I’ve learned a fair bit about how to put a website together. I may not have finished my original project but on the way I’ve learned a lot. Interestingly, my toolset has changed dramatically – gone is Dreamweaver as my development environment and in is Coda 2 from Panic. Dreamweaver is just too cumbersome for rapidly knocking together layouts. Coda on the other hand is amazing.
Coda 2
Coda 2 – it looks beautiful and it feels so lightweight. For the finest part it is what they call the Golden View – this means that you have the following all in one window: your html file, a preview of the page, and the css file – (admittedly easy for me with a 27 inch screen).
I use this in conjunction with Versions (a front end to Subversion) for source control. More about Versions and using Versions with Coda in the next post.
Coda also has a nifty “Preview As” feature so that you can see what you site will look like in a variety of browsers and devices – how about older versions of IE, Firefox, Opera or Safari? Also how about checking out what it will look like on an iPod Touch, or an iPhone or an iPad. Well, with Coda 2 you can, all in click. Now talking of previewing on iPad lets discuss Diet Coda…!
Diet Coda
They also have an amazing tool called Diet Coda – this allows you to preview your site on your IPAD (in real time as you make changes on your main machine) AND it allows you to CODE on your iPad – how cool is that? Fix defects while waiting at the dentists!!! Surely this is what we have all been waiting for.
So to summarise, if you are looking for a simple and beautiful tool in which to develop your websites, I would definitely recommend Coda 2 and if you have an iPad why not add Diet Coda.
P.S. I do not work for Panic and am not affiliated with them in any way what so ever.
DEVSTER JOURNEY 