Everyone has their favourite Mac apps, so why be limited to creating templates in ExpressionEngine's <textarea>? Mountee allows you to access your templates as Finder files, so you can work uninterrupted in your favourite app.

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ExpressionEngine, hereafter EE, has great built-in support for managing style sheets and JavaScript. Here's one simple way to manage your style sheets and JavaScript files with cache-busting and gzip compression using EE's templating system.