Develop your own site using the Mac-based Coda

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Develop your own site using the Mac-based Coda

August 28, 2008 in Design | Permalink

Although the majority of our day-to-day work is produced via the Windows operating system, some tasks are simply easier to complete using OS X. Web design is a good example. If you're a novice user, you can use a template-driven web design tool such as Rapidweaver to quickly produce a professional homepage. However, if you know how to code or edit web pages, there are other alternatives that offer you more control over the pages in your site.

Coda 1.5 is a commercial web design tool aimed at the professional market. It enables you to setup and control various sites, edit the pages that make up your site, preview the pages live and then publish to your remote server. The latest Coda 1.5 supports versioning, so more than one person can work on the site and revert back to a previous published page if required.

We used Coda to develop the vnunet.com Downloads Newsletter. It's a well designed application and enables you to quickly make changes to your code and then preview those changes, before you 'make live' your work.

Coda 1.5 link.