BaseKit

New BaseKit features! Elite BaseKit Developer Andy Whitehead takes us through our next upgrade…

This isn’t live yet – but is coming very soon!

Hi, I’m Andy Whitehead, one of the development team here at BaseKit, and I’m really excited to introduce you all to the upcoming functionality that will soon be rolling out in the BaseKit editor, CSS3 styling – including rotations, box and text shadows, skew and axis origin controls, background gradients and CSS scaling. As well as that, we’ve been listening to the many requests for various extra design controls, so we’ve also added the much sought after border / stroke control too.

Personally, I’ve been really excited about putting these controls together, as I’m really looking forward to seeing what people can come up with. I’m sure there will be horrible results, but at the same time, I know there will be a lot of really awesome ones too. I’m a real fan of using box shadows combined with slight rotations to give some really excellent looking designs, especially when used on images, and now, it’s ridiculously easy to do; and of course, they’re all fully cross browser compatible as you’d expect.

As far as I’m aware, no other web builder out there has these CSS3 design functions as of yet, and it’s great to be there at the forefront of cutting edge web development. I hope you enjoy using the tools as much as I enjoyed building them, and I can’t wait to see what you come up with.

Like I said, they’ll be coming in the near future, but to whet your appetite, here’s a video of them in action