Dreamweaver CS4 vs Coda – Search Smack Down
November 6th, 2008
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I have been using OS X for development now for the last couple months and one of the apps I was looking forward to trying out was Panic’s Coda. Unfortunately the first version of Coda was missing a critical feature for me, site wide Search. Recently Coda released an upgrade and among a ton of other awesome new features was site wide search.
One of the first things you will notice is that it is fast, I mean really really fast. Now I suspect that it is because Coda is using OS X’s Spotlight. Now on the other hand I have been using Dreamweaver for the last 9 years, starting with Dreamweaver 3. Dreamweaver does a lot of things very well but it has become a very big application, some what bloated. Search has always been really cumbersome and it becomes more evident when you compare it to Coda.
Since Dreamweaver is on Windows & OS X, I suspect Adobe has not got around to optimizing Search on the OS X version. Take a look at the video below to see how much better Coda is in Search. I’ll continue to highlight the differences in Coda and Dreamweaver, since Coda is only $99 it could save some people money without losing functionality.
Pete Bernardo is a designer, information architect, etc. in Miami, Florida.
November 8th, 2008 at 9:05 am
Sweet… i’ve been thinking about using coda instead of shelling out many many pounds on Dreamweaver cs4… You’ve just made my mind up.. thanks dude!
November 8th, 2008 at 10:21 am
Awesome, glad I could help. If you are comfortable or want to become really good at coding, Coda is the way to go on OS X. I’ll highlight some more features eventually but previewing a site in Coda is also light years better than Dreamweaver.
Let me know if you have any questions
November 26th, 2008 at 2:14 pm
I tried out Coda about 6 months ago desperate to find an alternative to Dreamweaver but it lacked a few key features one of which was site wide search! It’s great to see that they’ve also added a plug-in architecture which is what gave dreamweaver its edge. I’m looking forward to having a play.
Dreamweaver has frustrated me for the last 3 releases because they have done nothing to improve the app, only ‘add’ supposed useful ‘features’. Simplify, simplify and simplify some more. Make things easier for developers. Don’t add features thinking that you are adding ‘value’. Typical McDonalds thinking.
Rant over!
January 14th, 2009 at 8:17 am
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