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.

Well, here she is...

Wednesday, April 18, 2007 · 11:38 · 0 comments

It didn't turn out exactly the way I wanted it to. There were some "bugs," when I transfered the theme over to the CSM, and I hammered all of them out except for one. I'll squash you bug!

I will pat myself on the back for achieving the goal of making the simplest, dullest blog template known to man.

I call her, "Destin." Yes, it's named after the beach town that I grew up next to.

This is the new code base that I will use to develop other websites off of. The code still needs a bit of work and dusting, but it's still the leanest thing I've slammed together. It was an easy feat to accomplish. I'm not going to act like I spent hours making this. Actually, I probably spent a good week tweaking the color of the top header, but all I did was take a template I made two years ago and dilute it. :)

I'll be going into over time soon. I have six websites to work on, and I'll be using Destin to lay the foundation for those sites. I needed something...minimal to work with, and here it is.

EDIT 2/2/2008: What happened to those six websites? Well, they fell through. The person(s) I was making their site for lost interest, and so did I. Sucks when you live in an area that's more focused on retail than anything else, and not the inevitable future. This isn't the 90s anymore. Everyone has a website. Even if it does nothing but sit there and display a picture with your contact information, it's good for business.

Also, this here blog on bogdind was built using the "Destin" (named for its beach inspired color scheme) theme I made last year. If you're a website developer, you will know that most websites, if not all, have the same layout (minus a column or two), but the HTML magic can be written in different ways. You get the same outcome. "Destin" was written from scratch and memory. If you compare it to another blog that has a two column layout, you will see that our code differs greatly. It can depend on the Doc Type the developer wants to throw at the top of the site's code, or he/she has a different way of doing things. And that, my child, is where the magic happens.

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