[thelist] Mac tools

[Beau Hartshorne]

> Someone said recently, "why not just get a mac..." and as a person who is
> good on both systems, I'd like to ask, what are your favorite web-building
> resources for the Mac? I have built entire sites using SimpleText and
> Netscape Navigator (no WYSIWYGs please), but had to scoot over to my pc to
> work in Paint Shop Pro for graphics (not in a position to afford PhotoShop
> or Illustrator, alas). I haven't found the wonderfully useful, budget-minded
> tools for Mac that exist for PC's. Mac-based image mapping
> software/shareware? Mid-range (price) graphics programs? Ideas welcome...
> thanks!!

The best text editor to use is BBEdit. A freeware version, BBEdit Lite 4.6,
is available here:

http://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit_lite.html

A good shareware graphic editor is Graphic Converter. This program is
frequently updated/fixed, and has many features that any web developer would
find useful:

http://www.graphicconverter.net/gcdownload_us.html

The best web browser on the Mac (it's been contested as one of the best
browsers available on any platform) is Microsoft Internet Explorer 5. It is
available here:

http://www.microsoft.com/mac/download/en/default.asp

Cheers,

Beau