I'd start with the book Head First XHTML/CSS and get the basics down on building sites. You really just need a simple text editor for that, but you'll get a much better idea of how dedicated software might help in what you want to do. I use Dreamweaver CS4 on a Mac. It's extremely capable, especiall...

I waited a couple of months after Leopard's intro to upgrade - - let the first .point upgrade appear. It does seem faster than Tiger, and certainly as stable. I don't use many of the new features other than Time Machine, which works well on my MBPro to a 1TB FW800 drive. Since upgrading, there have ...

InDesign I do like, but I haven't been able to afford to upgrade from CS1, which means having to reboot from an external running 10.4.11, and that's often too much bother. Just a note that Adobe, at least in the U.S., is currently offering upgrades from any previous CS to the current CS4 at the sam...

Re InDesign, to be honest I haven't liked it since it launched, and I admit it's partly just because I was a hardcore Quark user for many years. Also, I never liked Illustrator to start with, so when ID came along with basically the same structure and UI, I was less than impressed. What do you find...

I actually do the majority of my web work writing html and css, but I do so either within Dreamweaver or BBEdit into Dreamweaver. I played with Freeway Pro for a bit once, but found the bugs and exceptions just too numerous. For me, working within DW is just great for having close integration with P...

My MBP has never gotten even warm to the touch. Most of the time it sits, closed lid, on a thin plastic/aluminum stand with a couple of fans blowing air across the bottom (can't hear the fans, very quiet). But even when perched on my legs or a tabletop, it stays quite cool. Don't know that I ever st...

Sure, you can use any of these to run Windows XP (I use Pro, SP2, recently upped to SP3). Bootcamp requires you reboot into Windows, while Fusion and Parallels let you run Windows in a, well, window. At least in Fusion, you can easily cut/paste between the Mac side and Windows, flip around the lot a...

Devon Tech will be offering a 25% discount, and free upgrade to versions 2.0, on July 1 & 2, according to a press release issued today.

http://www.devon-technologies.com/files ... -06-30.pdf

What will happen if I install OpenType fonts with the same name as the PostScript fonts? Is that possible? And if it isn't, what will happen if I de-install the PostScript fonts at first and then install the OpenType fonts? Will all programs take them as the same and replace the PS ones just like t...

There's quite a few notes about mechanical keyboards on another thread here in Software By Other folk: http://www.literatureandlatte.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=1358 For myself, I don't mind the keyboard on my MacBookPro for short sessions, or when traveling, but I'd hate to use it on a regul...

I quite expect this is part of Apple's text system, but perhaps someone knows a fix? Typing a paragraph in Scriv, a sentence includes the term ".50 caliber". On a line wrap, the "." ends the line and the "50" goes on to become the start of the next line. Not a bit deal,...

Oh, remembering the many hours spent playing in ResEdit...

Here's a page that covers a lot of icon creation and edit tools for Mac OS X. Note that some, like Iconographer, are now free, not shareware.

http://interfacelift.com/icons-mac/software.php

Have fun!

I've used InDesign since a year before release. Data merge works very nicely, and includes pulling in graphic tags, etc. Can't think you'd need them, but there are also some very sophisticated third-party data merge plug-ins for building graphic boxes on the fly, formatting, etc. That said, Xiam's n...

ike wrote:So they don't need ropes hanging off the lower limbs. (Unless I missed something in the translation). Ike

Ooops. Was speaking of my own family tree, actually.

I found it easier just to go visit the family tree itself. Some of the more recent ropes from the lower limbs were still in pretty good shape...