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Need help with creating a new character sheet

I want to work on a character sheet for a game that I'm eventually going to run, in an unspecified amount of time. I'll more than likely pay for a Pro account when I start running, but is there a way I can work on creating a character sheet in the meantime? I tried downloading an example character sheet's CSS and HTML files from github, and opened the HTML file on my PC, but it didn't look like it would on Roll20. Is there something I'm missing?
1491888903
Lithl
Pro
Sheet Author
API Scripter
Ian S. said: Is there something I'm missing? base.css, app.css, and the ancestor elements of the character sheet. =) Here's a skeleton that should at least get the styles correct:&nbsp; <a href="https://jsfiddle.net/Lithl/f2czn6wy/" rel="nofollow">https://jsfiddle.net/Lithl/f2czn6wy/</a> That won't give you all the functionality (repeating sections won't work, for example), but it's a starting point for checking what things will look like without having a Pro account.
1491889205
vÍnce
Pro
Sheet Author
You'll have a hard time getting a good preview of a custom sheet outside of roll20. &nbsp;I once setup Dreamweaver to preview off-line. &nbsp;I used local copies of the css files that load with roll20's editor and made a wrapper that would emulate the editor by calling the two css files as well as the sheet's css. &nbsp;The sheet's code would sit inside the wrapper. &nbsp;This worked OK, but if I recall you couldn't load the pictos fonts and rep items won't work either. &nbsp;Makes testing problematic. &nbsp;Best to go Pro, edit directly from the character sheet html/css editor or better yet with an external text editor (notepad++, vscode, sublime, etc.) Forget the preview tab, it's rather buggy. &nbsp;Preview in-game from another tab. &nbsp;Get used to the copy/paste/save/reload/preview shuffle. &nbsp;&nbsp;
1491889228
vÍnce
Pro
Sheet Author
What Brian said. &nbsp;;-)
Ok Vince, I thought I might have trouble without a Pro account. I just didn't want to be sitting on a Pro account if I wasn't going to be running for at least a month or more.
If nothing else, I still have a Character Sheet that I wrote in .ods/.xlsx, I was just hoping to do some work ahead of time.