Make Web Site Development Easy

When faced with building a new website, you find that there are a lot of tools to help you. The following are tools that I have used lately, extremely time savings, and all are standards compliant. If you use any of these, I assume you should know basic CSS, HTML and some basic Adobe Photoshop skills.

1. Blueprint - This CSS framework recently moved to Google Code.  Blueprint aims to cut down on your CSS development time. It starts you off with a CSS foundation to build your project, with an easy-to-use grid,  typography, and even a stylesheet for printing. It took me all of 5 minutes to figure out how to use, and another 5 to have my layout complete. See a website built with Blueprint here.
2. Blm Mult-level effect menu is a hybrid CSS/Javascript menu that was a breeze to setup. It has options for horizontal or vertical. Very simple to integrate into a website. Easy to customize with the CSS file included.
3. Open Web Design is for people who need a website up FAST. It’s easy to plug in whatever content you need into one of the free templates. However if you have some time you can easily make one of the templates your own by adjusting colors, fonts and your own images.
4. Give your website some fashionable rounded corners with Nifty Corners.
5. Grab yourself some free Web 2.0 gradients for photoshop to pretty up your header section and your website background.
6. Plug in some content, or buy some content over at Digital Point, Generate your Google Sitemap and submit your site to Google, and Digg it.