...or how I make the magic happen
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G4 500 Tower (1.5gig RAM, 30 & 80gig HD's, running OS 10.3 Panther)
Colour Classic (12mb RAM, 850mb HD, 512k VRam, FPU & an ethernet card fitted, running System 7.5.5)
LC (12mb Ram, 160mb HD, running system 7.5.5, Extreme Systems Impact 33mhz 030 + FPU upgrade). This was my first ever Mac, and after being away for a while, it's come home :)
Quadra 700 (64mb Ram, 1gig HD running system 7.5.5, Supermac video card). Always wanted a IIci for no real reason, but the Quadra 700 is the same case (on it's side) but much much faster, especially with the Supermac video card fitted.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.
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 also using Transmit to upload my site. It's your usual FTP client,
but it has a handy synchronise feature, so instead of having to
remember which pages I've updated, I just hit the 'Synchronise' button
and it updates old with new!
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