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I'm a designer in Vancouver, Canada. I work at the Beaty Biodiversity Museum, am a director of the 221A Artist Run Centre, and a member of Fieldwork design collective. I'm an Emily Carr and University of Victoria graduate and have worked in the Philippines, Indonesia and the Netherlands. I'm a cycling advocate and race on the Garneau Evolution team.

design Goods and Services, July 15, 2007 4:50 PM 1 comments

Coda: a quick review

There are a lot of web design apps out there and I'm going to briefly highlight a couple things I like and don't like about Coda, one the more recent ones for Mac that a lot of people are (were...I just found it this week) talking about. Lots of thorough reviews to read out there.

I'll just touch on a couple tiny things. I've used Coda for one week now and I like:

• The screen grab it creates for your site
• How it remembers all the tabs and files you have open for a site
• The code editor is decent
• UI is slick and and pleasing
• Integrates well with OSX, using many of its features, like in its finder-like browser and using Safari for its built-in browser

Less hot about:

• When I update a remote CSS it doesn't auto refresh the browser view
• The 1-pixel target for changing the width of the file browser column
• How slowly the Books reference loads (flash?) even though I'm on an Intel 2.0 with 1.5 RAM

The main Coda window.

Detail of the code-view.

I like the screen grab and icon it makes for your site.