mac of PC

[nade93]

Hi All

I am fairly new to web developing and design. I am wanting to get a comp. which is better fro designing websites the Mac of PC and what would be the difference?

Also is there any other software apart from front page and dream weaver that i should become familiar with

thanks

[welsh]

notepad.

[Dark Dragon]

Well....Macintosh..or should I say Mac G5 are supposed to be good for design but they are poor at memory managment.....PC's are good and handle unused memory better...what really matters in my mind is the components, CPU and the memory..I ahve an AMD Athlon 64 Processor and an AOpen board...both make a great combination for me..do a bit of digging around before you buy a comp or buy parts to build one...price is little indication of quality.

While notepad is good for total hand coding...not everyone wants to do this..like myself...so I use a combination of HTML-Kit and Dreamweaver....

I have my own web pages saved and I simply copy and paste the HTML code into my new document and alter it as needed.

Be aware that notepad is the one to use for HTML compilation..you can just save the text as a .htm....wordpad probably cannot.

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[ray326]

Of course what really counts is the availability of suitable software and maybe the cost. PCs are less expensive. Period. Professional software licenses are the same on both Windows and OS/X. Macs are anecdotally easier to use than Win PCs. Win PCs are arguably better test platforms because there is a wider range of browser software for them.

Forget Frontpage.

[NogDog]

In as much as the most important browser to test on is IE6 for Win (regardless of whether we like it), you'll want a Win PC. But it could be the cheapest thing you could get hold of should you want your main machine to be a Mac.