8 online tools that can speed up your css delivery
It can be very tasking developing UI effects for your website. Especially when you have complex shapes, animations, and numerous images to deal with. Thankfully, some thoughtful people on the internet have built a number of tools that generate CSS codes hence, easing some of these exhausting tasks. As always, I advocate that you take some time to understand the underlying principles behind the CSS attributes used by these tools, as it would help you manipulate the generated codes easily. Here are some tools that can make writing CSS seamless.
1. CLIP PATH MAKER
Clippy is an online tool that helps generate CSS clip-paths. Clippy offers a wide range of clip-path shapes you can select from. You can also manipulate selected shapes directly from the clippy website UI. Once you are done, you can copy the codes generated by clippy and paste them in your project. Other alternatives include solutions from cssplant, uplabs e.t.c.
2. THEME AND COLOUR SELECTION
Whenever I run into confusion as to what colour combinations I want to use on an application, I use coolors. Coloors offers a wide range of exciting features like colour scheme generation, gradient generator. Another interesting feature on Coolors is the contrast checking feature. It tells you the contrast levels between your background and foreground colours. With that, one is able to quickly decide if two colors sit well on each other. Coloors also offers the select colour from image feature where you can get all the colours present in an uploaded image.
3. IMAGE RESIZERS
Building responsive websites can be very stressful, especially when you have lots of images to deal with. A standard principle of responsive web design is that you use image resolutions that align with target devices. Cloudinary uses one image to generate several other images based on the selected height, width, device resolution and image format. It also allows you upload multiple images and download them when the resize is complete, saving you time and stress. Some alternatives are picresize, canva e.t.c
4. SVG MAKER
SVGs are fast making web design appealing. There are a number of ways to use SVGs in your application. If you need to generate SVG backrounds on the fly, svgbackgrounds, svgeneration, heropatterns offers lots of them. With tools like methoddraw, you can draw anything and convert them to SVGs instantly. Svgartista also makes manipulating existing SVGs very easy.
5. ANIMATION AND TRANSITIONS MAKER
Animsta has a wide range of free and paid animations and transitions. Animsta auto generates CSS animation key-frames for you based on certain selected criteria. With Animsta, you can create CSS animations of the fly. CSS animate also offers cutomizable CSS animations.
6. LAYOUT GENERATOR
Cssplant Generates layout for you based on CSS techniques like Flexbox, CSS Grids, tables and blocks. There are also a couple of other tools like gridgenerator, layoutit, griddy which uses CSS Grids only.
7. GRADIENT GENERATOR
Cssgradient.io can help you generate any type of gradient. All you need do is position the colors appropriately and review till its perfect. It also has a huge collection of gradients with support for gradient text, linear and radial css gradients. Go ahead and manipulate as you wish.
8. RESPONSIVENESS CHECK
If you need to do an overall check of how responsive your web app or website is, responsivedesignchecker is your go to tool. AmIResponsive is the only solution I have seen that supports localhost urls although it supports limited number of devices. Other alternatives are responsinator, responsivetesttool e.t.c.
Feel free to share other tools you have used in the comments section.
Stay coding!
