Coda - Web Developer Tool

Web developers usually have to deal with a few tools - with HTML-editor, the CSS-editor, the FTP-client terminal. Will be useful in the management and electronically form (because this version allows you to search). And the choice is simple - either look for the best program in their area, and then install a bunch of utilities, or try to find one feature-rich application. An example of the second embodiment is the program Coda.

Attempts to create a Web-authoring tool "all in one" often ended in unsuccessful as a result we obtain a monster with a confusing interface and a slow start. Panic programmers of this was avoided because Coda beautiful.

HTML-editor in Coda is very good. In addition to syntax highlighting (HTML, CSS, Javascript, Java, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, SQL, XML) and support Cyrillic encodings (the latter is deprived Textmate for ideological reasons) I liked the opportunity to work with several documents at the same time (they are opened in separate tabs). It looks interesting idea to insert blocks of text / code using triggers. This feature works as follows: you pre-define any piece of code (or text) to be regularly insert (lorem ipsum, doctype, etc., etc.), then type flip-flop (e.g., text TAB) and fragment inserted. This is an extremely useful feature.

There is a built-in validator, which is also visually beautiful. If you make a mistake, click the triangle in the side column. You will see a tooltip that tells you what kind of a rule has been violated. By the way, to work on the code may be a few people using Bonjour.

CSS-editor is also good. The user adds new elements, classes, indicates properties. Though mostly, it seemed to me, CSS-editor was created with an eye on the newcomers. They will be really easy to work with him. The only thing that did not like - you can not only view your changes.

FTP-client can pick up the settings (username / password) from Transmit, if it was previously installed. Instead of the usual menu with a list of FTP-servers where the user will see thumbnails of websites. Looks nice:

As I said earlier, the Coda comes with a set of e-books. It guides to the HTML, CSS, JavaScript and PHP. Directly from the program, you can search the content of the books. But what is more like it - the ability to search from the HTML-editor. For example, highlight any piece of code, press ⌘ + 'and the program code is already looking in directories.

Despite the large number of possibilities, Coda has an amazing interface. In fact, you get a single-window environment for web development. Many web designers celebrate as a major convenience of working with the program - possibility of transition from HTML- or CSS-editor to the terminal and back.

In general, I really liked the Coda. An overview of this program you can read Blog Alexander Timofeev. Perhaps his opinion for you to be more significant, because Alexander - experienced developer, including works which have LiveInternet. Ru.