Software

Aside from your regular text editor there aren’t too many things that you need to build responsive websites. There are some tools that make life infinitely more simple and let’s face it, who doesn’t want to make their life easier.

Performance Budget Builder

The Performance Budget builder lets you lay out your template types, set a size budget for each template type, then plug in the sizes for each asset category that will load in the template. The tool will adjust each category’s width accordingly and yell at you if you exceed your budget. Pretty fun! Fair warning, this is mostly an experiment and hasn’t been cross-browser tested or anything like that. Feel free to take it and run with it.

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Macaw

Macaw provides the same flexibility as your favorite image editor but also writes semantic HTML and remarkably succinct CSS. It's time to expect more from a web design tool.

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Codekit

Codekit is a preprocessing master for the Mac. It really does what it says on the tin. Code kit helps you build websites faster and better.

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