It’s no suprise – i’m a BIG Apple fan. I own an iPhone, iMac, MacBook and Apple TV. It’s not just the design and aesthetics that I love but the whole UI and user experience aswell as the great software that gets attracted to the platform. Sure, there are other products that work or have the same features as Apple do – but they don’t seem to be able to pull it off in the same way. So enough of the usual Apple fanboy babble, onto this post which is about three essential tools for anyone doing any Web Development on a Mac. I have included a local server, code editor...

I have started using a new tool when coding my sites – Coda. This tool in my opinion beats Dreamweaver on a number of points, amongst which the simple but useful tool bar that features: A proper preview – Unlike Dreamweaver, Coda uses your favourite browser to render a preview of your page (if you use Dreamweaver you will understand what I mean, a site never looks the same in the ‘Designer’ tab. Its easy to switch to preview as you don’t even need to leave the application. A good file browser – That allows you to view remote and local files and offers syncronisation...