Re: I need Intel iMac Info

In article <1137818530.494487.250980@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"The OS/2 Guy©" <os2guy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I don't necessarily need to a web site design program as all of the
> websites I manage are designed manually. I am quite fluent in HTML
> coding. My concern there was would I be able to load up my own web
> pages, graphics, etc., into iWeb and publish (upload) them directly to
> a web site. If not, the iWeb program would be set aside and I'd rely
> on the ability to create web pages using a text editor and uploading
> them using an FTP program. If I understand correctly, the OS X
> operating system has a builtin FTP program - I need to know if it is
> restricted in any way. If I can utilize iWeb rather then set it aside
> that's a plus.

iWeb seems designed to turn out small, pretty sites, for people who
don't want to touch HTML (or even know it exists). The code it produces
is fairly messy. Essentially a styled div per paragraph, with pixel
sizes. I wouldn't turn it lose on an existing site.

Of the other drag and drop theme based web page creators, Sandvox is
still beta (or maybe even a bit pre beta). Produces very clean HTML,
but it needs more work.

Rapid Weaver has been out for a while. Again, produces very clean,
valid HTML, but the layout is table based. If you don't like using
tables for layout that may be a show stopper.

There are a number of editors you could use for HTML. The free
TextWrangler isn't for HTML, but you can do things like link it with the
online CSS validator, and it does color code the syntax. Does global
search and replace over multiple pages, using regular expressions if
desired. The same company produces the well regarded (but costly) BBEdit
which is an HTML editor. Smultron is also free, and like Text Wrangler
also does a little minor project handling (keeping track of the files in
each of several sites as a project file). I like its search and replace
even more than TextWrangler (also multiple documents, regular
expresions) I find it very Mac like, and a little easier to use than
Text Wrangler, although Text Wrangler has more features.

If you just want quick and dirty conversion of a file to HTML, the Mac
includes the command line textutil, which can convert text or RTF files
to (or from) an HTML file. Output is sort of like iWeb, pixel based
fonts in divs and spans. Not semantic markup at all, but good for quick
work, if you have two minutes to get say a text email converted and up
on a web page. TextEdit, the standard editor in Mac, seems to use
textutil to produce its HTML output. From RTF mode it will do lists,
tables, graphics and links, although it isn't intended for serious web
work.

Not sure what to suggest if you want serious large scale web site
management, for say thousands of files, with frequent bulk changes, and
driving it with databases. The Mac does have sqlite3 built in. There
are a bunch of packages out there, but I haven't tried most of them.

I think you will like a Mac. I used a bunch of minority style computers
(including OS/2) and dumped Windows a few years ago for Mac. Haven't
regretted it.

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http://www.ericlindsay.com
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