Saturday, November 15th, 2008

Adding Sitepoint References to Coda

I kinda stole this right out of the Sitepoint mail, but I know I will loose this mail over time, adding it here is like pasting it in my scrapbook.
You can find the original story here.


Adding the SitePoint References to Coda


Mac users will
no doubt be aware of Coda, the popular
text editor for building web pages from scratch.

One reason Coda is so popular is because it brings the workflow for building
a web page into a single window — you can browse, edit, preview, upload and
change permissions on your files, all from the one application. For designers
who get frustrated at having five different applications open to perform all of
these tasks, Coda is a godsend.

There’s one other task that you can perform from within Coda, and that’s look
up reference information. By default, the collection of reference books
available is minimal, but you can extend this collection by adding what we
believe are the best reference books available — the SitePoint
HTML
and
CSS
References.

Here’s how to do it (with a hat tip to who documented this first):

1) Click the Books tab (Command-6), and select the + button
at the bottom to add a new book.

2) In the dialog window that appears, enter the following
information
(we’ll use the SitePoint CSS Reference in this example,
but just substitute “css” with “html” to add the SitePoint HTML Reference):

Book Title: SitePoint CSS
Book URL: http://reference.sitepoint.com/css/
Use For Mode: CSS
Search URL:
http://reference.sitepoint.com/css/*

3) Next, drag an image of this book onto the Cover Image
area.
We’ve created a couple of images that you can use for this
purpose, available for download here:

4) Click OK, and your book will appear in Coda!

The beauty of having this reference information within Coda (apart from the
syntax information and live
examples
) is that you can check browser compatibility for an HTML tag or
CSS property using the browser compatibility charts listed in the online
reference.

We have grand plans to provide similar integration of our reference material
for other editing tools. Our aim is to make this reference material available
to as many web designers and developers as possible — stay tuned for a very
exciting announcement on this front soon!

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One Response

November 28, 2008

No problem with you sharing the love, Sam. But please update the post to link to the original source at the top.

http://www.sitepoint.com/newsletter/viewissue.php?id=5&issue=52&format=html#8

Thanks, and glad you like the references.

Matt

Matthew Magain
Managing Editor, sitepoint.com