Web development software

Coda is a good option. If you want hosting go to http://www.webhostingtalk.com and ask there. They know what they are talking about when it comes to web hosting.

 

Coda is nice for static sites (It may handle PHP too). I just use Textmate for all my HTML/CSS/Rails/Grails development and it works like a charm

 

Coda and Textmate are both great. They both have different syntax modes (HTML, CSS, PHP, JS, etc). Using either has nothing to do with whether or not your building a "static" or "dynamic" site.

Textmate is just a glorified text editor and Coda is a text-editor that handles FTP as well as organizing and previewing files. It has a great CSS feature too.

 

I use TextWrangler. I don't know how these other programs compare. It's basically just a Text editor with some syntax recognition and FTP support. I got it to work with Fetch.

 

Coda, PHP, Taco

I use Coda but HATE doing PHP in it you have to save every time you tweak a little thing HTML live preview is nice but kinda slow sometimes. With MAMP PHP is easy to setup.

Taco is nice but it has some bugs and in the trial period I could still not get sites with CSS to load images set to background (even internal CSS)

I like Taco but the image thing makes it impossible for what I am doing.