CSS Editor Apps and Alternatives 100% FREE

 CSS is an acronym for Cascading Style Sheets and it is a programming language often employed to customize the look and formatting of a document written in a markup language.  Since CSS is frequently used to design webpages written in HTML or XHTML, users will need to rely on specialized utilities to adjust and optimize its functions. Some CSS editors feature interactive user interface and intuitive wizards that will help even the beginner users to configure CSS properties.Although CSS editors can exist as standalone apps, one will often encounter CSS editing functionality within HTML editors and PHP managers.

 KompoZer
New in KompoZer 0.8a3: DOWNLOAD (7 MB)
FEATURES

• New design / split / source tabs
• many bugfixes in the "source" dock (split-view)
• re-implementation of a SeaMonkey-like "source" view
• XHTML support is back
• FTP site manager
• A new color picker
• CSS editor
• Customizable toolbars
• Table/Cell resizing rulers
• Automated Spellchecker

JustStyle CSS Editor DOWNLOAD (10.5MB)
An application designed to help you manage your CSS documents by allowing you to visualize every individual class, selector and div, along with its properties. JustStyle CSS Editor is a tool that enables webmasters to easily manage and edit their cascade stylesheet files. JustStyle CSS Editor provides an interactive user interface and presents CSS properties in special wizards and generic value lists.
System requirements JAVA

Astyle CSS Editor DOWNLOAD (1.4MB)

FEATURES

• Fairly easy-to-use interface
• Graphic tree-type view of attachment files and the CSS structure
• Grouped view of properties and selectors
• Conceptual model of editing
• Automatic selection and grouping of CSS selectors from a structured document
• Active WYSIWYG preview of CSS properties and HTML tags
• XML technology
• Icon associate dictionary
• Drag and Drop operations
• Copy, Paste and Cut operations
• Creation of your own editing themes

 ArduoCSS DOWNLOAD (1.5MB)

ArduoCss is a very usefull, easy to use Css editor that has a simple interface you can edit or build a css file. This can be done with the classic text editor with syntax higlight or with the user friendly managed interface. In every moment you can test your work in an test page with all html elements, shown in the preview area.Don't worry If you need to test the css in a particular page, because ArduoCss can show the stylesheet in external html pages

. Blaze Composer DOWNLOAD (1.9MB)
What's new in Blaze Composer 3.0: Layout manager allows you to create your own layout and thus save a lot of work later in designing. Style Sheet Creator, which you can use to create style sheets to reduce time taken for defining styles for each and every element.

Blaze Composer - Great features like tag recognition, auto complete, temporary clipboard with simple drag-drop interface and manager, auto correct, smart select, auto delete, ability to create restore points and a whole lot more.

A little exploring can reveal the complete ability of Blaze Composer. What's best? It provides a WYSIWYG interface for those who don't know HTML. Blaze Composer is a software that allows you to edit HTML documents.

Easy to use, because even while entering tags, all you have to do is just select your options and all tags will be automatically generated. Check this out. If you don't know HTML, use the Composer interface and if you know HTML or even if you don't know HTML, that editor interface will provide dialogs to finish the job for you.

 BlueVoda DOWNLOAD (4.9MB)
A Drag & Drop free website builder
BlueVoda is a nifty tool that you can use to create and design websites by using the drag and drop technique. It's useful even if you have little or no experience at all. Upon initiating the website builder, you have three choices: start a new project, open an existing one, or watch video tutorials. Unfortunately, video tutorials were not available in our case, and we couldn't find any predefined templates to look into and play with. The user interface may seem overwhelming at first for beginners, but take your time and get to know the product.

• You can add HTML, scripts, inline frames, layers, ActiveX, Java, Flash, Windows Media, QuickTime, RealPlayer, YouTube, or other types of objects.

• Double clicking each one of them allows you to edit it. For example, you can write a custom HTML code (or import a ready-made text file), add a YouTube link of your preferred size (and enable the display of related videos), and so on.

• From the design perspective, you can insert and customize banners, rollover images, ad banner rotator images, galleries, guest books, RSS feeds, menu bars, and others.

• In addition, BlueVoda comes with a free FTP client called Blue FTP. It basically allows you to connect only to VodaHost's servers (too bad it's this limited), and publish your work.

• The program uses little CPU and memory resources. Besides the video tutorials and templates, we couldn't access the community form, customer support, and control panel, for some reason.

• All in all, if you don't plan on learning a programming or scripting language that is necessary for building a website, then BlueVoda can get you what you need.

iStylr
WYSIWYG CSS and HTML Editor with Template Generator and CSS3 and HTML5 suport.

iStylr is a easy to use WYSIWYG CSS and HTML editor with focus on the development of cms templates. If you are looking for a solution to shorten development times for cms templates and themes look no further. iStylr allows you to create, convert, edit, publish, share, import and export templates for the worlds most used cms and blog systems like WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, TYPOlight and many others.

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