I’ve been using Coda for web development. It’s a nice program, but I wonder if there are any other programs that can raise the bar a bit higher. Fortunately, such programs exist to make webdesigners lives easier at a small price.
Web Development
MacRabbit has these two promising looking applications, one that just got released to the public called Espresso. It seems to fall short of Coda without quick preview. However it does have the benefit of including a FTP program inside so I don’t have to use Transmit when updating files.
CSS Design
CSS Design is usually a big headache, especially with cross browsing since they all never play nice *cough*internet explorer*cough*.
While the feature with Coda is nice, but it doesn’t really work for me. With CSS3 and HTML5 coming around the corner, there will be a new set of rules to learn. Not to mention that finding how CSS is working with Safari is not possible since there are no plugins like WebDeveloper for Firefox. CSSEdit is there to help. The X-ray feature alone is worth getting the program. There are also many other features worth taking a look.
Project Management
For getting projects on time, I would normally use iCal to set up dates when things were due. While it’s nice, it can get messy. Just the other day, I found Things. Finally I can get my projects organized. It’s like an extension of iCal.