![]() I particularly like the Sites feature that records everything about the current site you’re editing – open windows, your position in each file, and the connection to the FTP server – in a single, pretty-looking page icon. To this end, Coda does a fantastic job it’s intuitive, easy to use, looks great, and really speeds up the website building process. The idea of Coda is to have all the tools you need to build web pages – a text editor, a CSS inspector, a preview mode, and an FTP/SFTP/WebDAV uploader – all in one handy package. Panic’s Coda ($80) is a powerful text-based HTML and CSS editor that also features a file uploader. Let’s take a look at some example Mac apps in each category. Examples include iWeb, RapidWeaver and Sandvox. It’s usually not possible to flip to a text editing mode and edit your HTML page in its entirety. Rather than editing HTML pages, you build your pages using templates built into the app, then publish, or export, your finished site as HTML, CSS and images. These are a relatively new breed of web-building apps. Examples include Dreamweaver, KompoZer and Amaya. Under the hood, though, you’re still working with an HTML page, and can usually go in and edit the raw HTML if you need to. You can enter and format text, and drag images and other media into the page. These let you work with your web pages visually, much like using a word processor. ![]() Examples include Coda, TextWrangler, and practically any text editor you can imagine! The editor may have some sort of preview facility so you can view your page visually as you go, but all the editing is done in text mode. With these editors you essentially work with the raw HTML and CSS code. Web page editing software seems to me to fall into three broad categories these days: When it comes to web page editors, Adobe once again rules the posh end of the market with Dreamweaver ($400), which is great for both visual- and text-based page editing. I’ve already covered image editors in this post I delve into the murky and varied world of web page editing apps. In this short series of posts I’m looking at Mac software that lets you build a decent website without costing the earth.
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