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Back to Basics with Build Your Own Web Site The Right Way Using HTML & CSS
With Google seemingly launching a complex, new web application every week, it’s easy to get caught up in the waves of cool, new stuff hitting the Web every day here at SitePoint HQ. But this past week, I had the opportunity to get back to basics and remember what it’s like to build your very first web page.
My girlfriend Jessica is completing a postgraduate teaching degree, and one of her assignments was to produce a web site describing a number of ways in which computers could be used in the classroom. In preparation for this assignment, her lecturer gave a brief demo of Dreamweaver, and suggested that students who couldn’t figure out the program could just design their site in PowerPoint (yes that PowerPoint!) as a series of cross-linked slides and export them to HTML.
Now, Jess is studying to teach drama and English, so she could easily have taken the path of least resistance, but as we had just received our office copies of Ian Lloyd’s Build Your Own Web Site The Right Way Using HTML & CSS, …
Adobe CS2 breaks Intel Apple Macs
Last week, I realized that we needed an Apple Mac for SitePoint’s upcoming Photoshop Anthology book.
Being a PC-centric office, the poor old G3 that we use for browser testing was looking more like it belonged in an antique shop than up for the challenge of rendering a 300 page full-colour book, so we purchased a brand new Intel Core Duo Mac Mini for the task instead. It was all very exciting — the package was so tiny and exquisite, the instructions minimal and simplified, the design of the tiny white box so refined and sleek. My mind began picturing all sorts of geeky scenarios, mostly involving Boot Camp, and I immediately became the envy of the office.
Unfortunately it wasn’t long-lived. You see, basic functionality is not related in any way to how sexy your computer looks.
Here’s the thing that really surprised me though: it wasn’t any under-the-hood meddling that got me into trouble, it was basic conflicts with run-of-the-mill standard software. What’s one of the very first things you would do when purchasing an Intel Mac Mini? That’s right, you would install the latest software updates from Apple, as well as the Adobe CS2 suite. Unfortunately, that combination …
