Intro to Sparkle 2. The Sparkle Interface 3. Preview Setup 4. Adding Box Elements 5. Managing Colors 11. Group Elements 13. Twitter & Facebook Widgets 14. Adding Photos & Graphics. Sparkle, Visual Web Design 2.0.1. Sparkle is the web design tool for creating modern sites with unparalleled creative control. Skip the tedium and design.
Why not code?
It’s a legitimate question. With so many advocates of code, claims of simplicity, why would you not code? We the revolution 1 0 download free. Tweetbot for twitter 2 5 3.
HTML and CSS are extremely powerful, but also extremely complex, and perhaps more importantly, defyingly unpredictable.
When you’re creating an HTML/CSS layout every property interacts with every other, resulting in slow and excruciating process, riddled with compromise, of converging on something that works.
This complexity becomes an approachability problem, it is really hard for a beginner to get into coding when seemingly nothing works. There’s no stronger testament to the approachability problem than the flood of “visual” website building tools.
Case in point, making an image work in this multi-device, multi-screen-resolution, multi-compression world, or “responsive images”, is so complex even coders advise against writing it by hand:
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Not to mention the CSS shapes feature used in image wrapping, that we are introducing in Sparkle 2.5. It’s so complex that no other tools implements it fully, and it’s very rarely seen on live sites around the world because it’s so complex to code.
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In short, coding is a full time job, and even then you heavily rely on tools to help.