Panic, the makers of Transmit released their all-in-one web development app, Coda today. The last “big” web development software package I used was Dreamweaver, but I have long-since left it in favor of Transmit + lightweight text editors. The combination is so fast that I can literally open Transmit, navigate to a file, open it, edit it, save/upload, and close both apps before Dreamweaver even opens.
Normally, when doing web work, I have at least these applications open: Transmit, skEdit, Firefox (with web developer toolbar). Coda brings all of those together into one, slick piece of software. I’ve used Coda all but 10 minutes, but it makes a really good first impression! The app is visually beautiful, functional, brings to the table some ideas in web development that have never been implemented this well before (in my opinion).
I wish there were more options in tag completion. I have gotten so dependent on my own “custom” tag completion that I’m crippled when I try to use another text editor. Maybe it’s time to learn something new…
The website, by the way, is beautifully designed, too.
Using Safari 419.3 on Mac OS
Wow! This is a very slick app. I agree the app and the website are very pretty. In my first 10 minutes of using Coda, other than just being pretty I found most things to be fairly intuitive which made it easy to jump in and start using. I also noticed that it looks like and even takes the same syntax modes as SubEthaEdit (my current favorite text editor).
Using Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.3 on Windows XP
Reminds me of the 37signals site.
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