Mac help please

[vortex]

I'm at a loss after googling so I was hoping my friends here might be able to help.

My lovely photographer daughter wants to build a website to display her work and advertise her skill. While I know a bit about website design on Windows, I know nothing about the her McIntosh. I thought I could use a text editor(notepad on Windows) to create a HTML file by creating the text file and saving it as a .html file like it's done in windows. How do you create new .html files in the Mac environment?

I feel so helpless on her Mac. It's another world for me being a long-time Windows user.

HELP! :blush:

 

[AVB]

I believe moki is our expert on Macs

 

[ThankYouForNotSmoking]

If you want to stick with straight HTML, something like BBedit Lite (I think it's still free) will work wonders. There's also a program called 'TextEdit' in her applications folder (unless her computer is really old, then it's called SimpleText).

If what she's doing isn't so complicated, the built in web page building program on Macs, iWeb, is actually fairly powerful when used with the full iLife suite.

 

[BkCloud114]

I am still fairly new to my Mac so the best advice I can give you is to check Apple's web site for some answers.... www.apple.com

Or, send Moki a PM and ask him

 

[moki]

I'm at a loss after googling so I was hoping my friends here might be able to help.

My lovely photographer daughter wants to build a website to display her work and advertise her skill. While I know a bit about website design on Windows, I know nothing about the her McIntosh. I thought I could use a text editor(notepad on Windows) to create a HTML file by creating the text file and saving it as a .html file like it's done in windows. How do you create new .html files in the Mac environment?

I feel so helpless on her Mac. It's another world for me being a long-time Windows user.

HELP! :blush:

What you described is exactly right... you do the same exact thing on the Mac that you described on your PC. You can just use TextEdit, which can read text files, Rich Text Files, Microsoft Word files, and also it'll render HTML as well.

Launch TextEdit, choose "New Document" then type in your HTML. Then do a Save As... and specify plain text format, and away you go.

 

[vortex]

I'm at a loss after googling so I was hoping my friends here might be able to help.

My lovely photographer daughter wants to build a website to display her work and advertise her skill. While I know a bit about website design on Windows, I know nothing about the her McIntosh. I thought I could use a text editor(notepad on Windows) to create a HTML file by creating the text file and saving it as a .html file like it's done in windows. How do you create new .html files in the Mac environment?

I feel so helpless on her Mac. It's another world for me being a long-time Windows user.

HELP! :blush:

What you described is exactly right... you do the same exact thing on the Mac that you described on your PC. You can just use TextEdit, which can read text files, Rich Text Files, Microsoft Word files, and also it'll render HTML as well.

Launch TextEdit, choose "New Document" then type in your HTML. Then do a Save As... and specify plain text format, and away you go.

Thanks for the responses.

I thought I tried using textedit; but, I may have used some other, similar program. In the text editor I used it didn't give me the file type option of html. Two choices - just Word or Rich Text. So I tried changing the extension to .html and it gave me an error message saying it wasn't allowed.

Perhaps there is a folder permission or option that controls the file type options on all created files?

I will certainly look carefully at what the text editor is called and anything about folder permissions. I don't have constant access since she live 80 miles away; but, I will email her a .txt file and get her to turn it into a .html one.
Thank you, moki, for telling me that it is possible to do HTML the same way one would on Windows! I kinda figured there had to be a way. We toiled for a while before we gave up! :laugh:


Steve

 

[moki]

Nah, you're making it more complicated than it is when delving into the permissions, etc. Here's the deal.

TextEdit is a text editor. It can edit plain text (which is what HTML documents are), and it can edit RTF documents, which is a Microsoft format that is essentially text + formatting like fonts, colors, rulers, etc.

By default, new documents created in TextEdit are rich text documents, though you can change the behavior in the TextEdit->Preferences menu item. Simply choose "Make Plain Text" from the Format menu, and bam, you have plain old text.

Then do a Save As... to name the file whatever you please.

That's it... honest!

Thanks for the responses.

I thought I tried using textedit; but, I may have used some other, similar program. In the text editor I used it didn't give me the file type option of html. Two choices - just Word or Rich Text. So I tried changing the extension to .html and it gave me an error message saying it wasn't allowed.

Perhaps there is a folder permission or option that controls the file type options on all created files?

I will certainly look carefully at what the text editor is called and anything about folder permissions. I don't have constant access since she live 80 miles away; but, I will email her a .txt file and get her to turn it into a .html one.
Thank you, moki, for telling me that it is possible to do HTML the same way one would on Windows! I kinda figured there had to be a way. We toiled for a while before we gave up! :laugh:


Steve

 

[vortex]

Nah, you're making it more complicated than it is when delving into the permissions, etc. Here's the deal.

TextEdit is a text editor. It can edit plain text (which is what HTML documents are), and it can edit RTF documents, which is a Microsoft format that is essentially text + formatting like fonts, colors, rulers, etc.

By default, new documents created in TextEdit are rich text documents, though you can change the behavior in the TextEdit->Preferences menu item. Simply choose "Make Plain Text" from the Format menu, and bam, you have plain old text.

Then do a Save As... to name the file whatever you please.

That's it... honest!

AHHH! I see! By default, notepad documents are .txt and there's the difference. Gotcha

Thanks moki
Steve

 

[moki]

AHHH! I see! By default, notepad documents are .txt and there's the difference. Gotcha

Thanks moki
Steve

You can change the Preferences in TextEdit to make documents come up in plain text format by default if you like.