FortyPacesBackwards» Web Stuff http://fortypacesbackwards.com Here we are, now take forty paces backwards Mon, 16 Jan 2012 10:34:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Macs http://fortypacesbackwards.com/2008/10/10/macs/ http://fortypacesbackwards.com/2008/10/10/macs/#comments Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:54:13 +0000 http://fortypacesbackwards.com/?p=80 I was ‘brought up’ on Macs (actually without my first Mac Plus I don’t think I would ever have got used to computers. Around 1998, however, I fell out of love and went the way of Mr Gates and became a Microsofty. I dabbled again with an iMac around 2002, but was not unduly impressed.

Now, I’m (re-)converted. My MacBook is a truly wonderful machine, OSX is fantastic and iMovie, iTunes, iDVD and others are really good and encourage creativity. Need to get into GarageBand though. Quite a number of friends have transferred to Mac recently and that’s quite encouraging. Still, six month’s after getting my iBook, still no sign of it slowing dwon. Now, with Windows on on the other hand…

]]> http://fortypacesbackwards.com/2008/10/10/macs/feed/ 0 Web Projects http://fortypacesbackwards.com/2008/10/06/first-post/ http://fortypacesbackwards.com/2008/10/06/first-post/#comments Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:19:48 +0000 http://fortypacesbackwards.com/?p=5 Ok, so I expect that this is the boring bit, so I’ll keep it short. I’m doing websites. There, I said it “I’m doing websites!’ After a couple of years of playing around with web templates and Blogger (easy peasy stuff really) , I’ve graduated to the hard (and some very hard) stuff.

WordPress is really good and I’ll be spending lots of time trying to find out what it is capable of – and just how closely matched my capabilites actually are.

Photoshop I’ve been playing around with for a few weeks and I’m happy with progress on manipulating photos, creating graphics and even animated gifs. I’ve worked my way through the excellent book ‘How to Cheat in Photoshop Elements’ byAsch and Caplin, so you will know wher I’m coming from.

And I’ve just bought Adobe Creative Suite Web, so here comes Dreamweaver, Flash, Fireworks and all that jazz. It’s a learning curve…

And, I want to know, why does the spell checker only seem to work intermittently on WordPress?

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