I’ve been developing Ruby on Rails applications for some time, and have often found help to develop generate the templates of HTML with accompanying CSS. However, I’d like to make an attempt at doing this myself.
Initial experiments leave me feeling like my process is really slow. I’m writing all my Rails code in VIM, which, with accompanying aliases to run the test suite, is pretty fast for me. However, the back-and-forth between browser/VIM to see new changes seems cumbersome – I’m guessing finding an editor with an embedded browser that constantly sees new changes is ideal for this (any suggestions?)
So far I’ve experimented with Blueprint, which at the onset seems like it will save me a ton of time. However, what other tools have helped you do the PSD->HTML/CSS conversion as fast as you can?
Have you tried using http://jsfiddle.net/ ? It has changed my world.