Jan 29

A heck of a motor carriage

Posted by Colin

Mid last year I finally upgraded from the green Honda Civic I had been driving to a 2004 Honda Accord V6 Coupe. Quite an upgrade.

The Car

Upon getting the car, I started to look at options for adding iPod integration, my only requirement being that the head unit had to stay stock (I’m not big on ripping up the dash.) I quickly found that there is a lack of good solutions for Hondas. Read the rest of this entry »

Jan 29

Web Design With Coda

Posted by Colin

I’ll be the first to admit it, I’ve never been big with coding websites by hand. When I started doing web design, I started with my trusty copy of Adobe GoLive 4, and moved all the way up to Adobe GoLive CS2 from there. I spent some time in the code pane when I’d write my PHP, but CSS was edited within Adobe’s CSS editor.

With the Adobe/Macromedia merger GoLive met a quiet death, and I was left looking for a new web design tool. Dreamweaver was Adobe’s anointed replacement, but Dreamweaver’s UI was complicated, it’s CSS editor slim, and it’s site management tools extremely poor.

Enter Coda!

Coda icon

Coda is not a WYSIWYG editor. So going in, I knew I’d have to brush up my HTML and CSS skills. Transitioning didn’t take too long. It’s hard to do WYSIWYG editing in a tool like GoLive without knowing some HTML, so really most my time was spent brushing up on CSS. Read the rest of this entry »