good CSS editors you might find handy:
Among the features this editor offers are error check, cross-browser compatibility check, W3C CSS validator and many more.
* Xyle
Modifying the CSS-code with this advanced editor for Mac users you’ll see the changes immediately in the browser window. Among key features are the ability to filter large CSS files using smart groups, automatic formatting and selector matching
If you are a CSS beginner you’ll like this free editor. True to its name it is really very simple.
This powerful and easy to use editor is highly interactive and platform independent. With this editor you are able to edit the whole CSS file or select the fragments of it and edit them separately.
* CSSEdit
CSSEdit offers real-time styling of style sheets for Mac users. The editor features W3C standards validator, live-preview, integration in web-browsers, project management and others.
This editor for Windows users offers integration with W3C CSS and HTML validators, CSS checker and validator, syntax highlighting for CSS and HTML documents, CSS code compressor, save and open files directly from FTP, fully customizable interface and many other useful features.
Well, if you have anything to share about the above mentioned CSS editors or if you’d like to give us a hint about the editor that wasn’t named in the list, do not hesitate and let us know in the comments below.
CSS or Cascading Style Sheets has been discussed here not once. You already know that CSS is used to style HTML, you also know that you can add looks to your old HTML, restyle the website, use created style on any webpage. But what are the advantages of CCS, why using it is better that using anything else? Let’s find out.
* Easy maintenance
Design and content in CSS are separated. This feature gives you the full and easy control over your website looks. With CSS you do not have to make alterations in the huge number of files, you just need to alter one file. And the task is extremely easy to do.
* Faster load
Your visitors will appreciate the fast load of your web pages. The thing is the Stylesheet needs to be loaded just once, thus when your visitors browse your website the only thing to be loaded is actually content and it loads extremely fast.
* Your visitors get control over your website view
Imagine your visitor has vision problems, with User Style Sheets he can easily change the size of the fonts or contrast for instance.
* Less code
In CSS the same class is used at different locations, thus we use less code. Less code means less mess when editing and maintaining and less bandwidth, plus faster load.
As you see Cascading Style Sheets are created to simplify the process of developing and maintaining a website. Both you and your visitors will benefit if your website is built with CSS. Have you discovered more advantages when using CSS?
No one likes websites that take ages to load. You won’t disagree that long wait always irritates. In the world of severe competition it is extremely important to make your website comfortable for the users. Make sure that your visitors won’t leave your so-very-informative page before it actually loads. What can you do to make your visitors lives more comfortable and safe their time with your fast page loading? Well, here are some useful tips for you to use on every stage of web site development – designing, programming and maintaining. Following these tips you’ll for sure make your website loading fast, more comfortable for your users and thus will leave your competitors behind.
* Optimize your HTML code.
Errors, broken links, unwanted tags, all these things slow down your page load. Make sure your website doesn’t have any errors and is optimized for load time.
* Lessen the use of images, graphics and Flash.
This is the easiest and most optimal solution for designing the fast loading page. The more images you have on your web page the slower it loads, thus try to reduce the use of graphics. Of course they are important for the attractive appearance of your website, but try to be reasonable. The simpler design is better.
As for the Flash animations, well, they indeed are catching and rather useful for attracting your visitors, but if not properly utilized they can slow your page load immensely.
* Create simple icons with tables.
Do not neglect the simple ways. Using tables creatively can bring brilliant results, thus you can get not only great designs but also achieve the faster loading time.
* Use text links.
Try to reduce the use of graphic buttons. Instead use text links. To be able to make them attractive learn some CSS.
* Optimize heavy files.
Reduce the sizes of the images, Flash files and scripts if possible. You can easily do that with the help of Photoshop, Adobe Flash or Fireworks software.
* Stick to simplicity.
The minimalistic and plain designs are more and more popular nowadays, thus your website will look more modern and stylish and will load faster. Isn’t it an awesome plus to the great and professional looks?
Well, have I missed something? Feel free to add your tips on making websites load faster in the comments below.
If you at least once tried to code by your own you know how extremely important a good and reliable text editor is. The ease and comfort of your work commonly depends on it. The majority of you would assume that the best text editor is Notepad, if not the best than the easiest one. But Notepad isn’t a simplest solution. It lacks such useful features like a tabbed interface and search and replace functionality for instance. Many programmers and developers agree that the choice of a text editor is a matter of habit. Well if you still do not have a favorite text editor or are not satisfied with the one you’ve got, I’ve picked the most reliable text editors for you. Who knows, maybe you’ll find the most convenient tool to work with among them. I tried to include the most popular tools not only for work on Windows but also Mac and Linux as well. You’ll also appreciate that all these tools are free. Thus, here they are:
* Notepad ++
A good and very popular tool for work with Windows. Among the most useful features of Notepad ++ I can name an auto-completion feature, tabbed interface, code folding, side by side text comparison, zooming in and zooming out and many more.
* Text Wrangler
A great multi-purpose text editor for Mac. The features include built-in FTP controls, support of useful BBEdit plug-ins and function browser.
* Komodo Edit
Deservedly named one of the best XML editors, this tool supports all operating systems, thus works great on windows, mac, and linux. Has many useful features including code completion and call tips. Supports such template styles like CSS, HTML, JavaScript, PHP, Python, XML, Perl, Tcl, HTML-Smarty, RHTML, Template-Toolkit and Django.
* Smultron
A very easy to use text editor for work with Mac. The main feature that makes it so easy to work with is the plain and simple interface. Except the basic features the tool has an obility to split thus allowing you to view files side-by-side, besides you’ll appreciate the code snipplet library that allows storing your most used code blocks. But the most of you most likely will be thrilled by its full-screen mode.
* Gedit
This one is created to work with Linux, actually it’s the official text editor of the GNOME desktop. Among the features are tabbed interface, syntax highlighting, spell-checking feature and a plugin system that allows to add new features.
* Bluefish
This open source editor is quite popular among programmers and web designers that work on Mac and Linux. The main thing it’s famous for is its speedy function.
* Vim
Great tool that runs in all the major platforms, that is: Windows, Mac OSX and Linux. There is a great number of features which makes it a bit complicated to work with it.
* NoteTab Light
This is another text editor that works with Windows, Mac and Linux. It is a free Notepad replacement. You’ll appreciate its built-in FTP client, tabbed interface and a reliable search interface.
Well, what is you favorite text editor?