Command(⌘)-click the Split button to create a new split with an empty HTML file. (more…)

Option(⌥)-click the new file button under the file list to create a new folder (instead of a new file). (more…)

Option(⌥)-click a toolbar button to create a new tab in that mode. (more…)

To open a file in an existing split window, drag it from the file browser to the split that you’d like it to open in.

Hold down option (⌥) before splitting a window to split it vertically instead of horizontally (or vice versa if you’ve switched your default settings).

Use Command 1-6 (⌘+1) to quickly switch between view modes. (⌘+2 and ⌘+3 to go between Edit and Preview are particularly useful.)

The Terminal is one of the neatest features of Coda, but not everyone sees it right away. A lot of designers cringe at the thought of it, but once you discover how powerful it is you’ll never stop using it. Here are some basic commands that you can use in the terminal:

cd go/to/this/folder - change directories
ls - list directory contents
grep keyword file - searches a file or folder for “keyword”

(This list is unfinished and will be updated soon.)

If you’re like me, you can’t look at a blaring white screen all day long (let alone two or three, if you have a multi-monitor setup). I switched to an inverted color layout a long time ago, but soon realized that my cursor would sometimes “disappear” in the Text Editor mode. Turns out that whenever I used Find & Replace, Coda switched the cursor from being white to black. Annoying!

However, there is a temporary fix while Coda (hopefully) patches this up. Simply open the Preferences pane, click on the Colors tab, and toggle Use Inverted Colors off and on again. Coda will make the cursor disappear again once you use Find & Replace, but toggling this option off and on again will always fix the problem.

To instantly close an open tag in Coda, hold down option, command, and period (⌘ .), or use the menu option by going to Text → Close Tag.