Coda

April 26th, 2007 | Under software |

Coda UI

If you got your hands on Adobe DreamWeaver CS3 maybe you were as disappointed as I was about the UI. For its third Creative Suite, Adobe brought a beautiful, sleek and higly usable “new” interface, except for DreamWeaver CS3 (and some other minor apps too). DreamWeaver CS3 (for Mac) is still cluttered with floating panels and doesn’t wear the same elegant robe than the other major apps.

That’s why I give a try to Panic Software’s Coda 1.0. The first contact is charming: only one window, lovely previews and animations (yes!), perfect integration with Mac’s environment, and the tools seems to be very powerful.

I’ll review it, in a UI perspective, after a longer use. Thank you for any piece of advise or opinions you would have on Coda.

3 comments

1

try opening a css file, a html file and the preview window

then apple+1 apple+2 apple+3 …

it’s a cool feature

although CSSEdit is still best to edit CSS, TextMate is still the best to edit code

by the way, are you planning to use the sharing feature? We should try it at barcamp saturday. 2 people running Coda can edit at the same time a file.

2

Je n’ai pas eu l’occasion d’essayer la fonction de partage, merci pour les astuces.
Je vais essayer CSSEdit de ce pas.

En tous cas tu es mon plus actif lecteur, je vais devoir te décerner un prix ! Merci

3

Ummm… I dunno, this app is designed for one specific workflow. I love having transmit, textmate, and cssedit. I have each customized to my needs and they work great. Coda is cute, but it is trying to do way too many things and in the end I feel it will just end up like dreamweaver in 4 or 5 years. A bloated app that doesn’t do any one thing right, just a mish-mosh of technologies that panic can charge a lot of people for.

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