Nov 26 2008
Made On A Mac
For those of you who don’t know, I’ve got another website that I sell custom-made wood growth charts. I’ve had it for about a year, and while it doesn’t generate a lot of traffic or sales, it’s there.
When I first made www.camscrafts.com, I used FrontPage to create it. FrontPage isn’t that great of a program, but it got the job done. While I wasn’t overly happy with how it worked (or didn’t work), it was at least something. After a month of using the site I created, a friend of my offered to make up a new one for me, using his Mac. I think it was a matter of 30 minutes, and he had designed the current site that is there. It looks great! I love the graphics and the friendly look to it. And for the last year, it’s worked well for me.
Now, I don’t do a lot of promoting of the site, but I was going to start advertising it a little more. I realized that I don’t have a gallery of pictures that show some of the work I’ve done in the last year. So tonight, I tried to add in a gallery page.
This is when I started to run into problems.
I don’t have a Mac.. FrontPage doesn’t seem to play well with others! I couldn’t incorporate a gallery page into my site because FP wanted me to have a FP-made page attached to the site.
Now, the obvious answer is that I should buy a Mac (to save you from saying it, my next computer will be a Mac! And you know who you are!) All kidding aside, it seems that in order to avoid bothering my friend everytime I want to change my site or something, I will need to create a new one, once again in FrontPage. So I tried tonight to re-create the current one in FP..
I might as well try building a particle accelerater out of a hamster wheel and an elastic band. I probably would have more luck! No matter what I do, FP just isn’t as versitile as the program on the Mac that was used. I can’t get text over a picture without it trying to convert the picture to a GIF..
So, I will rebuild my site using FP and then attempt to teach myself HTML to tweak it the way I want.. Although, I am thinking about the CSS route..
Oh well.. for tonight, no new changes..
Email me the pics and I’ll throw a gallery together for you – it’ll literally take about a minute to just add a new “Gallery” page to the current template and add as many pictures as you want. Once you tell iWeb you want a photo gallery page setup you just drag and drop the pictures onto it and it does the rest – it’ll do thumbnails that blow up when you click on them, and it even has a slideshow feature. I’ll just upload you the result and you can FTP it up to your server.
And congrats on the comp win…that’s a big deal indeed, not only from a money standpoint I’m sure, but for future recognition if there’s a recurrence.
Sorry I missed your call yesterday but I’m working 6A-2:30P now driving on the dock (long story) and answering the phone is impossible now unless you happen to catch me between loads. Give me a call around 3PM at home and I’m usually here now, or I’ll call you this eve when I’m home.
A side effect of getting up at 5AM now is that I go to bed at about 9PM, so anytime after 6PM your time and I’m already in bed.
I see Mark’s subliminal email and IM messages have made it through to you?
I think he gets kick backs for every Mac he influences people to buy.. Like commission..
All kidding aside, they are nice systems. I hope to be able to afford one myself someday.
I’m pretty sure that he does get kickbacks.. I’m also sure that he’s streaming all of those Mac commercials to my TV..
At this stage they’re supposed to be subliminal.
Damn, your onto me!
:-p