At some point after I build my FWP site, I will be building an annex that looks and acts much the same but which is managed by its own feeder. Imagine this is blog software and I need to give it a template that almost copies that of the FWP site.
The question is, what external editor do you recommend? I already have BBedit and know that is good for the html, but it seems Coda would be friendlier, especially since I want to focus on CSS.
The question is, what external editor do you recommend? I already
have BBedit and know that is good for the html, but it seems Coda
would be friendlier, especially since I want to focus on CSS.
I use Coda and CSSEdit exclusively for both front- and back-end work
and can’t imagine using anything else. It’s a very good all-around
app. However, CSSEdit is still king for CSS work. There are many very
good editors, eg, TextMate, that do more than Coda and are aimed at an
even more technically inclined crowd. It really depends on what you
need from it. That being said Panic will be releasing v2 of Coda this
year and I know there will huge improvements across the board
including CSS. Between Coda and CSSEdit I have all the coding tools I
need and I can’t imagine you would go far wrong buying them. The fact
that Coda offers version control (svn and probably git in v2) and a
collaboration feature (SubEthaEdit) is a bonus in my book. I’ve used
the collaboration tool to help more than a few FW users sort out
problems over the past couple years.
Textmate is my favorite. It’s really amazingly extensible, so there’s a git plugin, an svn plugin, maybe even cvs if that’s your thing. It can do CSS, but like Todd, I prefer CSSEdit for that.
Forgot to mention Espresso from the MacRabbit (CSSEdit) kids. I had
high hopes for this one but it seems to be floundering. Definitely
worth a look if for no other reason than it’s another option. It has a
lot of potential and is very Mac-like but it wasn’t enough to tear me
away from Coda.
I use Espresso from time-to-time. I had faith that it’d be a great editor and what not because I use CSSEdit heavily, but due to the lack of updates and the lack of Sugar development, it almost feels like abandon-ware.