I’ve recently come across a new program that makes reading PDFs into a better experience. Oh, by the way, it’s free, too.
Viewing PDF files is easy on a modern Mac. By default you just double click on the file and Preview will open it up. There is no need to use anything else, though some […]

I love resource lists, good ones, of course. The idea that somebody has done the research and taken the time to organize it in a usable format and shared it with the world renews my faith in the web.
Here’s a great list of web based resources that any web designer should find useful. Some are […]

I’ve been using the demo version of iWork for a bit less than a week. Actually, I should say that I’ve been using Pages semi-seriously and have taken a quick look at Numbers and Keynote. I find that I need to actually use a program in my everyday workflow to get a feel for it.
Keynote […]

A job that small shop web designers have to do that isn’t talked about much is creating documentation. Sometimes we have to do so to support our clients in using the features we set up for them. Sometimes we have to document problems when submitting a tech support help ticket.

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A while ago I wondered publicly if BBEdit was worth the high price of $200 that Bare Bones Software was charging. It appears that I was not alone in my thinking. A new version of BBEdit came out this week that not only offers new features but comes with a new lower price tag of […]

Mac web editing software options have been growing in the last few years. In this overview I’ll leave out text editors like BBEdit and TextMate and focus only on those that insulate the end user either fully or partially from the underlying HTML code. Understanding how to create web pages from scratch with HTML […]