Coda is making my life easier!

Wednesday, April 25, 2007 · 16:58 · 0 comments

The crew over at Panic software never stop amazing me with their simple, easy to use, feature robust, non-bloated software. I remember the days of playing with Audion on Mac OS 9, and being amazed at how functional and pretty it looked in 9's very...bleak environment.

Panic is a company that proves you don't have to sell out to a bigger company to survive or make great productions.

Fun Fact: Did you know that Audion could of been turned into iTunes?

Their latest release, called Coda, is the one tool you need to code a website. It even works with buzzword worthy frameworks.

The days of having three or so programs open to make/preview your product are over. Coda includes a tabbed interface (big sell for me), file browsing, text editor, css builder, preview through Apple's WebKit (Safari), Terminal, FTP through another Panic product called Transmit, guides, and more.

When coding a site, the typical setup I had going was having Cyberduck up and running to upload files, skEdit (which could upload files through FTP too, I'm just too lazy to reenter) and an browser of my choice open.

Now I can consolidate all of that down into one window.

Cheers to Panic for making this great program. I will be getting a lot of use from it this summer.

Also, A List Apart is holding a web design survey. Head over and fill it out if it applies to you.

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