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 and [...]

I’ve written about Markdown before. Today I had another opportunity to be reminded of how truly great and useful it is. Markdown is a simple page formatting syntax and a Perl script that converts the Markdown markup to HTML. The script runs in either BBEdit or TextWrangler. It is also offered as a plugin for [...]

In Apple’s well-intentioned but misguided attempt to completely insulate iWeb users from any HTML it went past the point of reason. You can’t use code, even if you want to. Why would you want to? Google Video, YouTube, Odeo, Flickr, RSS Feeds, Del.icio.us, PayPal, blog exchanges and a host of services give us little copy [...]

You just want to write. That’s all you want to do. You don’t care about page formatting. Writing is all about words. Formatting can come later, especially if you are writing web copy that will end up in another program anyway.

Karelia Software publishers of the lamented Watson program that preceded the current version of Apple’s Sherlock, and which it looks like Apple, ah, borrowed from, has a new Web design program, Sandvox. Sandvox is aimed at pretty much the same target market as iWeb, though this time it appears that Apple’s development was really independent [...]

Mention the title phrase and, for most people, word processors immediately come to mind. For the old faithful that would mean Appleworks or perhaps Microsoft Word. Newer Mac users might think of Pages or TextEdit, which is included with the operating system. Of course there are other word processors that have their fans, both commercial [...]