Panic software which makes the excellent Transmit FTP client for the Mac has released a new web development application called Coda aimed at the professional web designer. I downloaded it last night and tried it out and it really is a beautiful piece of software. I particularly liked the code completion on Coda. John Gruber has a good write-up on Coda on his Daring Fireball blog.

I currently use a combination of TextMate (great editor, especially since we work with Ruby on Rails), CSSEdit and Transmit. Am happy with this set-up, but Coda is certainly tempting. MacRabbit the makers of CSSEdit have just released an update to 2.5, which adds some great new features and improvements including tabs. Am looking forward to see what the new version of TextMate brings. :)

My favourite things about all the above software mentioned is their elegance and simplicity.

The only thing that is really missing for me at this point is a great Subversion Client. At the moment I use the cross platform Java based SmartSVN but it just does not have the polish that native Mac apps like CSSEdit or Coda have.

So all these lovely updates along with the recently released Adobe Creative Suite updates makes these happy days for a web designer using a Mac. Yeah, we love our Macs here.