Although I’ve designed websites for years, I never enjoyed working with CSS style sheets. Whenever I could, I used tables or layers and avoided CSS like the plague. Along the way there have been a few CSS editors I tried but there was nothing I found that made working with style sheets any easier. Along came the new Style Master 4 from Westciv and I am actually editing and designing style sheets.
One of the reasons I decided to look at Style Master was the fact it’s cross platformed. You can work in the Windows version and when you switch over to the Mac, you can work in Style Master for the Mac. It’s a $59.99 program in either the Mac or the PC version, but we’ll get to that a little later. The reason you need to purchase Style Master 4 is because it will allow you to edit and design style sheets even if you never looked at a style sheet in your life. Well maybe you have to understand computer basics, but if you’re new to designing style sheets, you’ve got to have Style Master. If you know CSS and need a good hand editor, Style Master can do that, but where it really shines is in it’s design mode. You will be able to view the webpage your editing, click on any part of the webpage and see the CSS code associated with it. All this in a WYSIWYG view with color pickers and wizards, templates, and browser previews to allow you instant gratification.
I loved the fact that Style Master comes with so many online references. You can instantly see a command and all it’s variables and how they affect the webpage you’re working on. If you want to change a CSS style sheet from a blog template, or an existing webpage, you just click on the text, graphic, or section you want to change and all the options for you to choose from are displayed. You can simply point and click to create a style sheet. You can create ready to go style sheets, navbars, breadcrumb trails, layouts and whole sites, without even having to look at the CSS until you’re ready for it.
I used both the Windows and Mac version and the basic operation and features are the same, the PC uses pallets while the Mac uses drawers. The PC version tends to have a button filled tool bar while the Mac version keeps the layout clean and simple.
With the free tutorial, complete CSS guide, full browser support, word processor ease of use, tons and tons of wizards and templates, a simple WYSIWYG design pane, and a full manual coding mode makes this program a must have for anyone with a website, a blog, or any online identity. PC or Mac, you’ll be very satisfied with Style Master 4.
The article is a reprint from my website, Surf-Bits.com