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 [...]
The Art of Newsfeeds
RSS newsreaders deliver headlines with all the panache of a brick. But a growing number of bohemian RSS mashups are combining news feeds with style, art and whimsy. Electronic artists are tweaking RSS interfaces, harnessing Flash animation and relational algorithms to breed outlandish, new ways of presenting information captured from news feeds. The results are [...]
Curio truly thinks different
Every once in a long while a program comes along that is genuinely different, that takes an old problem and offers a new solution or novel way of working. Curio from Zengobi is just such a program.
Markdown the fastest way to write HTML
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 [...]
iWeb Enhancer
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 [...]
CMS Showdown Joomla vs. Drupal
CMS and Software Review
Joomla vs. Drupal In the world of Open Source Content Management Systems (CMS), there are currently two big names. Well, actually three but two are forks of the same original. Those programs are Joomla and Drupal. Joomla is a recent fork of Mambo and currently offer the (nearly) same features. There’s a whole lot of [...]
WriteRoom a full screen simple text editor
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.