I understand that PageMill was the first good wysiwyg web design tool (for mac at least)... in fact once Adobe GoLive supplanted it many people mourned the 'passing' of ap. Pagemill 2 wouldn't accept JavaScript coding so what I did was complete the site in PageMill and then port all the code to BBEdit and then add JS and CSS (also PM wouldn't allow meta tags but i fixed that in the BBEdit version of each site).
Actually Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 will run fine on an OS X Power PC (I think you need Tiger 10.4.11at minimum) although the official Adobe line is that you need an Intel mac for all CS4 products. Also, other CS4 products Illustrator, InDesign, Flash, Fireworks, Photoshop also will run on non-intel macs. In my experience, only cs4 Premiere Pro and cs4 After Effects need an intel mac. Better have some horsepower for those that run on ppc macs, though... my G4 quicksilver (10.4.11) is 800MHz and my G4 Powerbook (10.5.8) is 1.6GHz. I use Dreamweaver CS4 every day on my quicksilver. Apparently when Adobe found out that CS4 stuff worked fine on non-intel macs they were absolutely shocked, according to an Adobe employee who blogged about it.... although another guy said they knew that and are just covering their butts legally. Christian Wacker wrote: > On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 9:25 PM, Bill Chapman <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Re not being able to afford anything newer than a pm 6100... yeah in >> those days even second-hand macs were really expensive and i stayed with >> my 25MHz quadra 610 until about 2002 (got it in 1996) when I picked up >> my first pm (7200) for $39CDN. I only joined the os x era in jan 2008. >> All my macs are secondhand. My PM 8600 (Mac OS 8.6) is still my main >> production mac in fact. >> >> > I got my PM6100 third (or fourth) hand (My uncle gave it to me about 9 > years ago, who got it from his company when they upgraded a few years > after purchasing it new (I think)) and I haven't done much but add > more space and ram from some scrapped ones (the chips fell off the > mobo, which was quite odd) from school. > > >> In the beginning I used Adobe Pagemill for web design... it served me >> really well... even today the sites I created are working fine in the >> modern browsers and dead ones too. Nowadays I use Adobe Dreamweaver CS4. >> It's awesome, all web standards-compliant css and js. No more wrestling >> with tables in PageMill for me! >> >> > I haven't used PageMill before, but I'm looking for a OS 10.4.11 > compatible Adobe Dreamweaver product, since i'm accustomed to CS3, and > enjoy working with it (but I don't always feel like booting up my pc, > because there are too many distractions) > > >> Those non-mainstream browsers like SeaMonkey, Camino and even Opera are >> not important in the business world... most businesses still use WinXp >> and probably IE 6. Hopefully Win 7 with IE 8 will change that soon. >> Actually Firefox has about 47% market share on PC and I think IE 6 has >> dropped to about 18% which is encouraging news for web designers. But I >> can see testing in many browsers like you do if you are designing for >> non-business, social sites. >> >> > I test all those, because I know people who use them, and I have a > section that is devoted to older Mac stuff (Still not revocered from > the server crash) and I want it to work on a browser designed for > older macs. > > > -Christian > > -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
