http://mactheweb.com Mac and the Web - Perfect Mon, 15 Dec 2008 22:45:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'm writing this review in the new blog editor, Blogo. There's a lot to like about Blogo. It has one of the easiest to use interfaces I've seen, and I've reviewed a lot of programs. For a blogger looking to move from website based editing it has a lot to ... http://mactheweb.com/software-review/blogo-desktop-blog-editor-review/ You have a working Drupal 6 installation. You have some understanding of how to administer the site and add content. But, you would like to know how people do some interesting things with their Drupal sites that you can't quite figure out. Maybe that's adding images, or slide shows or ... http://mactheweb.com/book-reviews/drupal-multimedia-book-review/ Got ranking woes? There are no shortcuts to building your page rank. You can advertise but doing so won't help a lot if your site isn't search engine friendly. Get ranking the right way. Here's a brief overview of steps you can take right now that will help solve your ... http://mactheweb.com/seo/cure-your-poor-engine-placement-blues/ 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 ... http://mactheweb.com/software-review/skim-a-better-pdf-reader/ Learning Web Design: A Beginner's Guide to (X)HTML, StyleSheets, and Web Graphics [ILLUSTRATED] (Paperback) by Jennifer Niederst Robbins (Author), Aaron Gustafson (Technical Editor) O'Reilly Publishing, 2007 Learning Web Design by Jennifer Niederest Robbins is billed as "A Beginners Guide to (X)HTML, Style Sheets and Web Graphics." It lives up to its billing. It ... http://mactheweb.com/book-reviews/learning-web-design-a-book-review/ 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 ... http://mactheweb.com/software-review/the-freelancer%e2%80%99s-toolset-100-web-apps-for-everything-you-will-possibly-need/ 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 ... http://mactheweb.com/software-review/pages-first-thoughts/