Eric meyers CSS Sculptor - Create standards compliant CSS layouts without hand coding

Eric Meyers CSS Sculptor is a dreamweaver add-on that creates standards compliant CSS layouts and is the most excellent CSS design software that I've come across in my years as a web designer.


Dreamweaver let's you create and develop interactive, dynamic sites and is an production standard with webmasters. It is a simple to work and powerful piece of software.

If you've ever tried to create cross-browser compatible CSS layouts in Dreamweaver, now and then it seems like an uphill battle to get actual cross-browser compatability for your design with the differences between the most important browsers. Sooner or later you'll come to the understanding that there's got to be a faster way.

With Dreamweaver extensions you can improve functionality to the core features of dreamweaver and force it to do just about anything, this unique dreamweaver extension is called Eric Meyer's CSS Sculptor that makes life as a web designer a whole ton simpler.

Eric Meyer's CSS Sculptor from WebAssist is an add-on for Dreamweaver that builds compliant CSS layouts from an simple to use wizard like UI.

For web developers who are moving from table-based layouts to CSS layouts, it provides a means to earn as you learn by making standards compliant CSS layouts from it is easy to use interface and therefore the preview display you'll be able to try out your layout and be sure that when you complete your layout and upload it to your server it can be exactly how you wish it to be.

For more practiced Dreamweaver users, the method of generating custom CSS layouts is slashed to a fraction of the time and is alone price the cost of the plug-in.

All aspects of your finished CSS layout are all under your management while not the necessity for any hand coding, put in all the aspects of your layout together with divs, columns, header and footer, background images, margins, padding, hyperlink states and a lot of additional with just a couple of clicks of your mouse.

CSS Sculptor allows complete customization of your layout, choose a template to start out with and then customize it to fit your needs thus if you would like a fixed width layout with 3 columns, create your picks on the first page of the user interface and all the code needed for that layout is magically inserted in the background.

This CSS layout software helps you to management every aspect of your CSS layout simply embrace background pictures into every layout div even insert repeating gradient images all from inside the easy-to-use wizard.

Eric Meyers CSS Sculptor comes with 48 Net standards compliant preset CSS layouts and twelve color schemes to get you on track, and every one layouts can be simply changed for your specific requirements. You're be able to additionally save your presets, therefore you can hastily create more sites from layouts you've got already made.

You'll be able to additionally insert spry elements and style all of them from inside Dreamweaver.


You can learn more about CSS Sculptor and how it can accelerate your production of CSS layouts here

signup animation

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In this video we show you how to use flasheff to easily create an animation to highlight your signup form. Its a simple process that doesn't include any actionscript coding by hand.

Flasheff has an easy to use user interface that includes previews of the effects on offer, just hover your mouse over the effect and the preview comes to life, showing you exactly what it will look.

Just drag and drop the flasheff component ontop of the item you want to animate and it will snap to the corner, which shows you that its ready to use.

Then open the flasheff panel and select the effect that you want, each type of effect whether show, hide, filter or button. has its own different effects.

sitescribe

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Sitescribe

Ever needed to send a client a pdf of a website that your developing for them, know how much of a pain it can be.

Well now you can do it easily and within a couple of minutes with Sitescribe, Its really easy aswell just about 5 steps andand the software will do it all for you.

Just select your settings from the presets and input your url and away sitescribe goes, it doesn't matter if its ten pages or a thousand, sitescribe will convert it all to a pdf which you can easily send to a client.

In this video we show you sitescribe coonvert a site of about 50 pages in a few minutes.

If you would like to see the full review just follow the link above

siteimport

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Siteimport

Site import lets you rip a site of the web and into you local hard drive within a few minutes depending on the size of the site of course.

With site import you get full control of the process and can select whichever files you would like whether it be a .swf, .jpg or .html, .php whichever you like and siteimport will only import those types of files to your hard drive.

This video shows a whole site ripped from the web, php, pictures and swf files all get pulled from the web and placed on your hard drive with the right structure and everything all neatly laid out for you.

Its a cool little tool that can help with the web development process.

If you would like to see more just use the link above to see the full review

New Squidoo page about Flasheff

If you checkout Squidoo there is a new page which describes how easy it is to use flasheff. It has a couple pictures and a brief description on how to use flasheff, plus a video showing how to make a basic banner using Flash.

Or you can checkout our review of flasheff where we show you more complex animations created with flasheff, bare in mind that if you go to the website, everything that moves was created with flasheff in under 30 minutes.

As you know if you've used Flash to try and animate anything then its really hard to learn how to animate the smallest of things, a simple banner could take upto an hour, with flasheff you can produce the same banner in a matter of minutes. With its drag, drop and select user interface you can produce complex animations in minutes.

So again if you want to see the Squidoo page about flasheff or if you want to visit the review of flasheff then please visit and learn how you can increase your productivity(save time) and we all know time is money dont we, lol.

Dreamweaver extension: html sitemap generator

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Dreamweaver extension: html sitemap generator

With this Dreamweaver extension it will create a html sitemap that is written onto the template of your choice, so easy you just use the xml sitemap that we showed you how to create in thhe last video and it basically does it all for you lol.

We love easy.

And it cant get any easier than this.

Dreamweaver extension: xml sitemap generator

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Dreamweaver extension: xml sitemap generator

This is a cool Dreamweaver extension that saves a lot of time, if you where to hand code a sitemap it would take a long time depending on the size of the site of course.

This Dreamweaver extension makes it all point and click easy and it doesnt all stop there you can then submit the sitemap to all the major search engines and create a html sitemap from it aswell, making this probably the most usefull Dreamweaver extension you could buy

If you want to see the full review with the other features of the extension use the link and see it in full