Last week we learned how to save time and file size by using CSS shorthand in our CSS code. This week we’re looking at a tool to speed up creating your XHTML pages and files.

Each time you get ready to begin a site, you have to add certain things to each page:

  • Document Type Declaration (DTD – XHTML Strict, Transitional, etc)
  • Page encoding (UTF-8, etc)
  • Link your stylesheets (CSS)
  • Import/link your javascript library or choice

You may also add folders in your work directory for:

  • PHP includes
  • Images
  • Flash
  • etc

All of these things are pretty standard. Even those these things are pretty straightforward, making a new file, or copying and pasting from a previous project can take up valuable time better spent on the meat of the site code.

Generate Code With Deploy

I’ve been using an online tool called Deploy. This gives you a dead-easy way of choosing your DOCTYPE, linking CSS, importing the jQuery library (and common plugins) and creating common file folders.

It then generates the code in a nice ZIP for easy download. You can also bookmark the page and regenerate the code again without having to choose the options all over again.

Project Deploy is a great time-saving tool for any web designer.

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