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I'm a windows guy but I'm "tutoring" by friends girlfriend in the whole Internet thang. She is starting a web position in a few weeks and wants to make some of her own stuff in the future.

One of the problems is she has a Mac so some of the stuff doesn't "carry over". So for all you Mac people... are there programs/software/plugins you can recommend for web development? What are the "standard" things Mac people should need/use?

Thanks for your help... and I'm going to make her join WF soon so stay tuned for an introduction.
 


If you're talking about making websites, the best is the same as it is for Windows based machines, which would be the Adobe line. It is pretty expensive if you actually buy it, but Id recommend Adobe CS3.
 
I use both Mac and PC for site design and the best thing to do is stay with Adobe products as they can be used on both platforms. I have not strayed too far into mac-native applications so I might be a bit biased but Adobe works great for me on both my mac and pc. Good luck teaching someone how to make a website by the way. I tried doing that with a friend last year and I almost had a seizure when they ask questions like "can you do that for me?" like every two seconds. I finally just gave up.
 
Adobe apps for graphics. Textmate for code, and CSSEdit for, you guessed it, CSS.
 
Adobe apps (That includes Dreamweaver)

...that's pretty much it.
 
How to switch over from a PC to Mac? Easy.

Fucking pull the pencil out of your pussy, find a sledge hammer, destroy the Mac, and go back to your PC. Problem solved.
 
+1 vote for Coda.

Potentially obvious: As part of her design process she should remember to look at the pages on a PC - fonts are rendered differently on a Mac, so what looks good on one can look ugly on others.
 
Adobe, including Dreamweaver. Or, for web design BB-Edit is very good. There are free ftp programs, including built in to OS X, but Interarchy is the best by far.

If you absolutely need to test your stuff in IE or you're just sick you can run IE on an intel Mac with this ies4osx Good if you have web based apps you need to use that run active-x.

Learn some basic terminal stuff, ssh, ftp, etc.

Get Mac the Ripper, SmallScreenX, Fire for chat, jbidwatcher for ebay, for firefox get download embeded and maybe fast video download to grab youtube vids, Stuffit is good to have for zip, rar and more, Toast is best for burning.

For go's sake learn the keyboard shortcuts, you'll save so much time.

If you have an ipod touch or iphone get DVD ro iPhone convertor.
 
Textwrangler = free text editor with ssh direct support. Its the mac equivalent of ultraedit without the BS and its free.

I've got a PC too, but when I do dev I generally switch to vmware->ubuntu :) Windows sux but the pc is fast and I need to test IE :)

For FTP use cyberduck .. its free

For SSH use terminal

For dev use firefox + firebug
 
nis said:
Adobe apps for graphics. Textmate for code, and CSSEdit for, you guessed it, CSS.
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You definitely need to check out coda if you already use textmate and cssedit!


But Of course photoshop is a must have for the graphics. Also, for the love of god everybody don't use crap like dreamweaver! Just learn to code yourself!!E#
 
always remember that apple is for the newbs that have money, don't really know anything about computers and live in San Francisco. Windows is for everyone else.
 
nickclarson said:
Also, for the love of god everybody don't use crap like dreamweaver! Just learn to code yourself!!E#
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I disagree, Dreamweaver is great for web dev, I agree, learn to code. Don't use it in design mode. It does have a lot of great features, built in ftp, code snippets, collapsable tags, auto completion of closing tags, etc, etc.
 
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