Key Features of MACAW - Web Design Tool

MACAW is one of the latest web designing tool that has made designing easy to a great extent with its special feature of writing semantic HTML and CSS codes. The tool is based on institutive idea of allowing user to draw rather than writing codes. It is also termed as code savvy because the said tool automatically generates code for your sketched website designs. MACAW gives you access to variety of image editing and design tools to turn your imaginations into visuals.

 

MACAW’s easy to use feature is versatile in nature. Although having basic understanding of HTML may help yet it’s not necessary. If you want to build a website for your small business or personal family blog than MACAW can be your best choice because making one time investment you can design your online presence much more effective as per your own desires. Another good thing about this design tool is that it gives exact view just like published website.

You have to pay only once for it and there is no monthly fee for it. Some of the key features that make MACAW a good choice for web designing include;

• The Application Is built in CSS, JavaScript & HTML

• Google web fonts are also integrated for easy use

•   Easy to use design interface

• Auto design to code conversion

• Global styles, easy to reuse in design making code much cleaner

• Good typography features like per line character counter

• Multiple pages creation ability

• Easy page linking

• Auto generation style guides 

Other than these features MACAW has some limitations like;

• Multimedia handling is not that much easy in MACAW such as YouTube videos,

• CMS integration is not possible

• It doesn’t offer mobile first design

In short MACAW can be a good choice for small websites but it’s not the ultimate tool for web design.