...or how I make the magic happen
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None :( As much as I prefer Macs, my last one died (a hacked cheapo Quicksilver G4 from eBay) and there's no way I can afford a new one. Currently running a very reasonably priced 2.4Ghz Core 2 Duo, 4gig RAM, 500gig HD with an ATI 2400HD card (no good for games, great for 2D and video). Running Vista 64 bit which is fast and stable. Not perfect, but a shitload better than Windows XP.
I first started writing web pages using a copy of Claris
Homepage on
an LC475 running OS 8.1. I also used Photoshop 4 and a Microtek E3
scanner. The old LC475 was a very capable machine, even in the late
90's.
Until mid 2005 I used WebDesign. WebDesign is a markup editor, so the
creation of webpages takes a little longer, but the code is much leaner
and cleaner, which means pages load faster.
The advantage of using a markup editor over a plain text editor is the
handy colour coding of the code. It's much easier to spot mistakes, and
you don't have to remember all those pesky tags.
I've re-edited the existing pages in the Hacks
section, taking out all unnecessary tags, and like the rest of the
site, the design and layout comes from a stylesheet.
This sheet defines the design of all pages, including text style and
size, and also the background. This means I can change the whole look
of the site by just editing that one file.
I've now switched to Nvu, which is a WYSIWYG html editor. Despite this it manages to create clean html 4.0 compliant code. Not only that, it's totally FREE, and runs on Mac, Windows and Linux.
I'm currently trying Dreamweaver, as part of the CS3 Suite. It doesn't like some of my HTML, so I end up editing a lot of it in the Code view anyway. Hit <RETURN> and it starts a new paragraph which splits the boxes on the homepage. Manually use the <br> tag and I have no such problems.
The Autographs
page was
created using Claris Homepage, and and hasn't been cleaned up or linked
to the stylesheet. If you view the source (and if you're into HTML
coding) you can see it's a very fat piece of code, with a few odd tags
that are for Homepage's benefit only. One day I may get around to
cleaning it up. Maybe.
I'm using Filezilla to upload my site. It's free and it works!
Although there seems to be an update for it *every* time I launch it!
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