ATTENDING: Tom B, Bob S, Jerry
L, Larry T and John K.
NEWS :We discovered that a
new MUG has recently formed in Wayland, NY, and we were glad to have
two of their members attend our meeting today. The Wayland MUG will
meet for the 2nd time on Monday, February 22 at 5:30pm at the Wayland
Free Library. Larry shared some brochures from his favorite local
Mac store near Victor (Mac-Ave).
John demonstrated a cool way to make quick recordings using a tiny
USB device called a RCA
Digital Voice Recorder (sells for $30 at Amazon).
Demo: 1-Minute Website
Using TextEdit (the
free word processor that comes with OS X) and basic HTML (Hypertext
Markup Language), Tom gave a step-by-step
demonstration of how to create a simple website from scratch. See
his 1-minute website here.
Another tutorial with pictures can be viewed here.
Basic HTML tags use
'chicken beaks' < > found on the mac keyboard next to the '?'key.
<html>
<head>
<title> </title>
</head>
<body> </body>
</html>
Note: You can see the HTML
for this webpage by going to top menu: View > View Source
Web Color
Hexadecimal
Color Chart - 216 web-safe colors with six-digit RGB color codes
for HTML websites.
HTML
Color Picker (interactive) - quickly find hexadecimal codes with
mouseover - very handy! TIP: Go to the w3shools website to find this
tool, shrink your
browser view to a small corner of your desktop when working w/
colors.
WYSIWYG Web
Design Software - What You See Is What You Get)
Adobe
Dreamweaver CS4 (Creative Suite $399) - one of the best professional
softwares for web design - student/teacher/parent discounts here ($109)
- older versions of Macromedia Dreamweaver MX also work well and
can often be found on eBay. This H'port MUG website was designed
using Dreamweaver (see note).
RapidWeaver -
low cost WYSIWYG web design software for Mac - free trial / buy $89
- Mavericks or newer (163MB)
Apache -
web design/server packaged with every mac OS (HD > Users > Home > Sites > Index)
SeaMonkey -
free WYSIWYG html web editor and composer with browser - made by Mozilla
- download (60MB)
TextWrangler -
is a handy free HTML editor (12.1mb) which shows html in a color-coded
format. See a TextWrangler view of this page by clicking here.
Website Hosting
use
Apple's iWeb(part
of iLife suite-$79) to design your website. Then publishit
to Apple's MobileMe at
$99 per year - or through commercial FTP hosts such as MacHighway ($49.50/year
with one year free Domain Name registration). Another
place to register a domain name is Dotster.
Weebly -
free website hosting and design. See HPORT MUG example.
Using TextEdit (the
free word processor that comes with OS X) and basic HTML (Hypertext
Markup Language), Tom gave a 
use
Apple's 
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