“One-window web development”

Coda unites all your different web development tools under one beautifully designed interface.

From text editor to previewer, CSS editor or terminal, Coda includes all you need to write up, review and upload your web pages. The program is flexible: projects are considered as sites, which sync perfectly with your server and maintain all your changes. You can connect to any server and thanks to the Transmit Turbo Engine quickly upload changes remotely.

In terms of editing, Coda offers up advanced features like auto completion, block editing or syntax coloring. You can also drag and drop clips of text anywhere. As of CSS, Coda offers two editing modes: visual and text, the first being more user friendly and the second best for advanced users. Coda has also thoughtfully integrated a terminal window, so you can run MYSQL queries quickly or connect to a local shell.

But it's the design that really stands out in Coda. Winner of the 2007 Apple Design Award, the program has been redesigned with a sleek Leopard GUI. Full of colors and smooth animations, Coda is a real pleasure to use and very well structured. The program even features a collection of reference books if you need a spark of knowledge to help you build your site.

Coda is a beautiful, all in one web development tool you can't go without if you're building web sites.

Languages:

English, Dutch

Recent changes in Coda:

Leopard improvvements
Added new CSS bookmark symbol: /* !bookmark */
Fixed possible exception when closing / opening tabs in some cases
Fixed exception in CSS editor after changing values in filtered mode
Fixed possible exception when canceling an operation in the queue
Fixed more exceptions in a wide variety of situations
WebDAV relative login paths now work as expected
Preview: DOM inspector bounds clipping now works better with Flash & iframes
In some cases, tab tooltips would not disappear after clicking the mouse in the tab header
Bracket matching ping no longer shows if you press return on a blank line after a close bracket
Improved Site selection when clicking with the mouse
Renaming no longer selects the file extension if it's visible, like the Finder in Leopard
Coda now detects network loss and attachment
Opening a terminal in a new window now respects current mode
Clone tab now respects current mode
Tooltips added to toolbar buttons
Clicking a tab or toolbar button now shifts focus
Now shows a temporary progress dialog if trying to close a site while transfers are happening
Fixed various missing pages in Books
Renaming local symlink reliability has been improved
Inserting clips now respects current file line endings
eList window no longer crashes Coda if you quit while the window is open
Mark for Upload contextual menu item once again works as expected
Improved remote symlink behavior on some servers
Double-click to select a word, then shift-arrowing now correctly selects words
Preview: Console now correctly remembers its size when re-opened after being closed
Improved subroutine recognition in ASP-HTML mode
Now hides warnings button if activated and the split is too small to fit the button
Preview: Remote server-side-includes are now loaded if local URL is not set
Autocomplete: Can no longer drag scroll horizontally
Autocomplete: The autocomplete window now closes if the window/app doesn't have keyboard focus
Creating a new document with Coda minimized now un-minimizes the current window

OS requirements for Coda:

OS: Mac OS X

Minimum requirements:

Mac OS X 10.4 or later

Pros

Integration of core features
Leopard GUI
Code completion
Collection of built in books

Cons

Can be overwhelming for first time users

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From the publisher of Coda

Coda is an all in one tool for web developers. Looking to simplify your web workflow, Coda incorporates a text editor, a previewer, a CSS editor, a terminal and some solid references. The program is quick and flexible and should harmonize the way you work. It offers the following features: