Panic releases Coda web editor

For version one ... I have had absolutely ZERO problems after using Coda for a week now ...

sure there are problems and things that are awkward ... but IT IS VERSION ONE ... so they get a pass from me.

I recommend this app.

Coda takes a little warming up to, but I like it more the more I use it. I've posted a handful of tips, some fairly obvious and some easy to miss, at http://www.upstartblogger.com/30-panic-coda-tips-and-tricks, including the MAMP tip (thanks to #19 by dunk!).

Dave,

yeah I know. It doesn't run terribly, but there's a noticeable lag when using it. I was considering getting the new dreamweaver, but this is a very serious contender. From the screenshots, the new dw looks pretty ordinary, and i'd honestly much rather support smaller app developers like Panic than the behemoth Adobe which will get my money anyway for Photoshop and Illustrator.

#23: For the record, Dreamweaver is one of the few remaining apps that hasn't gone 'Universal' yet to run natively on Intel-powered Macs. Present versions need to run in an 'emulation' mode which, for our discussion here, severely limits performance.

With the release of Adobe CS3 this month, Dreamweaver and all of Adobe's other apps have gone Universal, so they'll run at full performance on both Intel and old PPC Macs. You'll just need the newest version, unfortunately.

(For the record, however: while I am a very n00b web designer, I think I'll still recommend Coda above Dreamweaver for most work like this.)

i think John Gruber on his Daring Fireball blog makes a good point...Coda is not going to replace Textmate or BBEdit. but i really like it as a one-stop-shop for quick basic editing/previewing/uploading of sites. i may pick it up and use it for most production, and pull out BBEdit when i need the "big guns" (like editing a 3 MB HTML file i have right now...)

Well, I've just come home from a day using it at work, and I only have one gripe.

The editor is not as good as textmate. I miss pressing escape to cycle through all the similar words on a page.

coda is nothing short of fantatic

i've been looking for this app since i moved to mac and discovered that dreamweaver runs very clunkily along on my macbook pro.

i tried all the different text editors, and a number of different solutions, but nothing could match the "sites" feature of dreamweaver - edit the file, save it, and it saves the local copy and uploads it to the server.

this is a fantastic app to replace dreamweaver. I don't really use the preview feature in dreamweaver, so ican't imagine that i'll be using it in coda, but everything else is just wonderful, lightweight, and a joy to use.

good work panic. i'll be testing this out for the full 14 days to make sure it works for everythiung i need it for, and then sending you my cash [unless of course you feel like giving them away for free :) :) :) ]

oh my.... only played with this for a few moments.. but I think... I am in love.

seriously I have 4 major web projects going on right now, and I have been quoted in the past as saying 'I hate building web sites' but I am constantly offered work doing just that, and latly have started to stumble my way through and get better at various aspects of it. I was enjoying transmit/cssedit and other great mac apps as tools to make things less painful.

but this... this is just bloody wonderful. I can see myself using it as the basis for any site, and calling on the bigger guns (flash/dreamweaver/photoshop) only when nessesery, instead of having to perform basic tweaks and tasks within a lumbering set of tools.

wow... ok... wow.

haha.. it's days like this that I am reminded why I am a mac user.

usability wise coda kicks aptana's ass, especially the font they use which looks like a custom job. i have friends who swear by eclipse, but i just can't get in to it. so of course aptana has the ability to use other views like php, svn, etc... and if i'm not mistaken there are some localhost/sql plugins. the ruby/ajax libraries are much more realized in aptana... but at the end of the day setting up coda to use you favorite libraries is pretty easy.

oh and again if you want localhost access see post #19. basically download MAMP and enable FTP in your sharing prefs. done and done.

Interesting that Aptana was mentioned, I'd like to know how it compares