Thanks for sharing that tool with us!

I dislike such guis for css they glare too much, keeping you from getting things done. But that might just be me..idk

Tools I can recommend are:

Coda or Espresso for Mac
Notepad++ + Netbeans for Windows
Geany, Vim or Netbeans for Linux

My absolute favorite is Notepad++ I like that editor really much but it's unfortunately for Windows only. (I work on mac/win/nix*)

Personally I'm most efficient with a pure editor like N++. I've used guis in the past, but Dreamweaver/Fronpage are editors for the Beginners imho.

just my 2 cents

PS: I also like using SmartGit which is a neat gui for git. I can version my work this way easily.

Yes I too like the tools you listed. However for those that are new to web design, themes and code this is a very powerful program. To be able to create a concrete5 theme from scratch without having to modify a free template or someone else's work sounds really good.

The creators of Flux are looking into an export feature for concrete5.

Yeah, if they include an export feature, that would make sense. You really need a couple snippets: header required, footer required, then an area for each place where you should be able to add blocks.

Hopefully, too, their CSS styles are designed to favor tags rather than classes. If they're created to work with generic tags like H1, P, H2, blockquote, UL, etc, it'll work great with the majority of blocks which are available. If the styles are all meant for elements which only have specific CSS classes, they'll have a harder time getting custom blocks to work.

Fernandos:

Hope you don't mind me adding to your list as well with my two cents :)

I like using Dreamweaver for the initial build, because it's so fast to write CSS by hand using the live view. I can load my client's comp as the background, then I can tweak and refine the CSS until it matches up exactly.

From that point I'll turn it into a theme for Concrete, and move on to tweak it by hand or using changes I've done in Opera Dragonfly. Otherwise I might keep the HTML-only style around to use as a template, then copy the changes back to the actual theme once I'm done.

For text editing I prefer FlashDevelop over anything else I've used. It obviously hasn't been specifically designed for HTML work, but its code coloring is pretty good, and it's all around a great IDE.

Great news the guys at Flux just released a preliminary Concrete5 version 2.47 - AWESOME! - When starting a new theme it automatically creates the; default.php, description.txt, images folder and css folder. If anyone has time to explore post back here or PM me. Thanks

sounds good mike^
I've unfortunately no mac at hand atm to test it out :(

I'll maybe try it tomorrow

Mike --

I can't locate anything like that on their site -- how do I download this addon to test/try it out?

Even I have paid for Flux and it is a very elegant piece of software, I can't work with it. I tried exploring it, especially for building C5 themes but it just outputs garbage from time to time. I worked with the code view, added some HTML and found it inserts double tags randomly. So I ended removing all that double "head" tags and other stuff. Fixing the code took more time than build the page.
Of course Flux is in heavy development and I am sure they will fix things soon, but at the moment, I simply can't recommend it.
That's sad as it is very promising and could fit the whole between Dreamweaver (or other GUI-based editors) and code editors.