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Nettuts+ Builder: Free to Premium Members

on Sep 11th 2011 with 19 comments
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  • OS Required: Mac OSX
  • Availability: Free to Premium Membership
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As we prepare Version 2 of our Nettuts+ Builder app, I’ve decided to make the initial release available free to all of our loyal Premium members.

Nettuts+ Builder

Free to Premium members, or $5 on CodeCanyon.

Nettuts+ Builder turns the process of compressing scripts and stylesheets, and uploading a project to your server into as simple a process as possible.

How’s It Work?

Click the “Video Preview” button here to get a better understanding of how the App works.

Let’s say that you finished a coding project or demo. Simply drag the folder onto the Builder menu icon, and it will:

  • Create a new “Publish” directory
  • Compress all JavaScript files
  • Compress all Stylesheets
  • Optionally upload them, via FTP, to a designated folder on your server.

If you’ve found yourself manually compressing your files and uploading them to your server, this automates the entire process!

What’s Coming Next?

This app is being actively developed. Coming soon:

  • HTML compression.
  • Automatic concatenation of all scripts and stylesheets.
  • Automatic updating of HTML files with references to the newly concatenated assets.
  • Single file uploads
  • After uploading, a link to the url will be added to the clipboard.
  • Glossless image compression

 
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  • Autarc

    Are you considering a Windows/Linux version too ?

    • Kieran

      Yeah, I’d really like a Windows/Linux version, if not by nettuts, then maybe a third party developer wants to take the reigns?

  • David

    Love the feature list, but need it on Windows / Linux. (Don’t own a Mac)

  • http://www.ar-web.net Khalid

    Really nice , but ! only works on mac and not all macs , just 10.6.0+ macs :( i’m really sad :(

  • Nico

    “Nettuts+ Builder: Free to Premium Members” You dont need a builder to make us premium :P Just remove the credit card requirement for the registration and i would been premium for years.

    - Offtopic, but well the Topic of that post ist “Free to Premium Members” ^^

  • Lucas Rolff

    For us who paid.. Will we get free 2.0 upgrade?

  • http://webdesigntips.in webdesigntips

    ohh. wow i love this builder…:)

  • eeean

    “Glossless compression”

    Tell that to all the designers stuck in the Web 2.0 shiny vacuum.

  • http://benmartinstudios.com.au Ben Martin

    Is that meant to be glossless or lossless image compression?

  • http://michaelhenken.com/ Mike Henken

    It would be awesome if there was an option to zip of the files :)

  • http://tutspress.com Tutspress

    looks nice builder. Ya need it on Windows / Linux.

  • Andie Evans

    :( not for windoze?

    • http://www.iapcsolutions.com iapcsolutions

      I can build a windows version. Who would be interested?

  • http://gfxkingz.org Fatih

    why every webmaster/designers are using Mac :(

  • sleeper

    Tell me, whats the point of preaching cross-platform EVERY chance you get, then going out and releasing the coolest apps for MAC ONLY… THAT S-U-C-K-S. How many people have to say the same dang thing for you guys to get it? Oh well, let me add my voice to the voices of those “crying in the wilderness”

    … …

    WINDOWS! WINDOWS! WINDOWS! WINDOWS! WINDOWS! WINDOWS! WINDOWS! WINDOWS! WINDOWS! WINDOWS! WINDOWS! WINDOWS! WINDOWS! WINDOWS! WINDOWS! WINDOWS!

    Your COMPLETE SILENCE to this call is astoundingly insulting. Not everyone has a mac…i know…take a deep breath…BREATHE… yes. it’s true…some of us cant afford mac’s (yet).

    C’mon Jeff. I love your work. I’m a paid subscriber ….AND I WANT THIS APP FOR W-I-N-D-O-W-S!!!

    enough already! Respond!!!

    … and do have a wonderful day :-}

    sleeper

    • http://www.jeffrey-way.com Jeffrey Way
      Author

      I’d love a Windows version too.

      • sleeper

        ??? … then MAKE one!

        nuf said?

        :-}

  • sleeper

    Dear Jeff..

    You wrote

    “I’ve decided to make the initial release available free to all of our loyal Premium members.”

    REALLY? I’m a “loyal premium member”… on WINDOWS…. So what does this mean to me? Cuz it’s sounds like this

    …”sorry fella, sucks to be you’”…

    Enough already! Windows!

    sleeper

  • sleeper

    Oh well …too all my “green with envy” windows peeps, I tried.

    I guess we all have stick with HTML5 BoilerPlate (and just learn to live without that new-fangled “Drag-n-Drop” goodness). (sigh)…We’ll all just have to suck it up and go get our HTML5 BoilerPlate here: http://html5boilerplate.com/

    sleeper