Our Review of the CSS Design Suite
CSS Design Suite
Our Rating - 4 Stars
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The CSS Design Suite contains all the Dreamweaver Extensions for creating CSS websites, it makes it extremely easy to create standards compliant websites from scratch. The layout or template is created with CSS Sculptor this forms the base of your website. you then create your menu in CSS Menu Writer then use siteassist professional to create you whole website.
These Extensions are a great timesaver, if your just starting out designing websites or looking for something to speed up your creation process then this package is perfect for you.
The best thing is that if your a designer then you can just do the parts you like, design your website and these plugins do all the heavy lifting and all your coding is done for you. You just use the Graphical interface making it all point and click easy.
The tools in the package are:
- SiteAssist Professional - Easily create an entire CSS-based website complete with menu navigation.
- CSS Sculptor - Create standards compliant CSS-based website layouts with ease.
- CSS Menu Writer - Create vertical and horizontal CSS-based menu navigation with ease.
- Surveyor - Create XML and HTML site maps for any static or dynamic Dreamweaver site.
- Theme-It - Change, edit, or update your website's color scheme and images without touching CSS or code.
The CSS design Suite of Dreamweaver extensions from Web assist was designed for both professionals and novices in the Web design and development field to eliminate hand coding while creating standards compliant cross browser compatible websites with ease.
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Each extension has a step-by-step approach for use making them extremely easy to use. At each step you choose from a variety of options and pages you selected are created at the end of the process.
Site assist professional is a website builder with a difference and let's you easily build a complete website with no hand coding whatsoever, choose each page you want to create and this extension will do all the heavy lifting for you creating your pages and site structure for you.
CSS sculptor is a phenomenal timesaver when creating Dreamweaver templates everything is controlled via the wizard like interface add each aspect of your website design with your mouse change the size and positioning by selecting from the options available. Had background images, colors and change text attributes for any given part of your layout.
CSS menu writer is the perfect companion to the other extensions in the pack enabling you to create custom CSS-based menus in minutes.
Surveyor creates site maps whether they be an XML or HTML with ease by using a point-and-click wizard like approach to the whole process add pages to your site map the click of a button or if you have a dynamic website survey will create a site map for that to.
Theme-it actually hunts around in your stylesheet so that you don't have to making it easy to change any aspect of your layout like images or background colours is. You can also test different colour schemes to find one that perfectly matches the look and feel that you're looking for.
Whether you are new to web design or a seasoned professional CSS design Suite from WebAssist has something for you. You're looking for a way to easily boost your productivity while creating standards compliant CSS-based websites then this is a package for you.
There is no restriction on the number of sites you can build with CSS design Suite, and no restrictive "per site" licensing.
Our Rating - 4stars
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So why did we give this pack of extensions 4 Stars?
Great way to start your web design career, if you are only designing CSS websites then the CSS Design Suite is perfect for you the extensions are easy to use and will get you learning at a quicker pace than using online tutorials to start from scratch.
But this package is not as good as the Super Suite as it contains more extensions with a greater amount of functionality.
It doesn't stop there, check out the individual reviews reviews for more information on each extension in this package.
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