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You can probably tell what MacRabbit’s CSSEdit will do for you from its name. It’s a Cascading Sytle Sheets (CSS) editor. So it’s only useful for those who edit webpages. And it’s quite a powerful CSS editor.

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So if you use Adobe Dreamweaver, GoLive or other webpage editors, why would you need additional applications like CSSEdit? If you don’t have dynamic contents, then you won’t probably need CSSEdit. On the other hand, if your website is built with PHP, then you may find CSSEdit useful. Adobe Dreamweaver 8, for example, doesn’t let you preview dynamic pages like ones built with PHP on your hard disk drive. And if you are new to complicated PHP packages like WordPress and phpBB, you may not be able to even figure out which style sheet to edit. And that’s where CSSEdit will come in.

Okay. Let me explain more specifically where and how you can use MacRabbit’s CSSEdit. This blog (machouse.mhvt.net or machouse.mhouse-j.com) is built with PHP, so we can’t use Dreamweaver to see changes every time I make changes in a style sheet. We actually have a couple of WordPress blogs just to test new things like themes, style sheets and plug-ins. In fact, we often use these test blogs to see changes. But the problem is that the whole procedure is kind of time-consuming. I first edit a style sheet. Then I upload it to a remote server to see changes.

So how will CSSEdit change our workflow in customizing style sheets? CSSEdit has a built-in browser function. So I need to access our WordPress blog. More specifically

1. I click on Preview button (See Screenshot 1.)
2. I click on Add Site URL button (See Screenshot 1.)
3. I enter the URL (See Screenshot 1.)
4. I click on Style Sheets button and choose a specific style sheet to work on (See Screenshot 2 & 3.)

After selecting a specific style sheet, I can see changes dynamically. I can change font colors, sizes, styles.

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MacHouse recommendation: If you have dynamic contents (PHP, ASP, …), you may find CSSEdit useful. But we find its price a little bit too high just for editing CSS files.






CSSEdit is a product of MacRabbit.

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