Coda (Ultra-Brief Review?)

I started using Panic’s Coda for CSS/HTML designing and I have been really amazed. The app isn’t for complete CSS newbies, in the sense of Dreamweaver, but it does help a lot if you already write your CSS by hand.

The app I used for CSS prior to this was the glorious Textmate. While I haven’t yet gotten used to not having the Textmate keyboard shortcuts, I find having all CSS properties for all elements displayed right in front of you extremely handy. I am no CSS or design expert, so your mileage may vary, but I do believe this is worth a shot.

The two gripes I have with the software are a Hex-Decimal color picker and the price. The former isn’t really Panic’s fault as the built-in Mac OS X color picker doesn’t include a hexidecimal color picker by default.  I did find a nice free plugin that works well, though. As for the price, its about twice as much as Textmate and I use it less than half as much. So we’ll see what happens at the end of this trial.