23 Musings

Drawter is great! Just found this gem of a site and it's already come in useful.

Now I'm a hand coder of HTML, have been for 12 years, so perfectly happy creating HTML and CSS in a text editor. Sometimes though I just want to do something simple and quickly and that's where Drawter helps.

It allows you to create basic HTML layouts using CSS really quickly by drawing out the elements you want and then generating the code.

Highly recommend you have a play. Obviously it's great for beginners too as you can see the layout and then relate the code back to it (a good way to learn).

Really good interview with Jeffrey Zeldman who is one of the gurus of web standards in my eyes. Having been an 'A List Apart' reader for a long time I've always taken an interest in his opinions and ideas.

Nice little app here called CSSFly which allows you to view any web page and edit it in real time while seeing the results instantly in the browser. It works by caching a copy of a page and updating with any changes to the code you make.

Could be very useful for any CSS/XHTML developers who want to experiment without getting their coding tools out. Also great for those of us who like to see what's under the hood of our favourite designed websites.

Is it really 10 years that I've been mucking about with CSS styles?? Apparently so! The W3C has a page including a Hall of Fame, essays on the topic and a gallery on their site to celebrate the coming of age of this most useful of coding features.

Worth celebrating I reckon!