On Jun 19, 2012, at 7:37, Jeffrey Hergan <[email protected]> wrote: > A very dear friend with a website asked a question I don't know the answer > to. She runs a small business website. Types all the code old school. But she > wants to switch to a gui wysiwyg solution. Two questions: What is the best > app for doing that on a mac? (Price is not an issue.) And maybe even more > importantly, will she be able to somehow import all of her current code, or > will she have to start from scratch?
As I see it there are really only two choices for someone who is used to coding HTML by hand, BBEdit or Coda. From the little I've seen of Coda it is a very nice HTML editor, and it has one "killer" feature in that you can use your iPad as a preview of the live code. It also has one of the cleverest sync features to tie your iOS coda to your OS X Coda I've seen (for iPad 2 and new iPad, at least). Both are available via the Mac App Store or directly from the developer. Coda has a different feature set depending on how it's bought. MAS allows it to use iCloud to store all its data, while the direct purchase allows privilege elevation. BBEdit direct purchase has privilege elevation as well as command line tools that the MAS version lacks. BBEdit is $50, coda is about $75 (currently on sale, regular price is $99). Coda also has a companion iPad application named Diet Coda that is $20. I own BBEdit and have been a happy user of it since I purchased it for c. $120 many years ago (I believe I bought version 6). BBEdit does a lot more than just make HTML coding easier, and even though I rarely code HTML anymore, it is still my go-to editor. After Mail and Terminal it is my most used application. I even use it as a shell substitute at times as it gives me a way to use its excellent PCRE Grep to do file manipulation.
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