Blogging with Coda
Soon after the latest version was released, I downloaded the 30 day trial of MarsEdit, the desktop blogging app from Red Sweater. Whilst I didn’t use it enough to warrant buying a copy (I’m quite picky with posting quicklinks and blog entries and have my EE admin panel set up just right) I found the live previews really useful, letting me see what a post would look like in context before publishing. So, when my trial was up, I decided to try and replicate the feature in Coda, my web development app of choice.
Almost two months later, I’ve finally got round to recording a screencast on how I did it.
To really see what’s going on, head over to the Vimeo page and watch it in all its HD glory. If your resolution is big enough you might want to disable scaling. I’m sorry it turned out so long, I didn’t intend to burble on for 13 minutes.
If you want to set up the system for yourself, you can grab include.js here. Credit goes to Boutell.com for the bulk of the script. Of course, the same thing could be probably be accomplished in a much cleaner way using a server-side language but I wanted to avoid setting up localhost etc.
As I say in the screencast, if you have any questions or are having trouble getting things set up, just leave a comment and I’ll help as best I can.
Luis Grolez (3 months, 2 weeks ago)
Merlijn