Work flow: Part 1

Working on a website remotely is a bit burdensome. I’ve always preferred to work locally then push my changes up to a production or live server. This too requires either maintaining code in two places (not such a big deal with Git), or working through some editor via ftp/sftp, etc. This method works pretty well, but has its own issues. For the latter I’ve used several tools to accomplish this from Dreamweaver, to Textmate + Transmit and More recently Coda.

The last editor in that list, Coda, is great, it has a ton of features, but it is not as zen like to use as TextMate. I recently found Sublime Text 2 which has quickly become my editor of choice. It is still in beta and stands to become even better. Net-tuts has a great tips-n-tricks to get you started http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/tools-and-tips/sublime-text-2-tips-and-tricks/

So, bridging the gap in server/local development. Therein lies the challenge. We will look at some techniques to get this accomplished as seamlessly as possible.

Most will want some sort of testing or staging area for actual server side development, so we will focus on the front end, CSS, Javascript, and some HTML.

To be continued…..