Coda |
| Posted by The Devil on Mar 23 2008 |
| DKD Blog >> Applications |
I have never been a great fan of Adobe's Dreamweaver: it is very cumbersome and takes up far too many resources for what is, effectively, a text editor with added tips. I also find that its way of tying sites together is far too inflexible for the way in which I work—especially since almost all of my web design work is now done with Content Management Systems (CMS).
A few months ago, when I was out and about with my laptop and needed to do some editing, I suddenly remembered a favourable review of Panic's Coda, so I decided to have a look.
Quite apart from having one of the coolest websites around, Coda can be used, as a free trial, for thirty days (and that's thirty days of use, not thirty days from download).
So, I downloaded Coda and within minutes, I had fallen in love with it. It is a beautifully lightweight application, with a clean, uncluttered interface.
The Sites view allows you to assign various websites in an easy to access file, that even downloads a preview of the site to use as an icon.
One can connect directly to one's server and edit templates in situ—a feature that is particularly useful, in fact, for editing live CMS templates. Although I tend to hand-code for preference, Coda does include a WYSIWYG CSS editor too, for when you forget that exact selector name.
You can also preview your site within Coda (as long as that doesn't require a live server environment which most of my templates do).
The upshot is that I have been using Coda for about four months now, and it does everything that I want it to; in fact, I bought two copies—one for my Mac Pro desktop machine and one for my MacBook laptop.
And I am still in love with it!
Last changed: Mar 23 2008 at 6:02 AM
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