[thelist] Web Design on iMac

I used a PC for about a year & then got this iMac.  Computer for me 
is a means to an end, not a lifestyle (yeah, right).  For the $$ I 
put out, I've gotten great value.

I do everything on my iMac. Except when I'm travelling.  For that I 
have my iBook.

I wish my monitor were bigger.  I start to get eye/backstrain at 1024x768.

Disk Warrior coupled with Norton Utilites has saved my butt more than once.

Once I started using BBEdit there is no way I wanted to go back to PC 
ever... even HomeSite feels awkward to me.

Hate to admit this, but I hardly even check my work on a PC anymore. 
(keep in mind I generally don't use DHTML) I'll do one site design, 
check it once on IE & NN for PC, and rock on.  I've found a lot of 
variation between PCs on gamma or whatever you call that that makes 
them display color so goofy.  :)

In general, if it's dark on the Mac, figure it will be darker on 
many/most PCs.  I think colors at the darkest end of the spectrum are 
the most troublesome.

NN 4.7 is just about the same on PC & Mac except, as mentioned, with 
font sizes.

I love love love IE 5 except for the cache issues previously 
mentioned.  I use IE5 as my main browser for development & 
everything.  If it works on IE 5.5, next I check NN4x and then some 
kind of 3.0 or non-CSS browser.

When I must specify CSS font sizes, I go with px; it's pretty comparable.

There are funky things that go along with the USB ports.  And if 
you're in trouble you can only boot from the CD... did I mention Disk 
Warrior?

Erika



>on 6/19/00 6:18 PM, Annie at aphelan@norlink.net wrote:
>
>  > thanks for the info! i do have PC's available still, however the 
>iMac will be
>  > my
>  > primary workstation, so your tips are invaluable :) you mentioned that it
>  > handled
>  > IE5 DHTML, how does it work with Netscape?
>
>Netscape 4.7/Mac is fairly equivalent to NN 4.7/Win. CSS fonts spec'd in
>points will be different however.
>
>James.
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