You want to take control of your marketing efforts, or maybe inform the members of your non-profit, or simple express yourself. A website is a great tool for those needs. Others too.

Macs have always had pro level design programs. But the average consumer pretty much had to rely on plain old HTML to create web pages. Fortunately, that’s no longer the case.

We all like free. It may be the best four letter word in the English language. But doesn’t free mean crippled when it comes to software? Not necessarily. It’s perfectly possible to use free tools, beginning-to-end, to create a website. The only limit on the quality will be your skills.

iPhoto has always been a good consumer level image catalog. And with each new version, just as you would expect, Apple has added features. Now iPhoto 6 coupled with Tiger’s built in editing tools actually gives us a reasonable photo editing tool for our web work.

You want to make web pages. You don’t want to learn all that messy code. You don’t want to spend much, if anything. You’ve looked at iWeb and RapidWeaver, but don’t want to have to depend on somebody else’s templates for your design. It’s do it your self all the way. Are you crazy or [...]

For simple picture manipulation, ImageWell is exactly what the doctor ordered. It makes it quick and easy to get pictures web ready. And the price is easy to swallow, free. When getting photos ready for the web or email, what capacities do you need? What I typically do is crop, resize, rotate (when necessary) and [...]

Cyberduck is the most polished free Mac FTP program available. It’s GPL Open Source, too. If you have modest FTP requirements it may be all you need. And, I love the rubber ducky icon. It’s worth having a copy just to have the ducky in the dock.