As I predicted in May, I’ve switched to Coda as my full-time web development environment. I still find the occasional use for Transmit but I’ve almost completely fallen off the TextMate bandwagon.

I originally anticpated using Coda solely as an easy tool to help me make the simple updates and complete the maintenance tasks that come with being a freelance web developer. Of course, things didn’t exactly turn out that way in the end.

As time wore on, I found myself using Coda to build new sites from start to finish and getting things done just as fast as I would using TextMate and Transmit. Fore Score Golf Stats and the new system behind all of the mini-sites for Jack’s Sports Report were done entirey with Coda. I recently started a new project for a client and 90% of the work for it is being and will be done inside of Coda.

I still think Transmit is the best FTP program on the Mac and that TextMate is the best text editor. With Coda you make a trade off between the power and features that programs like TextMate provide with the ease of use that Coda gives you to get tasks done quickly.