Currently I'm revamping our corporate website. Updating content, rearranging pages, actually doing a complete overhaul. I'm taking a momentary break to worship at the altar of Coda.
Coda, to be honest, was one of the biggest reasons I wanted a Mac. I had heard about it, read reviews, and envied those who had Macs.
But I didn't quite understand just how good it actually is. I'd set my standards low from working with multiple inferior products. The last time I revamped the website was pre-Mac. It was painful. I had limited access to pages, rearranging stuff was a nightmare, and modifying the HTML was a nightmare.
This time around, Coda makes everything easy. For example: I've got blocks of HTML I want to re-use, but not necessarily in a global search and replace (which is fast and easy with Coda too, btw). I need to make tiny modifications to it, but don't want to sit and retype it all each time. Nor do I want to go back to pages where it's been used and copy and paste it each time.
I was thinking, wow, a clipboard function would be really handy. Seems logical, I look around, see "Clips" on the bottom of the Coda UI and go: "hunh". Yup. It's a full clipboard with the ability to save clips of HTML in different folders, make them accessible global or just by site (I manage several sites...this is worth a lot to me), and even better than the average clipboard...I can EDIT the HTML at whim if I find that I'm making a particular change on a regular basis.
Best of all, it's an overlay clipboard that I can move around. I just drag it to my second desktop, let it sit there...and it's a simple double click to add the HTML to a page. I don't have to keep re-opening to access what I need.
It may not seem like much. But when working on a lot of pages with limited time...I have to say Coda has shaved hours, if not days off of my work.
Add to this subversion accessibility, the ability to share pages between users, terminal access through the main UI, and a host of other really important functions...and Coda offers everything I need to manage a website.
Thank you Panic.
Coda, to be honest, was one of the biggest reasons I wanted a Mac. I had heard about it, read reviews, and envied those who had Macs.
But I didn't quite understand just how good it actually is. I'd set my standards low from working with multiple inferior products. The last time I revamped the website was pre-Mac. It was painful. I had limited access to pages, rearranging stuff was a nightmare, and modifying the HTML was a nightmare.
This time around, Coda makes everything easy. For example: I've got blocks of HTML I want to re-use, but not necessarily in a global search and replace (which is fast and easy with Coda too, btw). I need to make tiny modifications to it, but don't want to sit and retype it all each time. Nor do I want to go back to pages where it's been used and copy and paste it each time.
I was thinking, wow, a clipboard function would be really handy. Seems logical, I look around, see "Clips" on the bottom of the Coda UI and go: "hunh". Yup. It's a full clipboard with the ability to save clips of HTML in different folders, make them accessible global or just by site (I manage several sites...this is worth a lot to me), and even better than the average clipboard...I can EDIT the HTML at whim if I find that I'm making a particular change on a regular basis.
Best of all, it's an overlay clipboard that I can move around. I just drag it to my second desktop, let it sit there...and it's a simple double click to add the HTML to a page. I don't have to keep re-opening to access what I need.
It may not seem like much. But when working on a lot of pages with limited time...I have to say Coda has shaved hours, if not days off of my work.
Add to this subversion accessibility, the ability to share pages between users, terminal access through the main UI, and a host of other really important functions...and Coda offers everything I need to manage a website.
Thank you Panic.
How does Coda compare to Textmate?
I've not used Textmate. I looked it up now, and it looks like it's very similar in options/capabilities to Coda. By screenshots of it though, I'd say Coda looks more streamlined and the layout is cleaner. Once I've finished up my website rewrite/reorg today, I may download the trial of Textmate and take a look.