If there's one thing I HATE about macs, it's the asinine roundabout way it likes to do things.
So I've got a how-to book about CSS telling me to save my external stylesheet with the extension of .css, but whenever I try to save it as a css file, TextEdit ABSOLUTELY REFUSES to save it that way. Oh sure, you can go to TextEdit > Preferences and have a tiny pull-down menu for if you want embedded or inline CSS included in html, but I can't find anything on actually SAVING A FILE AS A STYLESHEET.
For Windows, I used to be able to just type ".css" at the end of my file name and POOF! It's a stylesheet!
I'm really getting sick 'n tired of having to go through VMware Fusion and opening Windows on my mac just so I can WORK ON PROJECTS. It has Photoshop Elements (can't afford the latest version), Flash 8 (also can't afford update), and all the other Windows basics I've relied upon over the years... including the better-than-Mac's-snobby-chess game of SOLITAIRE! <3
The only apps I use on the mac on a regular basis is dashboard, firefox, Sketchbook Pro (Oh Mac, you are so sad; I had to install an art program on a computer boasting to be an artist's friend!), iTunes, and good ol' Fusion. :P
JakBaronKing
It's just a new way to get around things...
Macs do have different was of using the same programs as oppose to using a Windows.
But if you already know how to use CSS fairly well...the learning curve can be accomplished in as little as 2 weeks. A month give or take.
One time at school...we switched from my Freehand program to a CS3 illustrator...and I was down right frustrated.
But now that I learned how to use CS3...it's now my favorite program!
Just give it some time to just...well...."stick-to-it".
And you'll learn.
silly-stungun-millie
Yeah, I know... I was just blowing off some steam. Truth is, coding languages always go right over my head. I still need reference to figure out what goes after the html tag, and I've been trying to learn this stuff for years!
Then there are the other mandatory design job softwares to tackle. I've got to learn Illustrator, Quark XPress, re-learn Photoshop... }=X Plus my tablet's going kerput...
I haven't been a happy camper.