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I use a Mac at home and increasingly at work, and this site is almost entirely therefore built on a Mac.
These pages were originally put together by hand using BBEdit on a 12" PowerBook, but I recently converted to Tinderbox both to write the material and manage the content. This change came about from tinkering with the static website pro-forma content management Tinderbox template uploaded to the Tinderbox file exchange by Dr. Marisa Antonaya (which has proved a real eye-opener to me in how to adapt Tinderbox - thanks Dr. Antonaya).
I also use the usual panoply of Mac-type things to get things done:
- Transmit (FTP software from Panic)
- CSS Edit from MacRabbit
- WordPress (for the blog side of things)
- Photoshop for image editing and prep (Win version)
- SnapzPro for screen grabs
I continue to use WordPress for the blogs because I do not want to be tied to Tinderbox for such a movable feast as a blog. This has two aspects: a lot of blogging (mine at least, though I know others have a precisely contrary view) is rather shoot-from-the-hip where one is firing off ideas quite rapidly or commenting on other websites, snippets etc. The whole "note something, think about it, write a response in Tinderbox, export it as HTML, then upload the whole thing to your blog" renders this process too slow and unwieldy. The other aspect is that one may frequently be blogging from an Internet cafe somewhere and it is inconvenient to post in a stock browser on a Windows machine, say, and then incorporate the post back into the Tinderbox file later (though I guess that it did not slow Tinctoris down during his mammoth sojourn in some God-forsaken airport in the States over Christmas). Horses for courses, as ever.