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Pve got checks, don’t 1? 10 MacADDICT FEB/00 Plenty of Sweet Stuff for Your Valentine! highlights Canvas 7 Trial Forget about drugstore-variety Valentine’s Day cards. Show your sweetie just how much he or she really means to you by creating your very own card or ecard. This full-featured graphics design and publishing program packs plenty of power for the pros. It comes with everything you need to create expert documents and layouts. Go ahead—illustrate those little hearts with the vector tools, import and edit your sappy photos, add kissy-cute Sprite animation for viewing on the Internet, and lay out your love in print and on the Web. Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Demo Commander? Are you there? Come in, Commander. Do you copy? We're under attack. | tepeat, we are under attack! Terrorists from around the world are moving in and we're about to lose troops if you don’t hurry up, give your orders, and take control! 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It can help you make smart decisions about expenditures so you can save up for the important things in life—like pizza, gummi bears, beer, and an iMac. The IBerg.mov BOYS AND THEIR:TOYS! iBot. iBorg. Call it what you want, but don’t call it a hunk-o’-junk or The Boys will be upset. Catch a sneak preview of the latest creation to emerge from the MacAddict Frankenstein lab. No, we're not falking about Village People Guy here! Meet the iBorg—in its infancy—destined to roam where no PC addict has gone (if they'd just hurry up. andj finish it!). @kay, boys, this thing can’f sit up on blocks in the driveway forever... Windows’ Compatible Without a doubt, Macs are the best personal computers on the market today. And now, with the G4s, the Macs are also the best personal supercomputers. What's the one thing these supercomputers still need? Compatibility and interoperability with the Windows world! Connectix Virtual PC is a software solution that brings Windows capabilities right to your Mac -- run Windows programs, access PC net- works, share files between your Mac and PC desktops and more. All on one com- puter, your Mac! Virtual PC 3.0 is OS9 compatible and is available in three versions. You can buy Virtual PC with PC-DOS, Windows 95 or 98 pre-installed. You can also run Windows NT or Linux. Have it all on one computer and have it today! To buy or for more information, go to www.connectix.com, or call 1.800.395.1824. Connectix © Copyright Connectix Corporation. Connectix and Connectix Virtual PC are tradamarks of Connectix Corporation. All other trademarks are property of their respective hodlers. Cheryl thinks the Microsoft verdict is boring, so | had to write about something else. he other day I was hunched over . St aff R a nts a craps table with a bleary-eyed, sleep-deprived David Reynolds, and I got to thinking about how 90 per- cent of the PC world is freaking boring. P, Standing in the middle of a casino with $30 or so in bets spread out across the table may seem like a strange place to g i start pondering my own personal disin- Narasu Rebbapragada_ terest in the larger technology market. As 5 er Associate Punk Rocke it happens, however, I was at the craps table trying to avoid Comdex—that mega- behemoth of a PC industry trade show— which takes place in Las Vegas every fall. ‘This was the first Comdex I (or any MacAddict staff member) had ever attended, as Comdex is not typically a Mac show. But Apple's upswing has us thinking differently (and I was feeling lucky), so si loaded David and myself onto a plane and headed to the desert. I was even a little excited about the adventure. The PC fast lane is supposed to be filled with better video games, cool MP3 players, high-tech speakers, and gadgets to stunt any budget. I figured I'd gaze upon this wonderland with awe, both jealous over not having such toys and hopeful that they'd all make their way to the Mac. Iwas wrong. I knew it from the minute I arrived at the Las Vegas Convention Center. It was crowded, filled with people in suits and jammed wall to wall with bland corporate booths. | realized that if I worked on a PC magazine, I’d be try- |—~e ing to cover all this nonsense and I'd have to wade The PC fast lane is through all manner of ridiculous software. I'd be - ; the one my readers expected to scrutinize all the Supposer 3 ae ‘: a Wstenilige ai ‘ different accounting programs, I’d be the guy that Deller video games, Coo would have to test 50 different business manage- MP3 players, high-tech ment apps in order to find out what features would speakers, and gadgets as ae which people. Sure, ar eae a ictional, even necessary—bui they're no Los WiguanyRouas and there are 10,000 of them. To make things worse, even the cool stuff for the PC gets beaten to death with repetition, Take $10,000 liquid plasma displays—cool, right? Not after you've seen 50 in 10 minutes, all of which look almost identical, and you realize that no one you've ever met could afford one of them. You'd really gag if you could see the unfortunate impact the iMac has had on the PC industry. One of the worst offenders came in the form of a hideous pink translucent casing you can strap onto your beige PC in a pathetic attempt to be trendy. Bad colors in ever-worse plas- tics were everywhere. I now understand why PC people curse the iMac. The longer I strolled the convention floor, the happier I was that I work at MacAddict. We get to cover just cool stuff. The Mac generally has at least one decent program you can use for things you need to do (like taxes), but it also gets soft should all the genuinely exciting apps—design tools, Web development apps, professional © of Gates in his pi video and audio software. Sure, the occasional MP3 player and the Mac games i arsenal lag behind, but my new Rio 500 (see Reviews, this issue, p58) is humming along just fine, and I get plenty of diverse gaming from my PlayStation and Nintendo 64, The Mac pond may be way smaller, but thanks to its simplicity and its appeal to - aus! Wy Susan creative people, by comparison our pond is filled with champagne. a 12 MacADDICT FEB/OO > May the road rise up to meet you. May the wind be at your back. May your Internet dial-up number never be busy. Easy set-up. Fast connections. A reliable network. And a support staff so helpful our customers rave about us. It comes down to this: We believe getting on the net should be a simple, fun experience. And we do everything we can to make it that way. Call 1-888-MSPRING or visit us at www.mindspring.com and get 3 months for the price of 1. Hurry, offer expires 2/29/00! #1 in Customer Satisfaction Among the Largest National Internet Service Providers ew You’d be happier using MindSpring INTERNET SERVICES ‘ao]AJas youlaqur [2u012eH) 69b°E woiz sesuodses uo paseg fom3s. ‘ADIs. sianod “0°t “9430 T-v04-¢ 40s Mdde pe uae @ letters Okay, okay, just calm down now—everything is going to be all right. This Month WRITE TO US: MacAddict, 150 North Hill Dr, Brisbane, CA 94005, or email to letters@macaddict.com. FOR CD PROBLEMS: Go to bitp:// support.imaginemedia.com. FOR SUBSCRIPTION QUERIES: Calll (toll-free) 888-771-6222. He Ran OFF witH MaxINE What happened? I receive my December MacAddict, rip it open and turn directly to page 6—only to find that he’s not there! Max is gone! How can I live without his quirky quotes, his luscious locutions, his unbeliev- able iterations? It’s a sad day. Because of this error you must send me—never mind, that’s getting a touch trite—Jor MARTIN Whatever you do, don’t examine the cover too closely.-—RC RECENTLY SIGHTED-© Oh no! I’m looking at my lovely December issue of MacAddict, when I realize some- thing—no Max?! What happened to the beloved little mascot? Was it a delayed reac- tion to being crushed by an iBook in the October issue? Could it be? Is Max (sob) gone? If he really is gone (sob), please tell me (sniffle) so that I can call all my MacAddict friends and (sob) tell them the horrible news. Tm gonna miss you, Max! I better go, the key- board isn’t built to stand up to this many tears..—Davp Richmond Imagine my shock when, after thoroughly examining the December issue, I discover... Max is missing from the front cover! Aaahhh!! ; S He's also not in his little box underneath the 14 MacADDICT FEB/0O editorial credits! What has happened to our darling little Max? Have PC zealots cap- tured Adam?! Are we doomed to live with- ‘out Max's wit on the front cover for eter- Be aemiane campaign to save Max .could you guys loan me a Awww.savemax.com? Happy itoshing!—Jonaruan CLyDON You Do Tat Ijust watched the staff video on the December CD-ROM. Your fabulous art director David was babbling something about 51/,-inch floppy disks for his Apple Ic. Uh...okay, sure, } bothers me is that he’s an art director, and artsy people some- times miss these things, but those are 54/,- inch floppies! I'm sure I could heat a few up and stretch them out into \ 5¥yinch disks, but 3%, work so well (or fit in the Ic’s drivel). What G nobody caught him! Oh well, I'll just retreat to my little world now. —Sractre GADGET At Least SHE Doesn’t Make Up Terms Like “FatTLOSERBUNNY” You hired a vicious duck killer as your man- aging editor? What FatLoserBunny chose this crackpot? What does the Animal Rights Foundation have to say? Who is in charge there? You guys should really check the back- ground of your applicants. If a cute little duck gets smashed, what's gonna happen to Prison Guy? @ (Sorry—all hail edi- (5 tor Capps!) Wait, maybe _f{ she has a sick, twisted rk ILLUSTRATIONS BY DAVID “I'M LIVING IT, BUT I'M NOT LOVING IT" ROSS. 2 wheels you guys can use on the cover—I mean, she is pretty warped. Hire me as your new managing editor. I promise not to run over any ducks (and if 1 did, I would feel really bad...not laugh!). I only ask for food, water, a working bathroom, and a fully expanded PowerMac G4 tower with a 24inch Apple Cinema Screen. Fire the cruel duck killer!—Narnante, We Lert Our ORANGE, Too Okay, well, it looks like you flubbed again. In “Beny Meeny Miny iMac” (Dec/99, p45), you claim that the graphite iMac is the “sixth— yes, sixth—color.” You guys really should go back to grade school and learn to count. As every Mac addict knows, Bondi blue was its own distinct color, plus blueberry, tangerine, grape, lime, strawberry, and now graphite. The grand total is seven, Get it right —Mixr OLp ScHooL Check this out! I was recently looking through my garage and found some old comic books. Being a Mac user, I noticed this ad on the back of an old comic book from 1985. Check out the specs on this baby. I have one question: What the heck is an “extended 80 column card?” I wonder if Ican put one in my G3.—Curis WiEMER APPLE® Ile COMPUTER SYSTEM. With 128k memory. Includes 12” monitor, extended 80 column card, modem, printer, mouse and hand controls for games. WE WONDER what it would look like in tin foil. WHATEVER HAPPENED To WirED MaGaAzINeE, Anyway? Can you believe the nerve of these people? I certainly can't. Wired magazine has labeled “the Apple religion” as one of the things the 20th century should leave behind! They do some pretty nasty Mac addict bashing and pretty much manage to tick me off. Screw them! As long as I have anything to say about it, there'll be no giving up on the Mac for me! — Jon ZERATSKY ADVERTISING CHALLENGED I accepted the challenge on the bottom of your December cover. “What challenge?” you ask. The “Our Biggest Issue Ever!!!” challenge. My rules for this game are simple: 1. Survey all Mac-related magazines. 2. Remove all pages that have only adver- tisements on both sides. 3. Leave in any page that has staff- produced information on one or both sides (even if that area is only a couple of inches wide). The exception to that rule is subscription order forms. Those are fair game for removal because these are my rules. Remember? 4. Compare what is left of the magazine with a same-issue magazine that has not under- gone surgery for removal of excess pages. Why do I rip out these “ads only” pages? Because I don’t find advertising educates me as much as real information. It also reduces the weight and size of the magazine for storage purposes. Every month MacAddict seems to win the Most-Pages-Left-After-I-Rip-Out-the- Excess Award. Perhaps your next issue should proclaim on the cover: “Adver- tisers: Your money is not wasted in our magazine, because people don’t throw away your ads.” Congratulations, MacAddict staff, you are doing something right—intentionally or not —Barsara Trrswort SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE Hello. Here’s a greeting from Holland. It’s the first time I got your magazine. Some hard times reading the English, but one thing isn’t hard...enjoying the music from your CD!—Tymo PEL Git AMELIO’s Answers WERE THE SAME I put up one question per day at my locker and have people guess the answer. If the person gets it right, they get a paper iMac. One day I put together a bunch of questions and let people try to win an iMac poster. I just had to share one person’s response: Q: True or false? The company Macintosh made the iMac. ‘A: Maybe. Q: Fillin the blank: Wire is the best connection standard for digital cameras and hard drives. A: The. Q: Name nine of the most important fea- tures in Mac 0S 9. A: Blue eyes, blond hair, dimple on left but- tocks, freckles, wears contacts, 25-inch waist, Harley Davidson tattoo, mole on upper lip, missing left earlobe. Q: True or false? MP3 files can be played on a portable player compatible with the Mac. S : True, but you can also use a porta-potty instead of a portable player. ); What relationship does Pixar Entertain- ment have with the Mac? Great aunt on my sister’s side of the family, once removed. : Name the different versions of iMacs and the colors associated with each version. A: Version: Sahara desert. Color: dusty sand, Version: the mighty Pacific. Color: true blue, just like you. Version: black hole. Color: white pastel. : What's the speediest processor known to be in a Mac? RJ in his car (RJ is a friend of ours). : Name two connections that the U.S. Army has with the Mac. Plug, socket. She doesn’t have a preference for PC or Mac, she doesn’t own a computer, and she doesn’t know enough about computers to make fun of Apple. She was just trying to be creative. I think I’m going to give her a Think Different poster —SrepHen Oo Fr & Fr OCF 0 We Hate It WHEN THat HAPPENS I don’t know if you've seen this one before, but my iMac/266 offered up this error mes- sage when it apparently bailed out of a SETI@Home session this morning. Kinda reminded me of the Cheshire Cat—it faded away until just the, uh...dialog box?... remained.—Dave CROCKETT not be found. An unexpected error occurred, because it COUSIN IT sure can be elusive. AreENn’t You GENEROUS Heya. I'm a huge fan of Macdddict, and 1 also have the pleasure of working for a pro- Mac company. It’s these two things that cause me to write this. In the latest issue (“Get Info,” Dec/99, p26) under the little ADB tag in the chart, you list the company as “Griffin Technologies.” Well—and I know it’s a small mistake—the name of the company is Griffin Technology. I wouldn’t have caught it, if I didn’t work for ’em (actually, my dad is the one who designed the company’s logo). I'll forgive you if you do an entire article about Griffin—I can provide an interview FEB/OO MacADDICT 15 with a hard-working employee who makes and packages the products. He’s a very intel- ligent, handsome devil, and I'm sure he could take some time out of his busy sched- ule to talk with you.—EVuA Fuzzy-Wuzzy Was an iMac? Come on! In your most recent issue, your staff members came up with all kinds of uncreative stuff for the next iMac. The next iMac should be fuzzy! That's right, with fur! Everyone says the iMac is cute. And what comes after cute? Cuddly! Everyone should have a Mac they can nuzzle their face into if they are feeling a little bad. Why are cats so successful? They are fuzzy and they purr. Make a computer with fur, and you have all the attractive qualities of a cat. Plus, the static from the monitor would do neat things to all that fuzz... Of course, Apple might have a little trouble reconciling fuzzy with blueberry. —Durex DoHLER Sounps Goon! Hello, fellow Mac addicts! A while back, after Ambrosia Software released Snapz Pro 2, 1 was trying to convert a sound file. Absolutely nothing I tried could convert this format to AIFE I was stumped and went on with my normal daily routine, flaming PC news groups and so forth. One day, out of sheer boredom, I started fool- ing around with Snapz Pro 2’s movie recording capabilities. Then I noticed that it could record Mac audio in the movie! So Iwas thinking, what if] play this sound file while Snapz Pro records a movie? I played the sound file while recording, saved only the audio track, and boom. There it was, in AIFF format. Snapz Pro 2 is the u/timate sound conversion utility. If you can play it, you can convert it!—Dave Lesovoy Do You BELIEVE IN ARRANGED MarriaGEs? With all due respect to Wysmar Clealand (Letters, Dec/99, p14), I have him and his daughter named Claris beat. I named my firstborn Mackeegan Tosh Songer. Really! Tosh is an old family name that my wife liked, but she refused to let me name him Macin Tosh. She came up with MacKeegan, and I felt that was close enough. —Mark ANTHONY SoNGER 16 MacADDICT FeB/00 How Divine! I saw on the Web site that you would like to see some nativity scenes. Well, after having alittle Photoshop fun, I give you two. Hope you enjoy them. Praise Steve Jobs —Jack BARKER HOLY iMac! Wuat Do You Do?! Irecenily read your test “Are You Becoming a Mac Addict?” (Get Info, Dec/99, p26). 1 scored a 35, thus specifying a terminal case of Mac addiction. I thought your test was good but needed some additions. Here are a few I came up with myself; 1. In a formal situation, such as school or work, when you are supposed to sign your name, you: A. Sign your name. B. Putan “i” at the beginning of your name. C. Put an “i” at the beginning of your name and stick weird letters in random areas of the word. 2. You are forced to use a Windows PC for ‘one reason or another. You: A. Try to live with it, B. Add utilities that make it look and act more like a Macintosh. C. Write a Mac OS emulator from raw assembly code. 3, A stupid Windows bigot walks up to you and says that Macs suck. You: A. Start to cry. B. Argue with him using speech riddled with complicated technical terms in an attempt to make him see the “good side” of computing. . Argue with him...and win. 4, You will only date someone if he or she: A. Is sweet. B. Shares your addiction to the Mac OS. €. Can code in Hex and manipulate Finder code using only a copy of ResEdit. 5. You believe the most important event that ever happened is: A. The fall of the Berlin Wall or something else not included in answers B or C. B, The release of the Macintosh in 1984. C. The invention of the ModalDialog A-Trap. I just thought you might enjoy reading my additions to your test for Mac addiction. —Pa84r Can You Frac PEOPLE? Wochoo, I’m in MacAddict! Believe it or not, | didn’t write you just to say that! I also have a valid comment. It disturbs me that every time you peo- ple publish an article about multiplayer games for the Mac, you never mention Avara by Ambrosia Software (http://www .ambrosiasw.com). Granted, Avara doesn’t render tex- tures, 3D particle effects, or clouds, but I would still say it is one of the best multi- user 3D games for the Macintosh. And best of all, it's shareware! Avara can run on the slower modems most of us still have, and it runs fine on older computers. With that said, send me a G4 so I can play Quake II.—Anprew Cantino The Seven Deadly Macintosh Sins: I S- Software Conflicts Hardware Problems Memory Problems Network Problems Viruses Damaged Software Disk Damage Salvation: When good Macs go bad and fall from grace, it’s good to know there’s help nearby. Salvation is only a mouse- click away with the new TechTool Pro 3. Now featuring virus protection and conflict detection, ‘TechTool Pro is the only program you need to help abolish the evil forces that have possessed your Macintosh. TechTool Pro 3 checks more aspects of your Macintosh than any other utility available. Period. Besides repairing and recovering damaged drives, eradicating viruses and catching the occasional software conflict; you can also test all those other critical parts of your system that other utilities simply ignore, Like RAM, logic board components, floppy drives, scanners, modems, internet connections and so much more. 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So if Macintosh troubles are turning your life into a living Hades, check out the tool of the trade: TechTool Pro. After all, you have the most powerful computer in the world. Shouldn't you be using the most powerful utility? Purchase TechTool Pro 2 now and receive a free upgrade to TechTool Pro 3 when it ships in Q1 2000! See us at MacWorld Expo 2000 in San Francisco. Booth 3334 MicroMat Inc. 800-829-6227 reeey Mii sass FAX: 707-566-3871 2 ag B89 info@micromat.com Fix different: ee | Te ee ee Oe ee ee ee ee Ne Ter www.micromat.com t won't All the news th: Be Our Valentine f | Four people who rock our world ith love in the air vent development of competitive and Valentine's Day software. Possible punishmenis just around the include carving up Microsoft into corner, our separate business units and thoughts turn to those people Cp Ss making Windows APIs pub- who most warranted our Sree wa AS; lic—thus enabling anyone to affection this year. Last year SLES make their own Windows- that biggest of all teddy-bear iCEQs, Steve Jobs, won our hearts with his winning persona and chic black turtleneck. This year we've gotten over our school-age crush and moved on to some folks who really gave Mac addicts something to swoon about. Jon Rubinstein, senior vice president of Hardware Design, Apple Computer It’s always tempiing to let Jobs hog the credit for the great products cranking out of Apple, but we're not falling for it this year. Rather than feed Steve's megalomania, we decid- ed to honor Jon Rubinstein—the man responsible for Apple hard- ware—as our Valentine, Even with the releases of QuickTime 4, OS 9, and Final Cut Pro, hardware easily “= outpaced software in Cupertino this past year, bringing into our eager hands the G4, the new iMacs, the AirPort Base Station, and yes, even that purse known as the iBook. So even though he stole Nikki's cab at Mac- world New York, we're still keeping a special place in our heart for of Jon R. US. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson While we don’t know a whole lot about Judge Jackson personally, we do know he gave Microsoft a pounding in his findings of fact for its antitrust trial. Judge Jackson agreed that Microsoft owns a monopoly on operating systems, and forcefully stated that it abused its monopoly by raising the Windows price tag for uncooperative hardware manufactur- ers and leveraging access to its APIs to pre- 18 MacADDICT FEB/00 compatible operating sys- tem—but it'll likely be years Jackson has proved that high-priced lawyers and false sentiments can’t snow him. Finally, Microsoft's predatory behavior gets the recognition it deserves. Jonathan Ive, vice president of Industrial Design, Apple Computer Steve Jobs didn’t come up with the case designs that made the PC industry see bright-colored and transparent plastic potential in every cord, case, and caddy. It was the Apple industrial design team that gave the iMac and iBook their candy coats, and Jonathan Ive is the man in charge. His use of plastics has spawned more imita- tions than a Dana Carvey tribute banquet. In the past year alone, he has given us six iMac colors (seven total, including Bondi Blue the year before last), the Book’s toilet-seat shape, the elegant G3 and G4 cases, and the crazy-looking AirPort hub. Thanks for your hard work, Jonathan— ‘won't you be our Valentine? John Carmack, cofounder, owner, and lead programmer, id Software ‘The MacAddict offices have become « hell- pit of nonproductivity thanks mostly to Car- mack’s decision to bring Quake I] Arena to all possible operating systems, including the Mac OS. Sure, the game employs cutting- edge 3D shooting technology and it’s really before the final outcome, At least. Our Un-Valentines s W ed like to say that everyone in the Mac community has con- tributed to The Cause this year, but we suspect that a few individuals have actually been working against us. Here's our list of the people we loved to hate this year: Sierra Studios and Valve Software They canceled Half-Life. We're I pissed. Phil Schiller, vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing, Apple Computer Apple's most patronizing VP is bursting with cheesy marketing slogan goodne: Quark Paranoid and arrogant—like Steve Jobs without the charm—Quark is still a difficult company with a great product. Future Power and Daewoo This duo’s E-Power personal com- puter is the more blatant and flimsy of the two iMac rip-offs. Luckily Apple stopped them dead in their tracks. fun, but that’s not why we've chosen to make John Carmack our Valentine. This self- taught programming wiz’s real contribution is his public support of Apple. Having the famously shy yet blunt-spoken Carmack back the Mac as a games platform onstage at Macworld Expo lent a much-needed credibility to Mac gaming. We also applaud Carmack for aggressively supporting alter- natives to the Windows hegemony—RC ILLUSTRATIONS BY DAVID “BROKEN HEARTED" ROSS ILLUSTRATION BY MIKE CRESSY QuickTime Goes Live | New versions of QuickTime and its server previewed at conference nan effort to build momentum for QuickTime, Apple hosted the first- ever QuickTime Live conference in Los Angeles last November. Frank Casano- va, Apple's QuickTime product manager, said that the conference was meant to bring together successful QuickTime authors to talk to each other and to the world at large, and to showcase great QuickTime products. Thousands attended the convention, includ- ing representatives from ESPN, HBO, Rolling Stone, CNN, and even the Weather Channel. During the conference, Apple previewed QuickTime 4.1 and QuickTime Streaming Server 2. QuickTime 4.1 will boast a few new features, including seamless ad insertion (a relief for all of you who miss seeing advertisements while watching QuickTime) and support for AppleScript support, better firewalls, and SMIL (Synchronized Multimedia Integrat- ed Language). Based in XML, SMIL is the WSC standard that lets Webmasters divide multimedia into separate streams, sending each independently to the receiver's computer and having them resynchronized there. For example, you could send an audio stream, a text stream, and a video stream separately, and reassemble . them in a single presentation using SMIL. New features in QuickTime Streaming Server 2 include password protection (to create private broadcasts), a new plug-in architecture, and support for third-party analysis tools. No shipping schedule for the new products was announced. ows Reborn lation program another chance The few SofiWindows users who haven't jumped ship to Connectix’s Virtual PC (Con- nectix believes that program's share of the Windows emulation market is over 90 per- cent) will be cheered to know their platform has just gotten a new lease on life. FWB Soft- ware (http:/Avwwéwb .com) bought Soft- Windows and RealPC (SoftWindows’ DOs- based sibling) as the first step in its strategy to move beyond is tadtional role as the Ptineipal source of Macintosh drivers fo1 hard drives and CD-ROMs, FWB is working — hard to repair the problems ayear ofneglect has caused, and hopes to have aviable con- tender for Virtual PC’s throne on the market — During the conference, CNN and Apple also announced that CNN would use QuickTime 4 to deliver some of its streaming content. A while back, CNN snubbed QuickTime in favor of Real Player technology. When asked whether Apple would be changing the brushed-metal interface of QuickTime Player, Casanova replied that the reason Apple originally gave the inter- face a brushed-metal appearance was to separate QuickTime, the system-enabling technology, from QuickTime, the product. He added that we should be noticing this brushed-metal look and feel across Apple's digital video and media products (includ- ing, presumably, Final Cut Pro and Sher- lock 2). We took this as an unfortunate “no.” Phil Schiller, Apple's marketing vice president, talked about QuickTime’s suc- cess, Final Cut Pro, and a multitude of other QuickTime-related goodies—including a megabit-streaming version of a Toy Story if video—during his keynote address at the conference. The best part of the keynote was unscripted, however. When a demo failed, Schiller was reported to have used some choice Anglo-Saxon expletives, think- ing he was offline, He wasn't, and the tens of thousands of virtual attendees listening via the Webcast experienced a genuine unrehearsed Phil Schiller moment—DR FEB/OO MacADDICT 19 ojur 306 Se < i Cd tou) 20 MacADDICT FEB/00 Shareware Pick of the Month Sherlock fl Winzap SHAREWARE FEE: Free URL: http://www.teamdraw. com/raul/stuff/stuff2.3.html (SOC EICICI Ica REQUIREMENTS: Sherlock 2 BOR BOOS oe (comes with Mac 0S 9) ay Tsnerote i} he brushed-metal chan- nel virus may have moved from the QuickTime I ORVESCICH IAC IES (o{als(2 Se leia ae Player to infect Sherlock 2, but shareware author Raul G0 FROM THE BRUSHED-METAL horror at the top to the Gutierrez isn’t having any of more calming, jamiliar window on the bottom with Raul’s it, Instead, he wrote the nifty Sherlock 1! Winzap utility, The plethora of search channels utility Sherlock If Winzap, also came from Raul’s Web site, which at least returns Sher- lock’s look to some semblance of a Mac application by adding a proper window frame—complete with title bar, zoom box, and window shade. Sherlock II Win- zap only works on unmodified copies of Sherlock 2, but it does provide the new search engine with a more classic—and much simpler—look. The question now is, can he do the same thing for Quick- Time?—DR USB Marches On | New release cleans up support for generic adapter cards, storage devices Ppple’s hyperkinetic USB team has been releasing new drivers at a furi- ous clip. When we first reported on their efforts only three months ago (see “USB Madness,” Nov/99 pg.28), Apple was putting the finishing touches on version 1.3 of its driver. They've now bumped the version number up again—to 1.3.5—and reamed out a bunch-o-bugs. The new driver fixes some bugs in the generic driver for storage devices, which should make ail those USB-based floppy replacements work just a little bit bet- ter. Apple's also reamed cut their Adapter Card Support pack- age, so OS 9 users without USB ports can take advantage of Apple’s support of generic PCI or CardBus USB cards (the previous generic drivers weren’t Mac OS 9 compatible). This support should let any correctly-built card that adds USB slots to your computer just work, without any need for Mac-specif- ic drivers. There are certain to be exceptions (a variety of problems were immediately reported to Ted Landau’s MacFixit site, http://www.macfixit.com), but the majority of 3rd party cards should now be supported. The buzzword to check for is “QHC! compliant”— nonstandard cards will still be nothing \ more than inert A lumps of plastic | and solder, | draining power § from your com- puter without doing any good at all.—IS New for the Mac DREAMWEAVER 3 FIREWORKS 3 STUDIO (Macromedia, $399, hittp://www.macromedia.com) Dreamweaver 3 Fireworks 3 Studio combines Macromedia’s dynamic Web duo into one package, offering new versions of Dreamweaver, the popular Web authoring software, and Fireworks, the company's Web graph- ics software, Among Dreamweaver 3's new skills are the ability to opti- mize and format Microsoft Word con- tent and store information about a Web page in Design Notes. You can also customize Dreamweaver using JavaScript, HTML, and XML. Fire- works 3 retains the layers and text of imported Photoshop files, and exports to a number of Web formats, including Flash. Of course, the revised Fire- works integrates more smoothly with Dreamweaver. You can still purchase both programs separately. HARMAN KARDON iSUB SUBWOOFER (Harman Multimedia, $29, hittp://www.apple.com) Designed exclusively for Apple by Har- man Multimedia, the iSub is a 6-inch subwoofer with a 20-watt amplifier that plugs right into your iMac’s USB port, Jending much-needed bass to your gameplay and DV movie-watching. The futuristic, translucent subwoofer works only on new iMacs with Mac OS 9, and is sold through the Apple Store and Apple-authorized resellers. GARRARA (MelaCreations, $399, hitp://www.metacreations.com) The wild-eyed folks at MetaCreations have combined Ray Dream Studio, Infi- ni-D, and some all-new goodies to intro- duce Carrara 1.0—a 3D-modeling, rer dering, animation, and special effects application for Web and print media. Designed for users at all levels, Carrara includes a new, simplified interface, a range of renderers, Metastream support for Web production, and Open GL sup- port for 3D hardware accelerators.—NR And the iMac Goes To... | Chicago Bears fan Adam Jones gots the love! Il right, okay, we promised we'd announce the winner of our “Show Your Love” contest in the Janu- ary 2000 issue, and we promised that the lucky winner would get a new blue- berry iMac—and none of it happened. We know—quit with the letters already. As it turns out, we were still flooded with entries when the January issue rolled through, so we put it off a month. But now it’s February, and we have a winnah! Congratulations go to Chicago Bears superfan Adam Jones for show- ing—beyond a shadow of a doubt—his love for his favorite sports team. According to Adam, his father hes been a Bears season ticket holder for 23 years, and once Adam even got to kick a field goal during a game halftime. The duo's collection contains over 70 footballs, 15 jer- seys, 12 helmets, and hundreds of pictures. (Adam made no comment as to what Mom thinks of the Bears shrine room). For proving his fanaticism in this Quick- Time VR panorama a friend constructed (on a Mac, of course), Adam wins an iMac DV courtesy of Aspyr Media, and a complete suite of Aspyr games including Madden 2000 and Tomb Raider III. We also recognize our five runners-up, who will receive copies of Madden 2000, also cour- tesy of Aspyr Media. These include Jeremy Herrman, whose bedroom is a bizarre mix of Apple and Charlotte Homets parapherna- lia; Susan Carver, a USC fan expecting a new bouncing baby Trojan any time now; Bill Dorr, our favorite pool-shreddin’ 75- year-old; Reymond Pagé, who can't stop Michael Jordan even in his fantasies; and Julie Sloat, who we think likes the Min- nesota Twins, but we're not sure. 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The ROMs in 604-based wwwinewertech.com), XLR8 (hitp:/Avww Macs don’t keep G4s with upgrade cards -xlr8.com), Sonnet Technologies (http:// from accessing hardware when they right in this speedup skirmish? When it www.sonnett.com), and PowerLogix (http:// shouldn't, potentially leading to serious comes to bus speeds, PowerLogix’s demon- www.powerlogix.com), have discovered a crashes. Newer fixed the problem by adding stration is convincing—even if Newer were new use for white papers: They're using additional hardware to its G4 upgrade card, completely correct, users could set cards them as weapons in an unusually nasty war while the other companies wrote software with bus speeds at their optimal value. in the for the processor upgrade market. patches instead. Newer’s argument that users _ latter battle, though, Newer has a point. In ‘Newer started the fracas on November 14 can delete software patches during PRAM our testing of an XLRS G4 upgrade card, we with a white paper claiming that developers zaps immediately following startup drew an encountered the profound system instability should use only a single optimal bus speed angry reply from PowerLogix. PowerLogix at one would expect from Speculative Process- for G3 or G4 upgrades. The paper touted the first claimed that PRAM zaps couldn't remove ing problems (we found no reference to a company's own solution, in which the _ its software fixes—an incorrect claim. Pow- boot floppy in XIR8's documentation or upgrade card autosets the bus speed to max- _erLogix quickly retracted this argument, sim- materials). Apple engineers we queried imize memory access speed, over Power- _ ply touting its solution as simpler and less were equally dubious of software solutions, Logix’s solution, which allows the user to expensive than Newer’s. PowerlLogix closed pointing out that it’s difficult to keep other select from a range of bus speeds. Power- _ its paper by accusing Newer of trying to “con- companies from inadvertently writing over Logix responded the next day, claiming that fuse the market until their product [was] one patch with another, As long as users benchmarks show that an increase in bus available.” (Newer’s G4 card went to market _keep the potential problem in mind, the soft- speed can increase system performance even ater than either PowerLogix’s or XLR8’s.) _ ware patch should work fine—but hang on if the “optimum” speed is passed. Both Sonnet and XLR8 responded less aggres- _to your boot floppy—iS ILWUSTRATION BY DAVID “DUMMY ROSS. 22 MacADDICT FEB/00 ILLUSTRATIONS BY DAVID “DOHt" ROSS The Other Logos Redesigns that didn’t quite make the cut F Tom the first screams of anguish that arose when Max left the cover, our gradual redesign has been drawing cheers, protests, MAC ADDICT and debate. Here are some redesigned logos we sensibly decided not to use—thereby avert- ing possible catastrophe.—/S KY, AND CLYDE ARE NE To GET for THE Hardware Hack from Hell eee editors and their exploding PowerBooks t started innocuously enough—the tiny latch that holds the door of one of the PowerBook G3s in our office jammed, preventing us from keeping the door shut. Most people would have either ignored the problem or sent the Power- Book off to an Apple dealer, but executive editor Dave Reynolds isn’t most people. Trusty Torx screwdriver in hand, Dave promptly began bur- rowing deep into the bowels of his PowerBook. After all, that latch needed fixing; besides, all that Soy Sauce wasn’t getting #tse/f out of the machine. Days later, Dave hit bottom (literally—he reached the piece of metal at the bottom of the = PowerBook). With a triumphant yell, he flipped the jammed latch back into place and reassem- bled his PowerBook. It started up, began to boot, then crashed horribly. 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Something’s Missing Zero insertion force (ZIF) Chips typically have one pin missing so that you Can't insert them the wrong way, This keeps you from doing some serious damage when you place one of these things. 24 MacADDICT FEB/0O Seal of Approval You see it here—a circled M that looks like something out of the ‘50s means that Motorola gave its seal of approval to this particular G4. | Tin Soldiers All of these pins connect the G4 to your Mac’s motherboard. The pins plug into the socket, and away you go! Down the Backside One of the features that makes the G3 and G4 chips so fast is the backside cache, a chunk of specialized high-speed memory that connects directly to the processor. This memory makes sure the chip always has something to do. Brains! The chip itself: The G4 {s situated under this metallic square. Heat generated from the chip goes out through the square and into the heat sink, which sits on top of the chip. Silver Nugget It's solder. 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You made it to work $=: today—an accomplishment in itself—and you see the dreaded sticky note on the center of your monitor. Yes, it’s every bit as bad as you imagined—it’s from your boss, who makes it in even earlier than you do, and it has just two words written on it. No, not “You're fired," although that might be a relief. Instead, it says “See me” in your boss's easily misread script. You still have time for a cup of coffee before going into the lion's den, so you stop by the BrewMaster on your way and pick up 26 MacADDICT FEB/OO a cup of joe. As you'te about to discover, that's a good move—you'll need it. Upon entering the mahogany-lined office, you hear words you never expected, and when their meaning sinks in, so does a sense of dread: “We need our Web site up by tomorrow at 9 am., and you've been selected to put it together.” Ulp And what's been done so far? Well, the domain name's registered through Register .com (http://www.register.com) and it has trick- led into the DNS—so when your boss types in the URL tomorrow at 9:01 a.m., the browser by David Reynolds will point to the right IP address, whether or not there’s a Web site to display. Otherwise, nothing’s been done. Nothing. “No problem,” you say, contemplating how you're going to fake your own death. But on your way back to your cubicle, a funny thing happens. Your conscience kicks in— at least that’s what you've taken to calling that little voice you keep hearing in your head—and says that you have a duty to per- form. Although you only have 24 hours, you will get that Web site up and running, and it'll kick butt. Lay the Foundation © 1) mt a v$ ating a Web site, but architecture can make or break a site. If you make a mistake here, T he morning hours go easily, but that’s no surprise. Planning is one of the best parts of cre- you'll face a mountain of trouble: Visitors will get lost on your site and never return; adding or removing sections will turn into an ordeal; and information architecture's blue furies will visit your email in-box, leaving an unpleasant residue of hate mail PHASE ONE: Start at the Top Before you even think about building HTML files or snazzy Web graphics, you’d better know what your site should do, who's going to visit it, and what features it will have. Write down the answers to each of these items, show them to someone else, get some opin- ions, and then revisit them. When you're satis- fied, these answers will serve as a guide for your site’s design. + What are your site’s goals? What do you want it to do? What is it for? Once you answer this question, the rest will fall into place more easily. Be as specific as possible. + Who will be visiting your site? Who are they? What do they want? Always know your audience and anticipate its diverse needs. Some users will want to browse, others will be looking for specific information. Describe three or four of the most common kinds of folks you expect your site to draw, and pay attention to what they need. + What features will your site have? Make a list of your Web site’s features. You'll likely want an index page and some content, but you may also want high-end functions such as a site map and a search engine. List all of the features you expect your site to provide—this list must mesh well with your tar- geted audience's needs. * What are similar sites doing? Know your competition. Visit some similar sites, see what you like about them, and go them one better. PHASE TWO: Sketch Out Your Site De: Now it’s time to get the pencil and paper out. You're going to create a block diagram of your site that'll look something like a genealogy dia- jee gram—mostly squares with lines connecting them. At the top will be the home page, below that will be the areas to which it links. For some sites, this second level will be just a couple of squares; for others, it may be eight or nine. Either way, it represents your content. Keep creating blocks for each level until you've covered every- thing that's happening on your Web site. By sketching out a block diagram of your Web site, you'll accomplish two things: First, you'll optimize your site's content; sec- ond, you'll com- plete a rudimentary site map-a valuable navigation aid. PHASE THREE Make an Inventory List Now that you have a rough idea of what your site will look like (from a conceptual stand- point), list all the items you'll need to assemble it, This list should fit nicely into these two cate- gories (but feel free to make your own): + Content inventory—All of the articles and pictures that actually appear as part of the content, Put these under the various areas you created in phase two. + Collateral inventory—All of the items that aren't content but will appear on the site, such as a logo, navigation graphics, back- grounds, and so on. Congratulations! You now have a blueprint and a parts list. One final note: As you're going through these steps, think about how your vis- itors will navigate your site. It's often a good idea to provide several ways to get to the same page, such as a navigation bar, a search engine, or a site map. Must-Visit Sites Web Developer’s Journal hitp://www.webdeveloper.com Part of the vast Internet.com site (man, what a snag on a domain name) the Web Developer's Journal has stylish content with a genuine personality—a refreshing change from the plain-vanilla sites out there that suffer from being too inoffen- sive. Plus the site features some killer content, covering everything from beginner topics to propeller- head material. FreeCode http://www.freecode.com A site for the more hard-core among the Webmasterly, FreeCode features lots of—you guessed it— free Perl scripts, C/C++ code, JavaScript, and that other scripting language, Visual Basic. While FreeCode is short on reference material, it's way long ‘on useful downloadable goodies. The site does feature an integrated discussion board for commentary and help. 24 hrs Builder.com http://www.builder.com CNet’s Builder.com features expert advice for Webmasters, critiques, and helpful downloads—all wrapped up in an easy- to-navigate site. Builder.com dishes out advice on topics including Web-page building and careers. Perl.com http://www.perl.com Specific to Perl, this site is packed with material and downloads that will have you implementing great Perl scripts on your Web site in seconds flat. This site features everything you want to know about Perl—whether it’s the Mac, Unix, or PC variety. w.perlicom va ORELY. DO YOU NEED TO KNOW HTML? If you want to make a good Web site, you'll need to learn HMTL. Graphical Web creation applications have gotten much better, but they're still not up to the level of a human being who knows how to code. However, it's not as tough as you might think, To help you out, we've included a program called HTML Tag Companion on our CD. This AppleGuide file will work with just about any application, and it has exhaustive information about HTML tags. If that’s not your cup of tea, you can check out some of the 15 sites we've listed in this article—many have excellent HTML learning materials and cheat sheets. 28 MacADDICT FEB/00 1c Building the Skeleton ‘ us ‘ow that your site has a backbone, it’s time to build the skeleton. We'll start with the graphics. Dig ut the list you made in phase three of laying the foundation—you'll need it now. But before you fire up your graphics program, and haul out the pencil and paper again—you'll need that, too. PHASE ONE: Create a Page Grid One key to a good Web site is consistent design, and at the heart of this is a common layout grid shared between pages. Get out a pencil and paper and sketch a grid showing how your pages will appear. Make places for the collateral elements you listed earlier (such as the logo and navigation graphics), and label each major item. Remember that, unlike traditional layouts for printed publications, Web page layout is not pre- cise. A couple rules of thumb: Avoid multiple columns of text such as those you'd see in a newspaper; stick to a square grid unless you have no other choice (curves are very difficult to integrate into a Web page); and pay particular attention to navigation—navigation bars should appear in easily accessible piaces. You may want to create two or three grids (one for the index page and one or two for interior pages), but don't go hog wild, cowboy. The whole point of a grid is to provide consistency. Conteh PHASE TWO: Start Building Elements Here's where we start getting graphic. Launch your favorite image editor (GraphicConverter, Photoshop, or just about any other program capable of creating GIFs and JPEGs), and start building the buttons, borders, and other visual goodies to pretty up your pages. Here are some guidelines for creating your site elements. * Keep in mind that graphics are big, no matter how well compressed. When using graphics in the place of text (to control font selection or as navigation devices), always keep users with slower modems in mind. * Save a master copy of your graphics in some nondestructive file format: GIFs, PICTs, and TIFFs work well for this, as do native Photoshop files. This way, you can make copies from your masters and munge the copies without fear of losing your originals. * Know that antialiasing adds size to GIFs. This technique, which blends a graphic at the edges, adds more colors and results in heftier file sizes. * Use the color-safe palette—most image editors (including GraphicConverter) can keep graphics constrained to the Web-safe palette: 216 colors that display without dithering on both Mac and PC. If users of both platforms will view your site (and odds are they will), constrain yourself to these colors. + If you plan to use JavaScript to make a graphic change at a mouse click or rollover, you'll have to make a version of it for each state: normal, the mouse over the graphic, the mouse clicking the graphic, and after the mouse button release. This is a common technique for buttons, typically those used in navigation. + If you want one specific typeface and no other (as in a headline or logo), make it a GIF. Do this with caution, though—a graphic is always bigger than a corresponding text file. Go down the inventory list you made earlier and make sure you've created every graphic you'll need. Then you're free to move to the next step. PHASE THREE: Optimize Your Graphics Now that you have master graphics created for your site, it’s time to create the Web versions of them—either GIFs or JPEGs. Open each graphic and save it to a new location as a GIF or JPEG depending on the type of image. (Read ahead for when to use each type). Remember that the majority of folks cruis- ing the Web are still using 56-Kbps or slower modems. It’s vital that you make everything on your site small enough to pass through that small pipeline quickly. Otherwise, you'll need inhumanly good content to keep folks coming back to a site that takes forever to download. There is a tradeoff, however; by making image files smaller, you sacrifice image quality because you lose either some of the data (in the case of JPEGs) or some of the colors (in the case of GIFs). You'll have to walk the line between size and image quality when optimiz- ing your graphics. Make them small enough for “navbutton.gif” is now 2,521 bytes instead of 5,887 bytes. That’s a savings of 57.18% with absolutely no change in appearance. quick download, but not so small that the site looks unprofessional. There are two diverging paths when it comes to making your graphics tiny—one for JPEGs and one for GIFs. Here are some quick tips on optimizing graphics for each format. JPEGs * You can compress JPEGs to lots of different sizes, but the smaller the final file, the worse the image quality. Try several different compressions of the same graphic to see what's acceptable. + Try blurring your image a bit to see if that reduces file size. In some cases, a sharp image is larger than a slightly blurred image. GIFs * Reduce GIFs to as few colors as possible. Each color added to a GIF file adds to its size. * Ifyou have to save a photo as a GIF, blur it A SMALLER GIF will wring the smallest possible file size out of your GIFs, some- times trimming them more than you thought possible. slightly to see if that reduces the file size. * Try saving a gray-scale photo as a GIF instead of a JPEG. In some cases the resulting GIF turns out smalier. Go figure. * Run your GIFs through A Smaller GIF, a shareware utility on The Disc. It can squeeze the most out of your GIFs, making your files as compact as possible. Some commercial applications do a great job of optimizing your Web graphics, both JPEGs and GIFs. We've included demos of two of these, Adobe ImageReady and Macromedia Fireworks on The Disc. These applications let you see the effects of compression on your graphics before you save them. This way, you can make an informed choice between file size and image quality. One other trick makes graphics appear to load faster in a browser, Slice large graphics into smaller sections and then, when it comes time to insert the graphic into a Web page, use a table to lay the graphic out so that the edges of the slices touch. Many Web applications will do this slicing trick for you, and it lets you be more creative in terms of layout, too. PHASE FOUR: Organize Graphics in a Folder Once you've saved your site’s graphics in Web friendly formats, you'll need to organize them. Create a folder on your Mac and rename it to your Web site’s name. This will be the home directory for your entire site. Within that folder, create another folder called “Images” for your graphics. Because you just know that your site will grow tremendously, make another folder inside the Images folder called “Navigation” (for items such as logos y — & revisstion == banner.gif ecu comm.ongif a mapongif Kia navlogo.gif news.on.gif [44 zone.o4.if dD — products dD @& services THIS FOLDER STARTS life mostly empty, but as your site grows, so will the folder’s contents. Be wise— back up your folder in a couple of places. and navigation bars). Move the Web-friendly versions of the files you just made into this folder. Congratulations—you're ready to start building pages. JPEG versus GIF ‘When it comes to putting graphics on your Web page, you have two choices: GIF or JPEG. Each has different strengths and weaknesses, making them perfect complements. So how do you know when to use JPEG and when to turn to GIF? Use our handy table to find out. | The good stuff Can be animated; works very well with images con- The good stuff Can heavily compress images, making photos very small. taining just a few colors. The bad stuff Loses image quality with compression; not good for images with The bad stuff Limited to 256 colors— Unisys holds a patent on it, and the company is tough few colors, about enforcing that limit. What it’s good for What it’s good for Great for photos or Great for images with a images with lots of single color or just a few colors. colors, such as logos or navigation graphics, Webmonkey http://www.webmonkey.com A part of Hotwired, Webmonkey offers fantastic content about creat- ing and maintaining a great Web site. It offers lots of good articles and a selection of utilities, too. The site also includes great basic reference sections for those Web-safe colors and a JavaScript code library. CGI01.com http://www.cgi101.com/class This online tutorial covers the ins and outs of CGI while promising to keep the subject at the same level as understanding HTML. The online class has turned into a book, however, and you'll only get the first six chapters—to get the rest, you'll have to buy the book. 01,COM | car Programming 101 Webreview.com http://webreview.com Loaded with articles covering just about everything from setting up your ‘own ecommerce site to integrating Perl scripts as CGls, Webreview.com is a deep site filled with tons of good reference materials. say ve 24 hrs Webmaster Station hitp://www.exeat.com This homey site contains some truly useful tools for Webmasters, including @ metatag generator, which makes search engines list your site properly; a URL Submission utility, which submits your URL to as many as 18 search engines; and a JavaScript maker, which painlessly Creates the code for JavaScript- Generated alert boxes, new windows, and prompts. It’s cool and easy to use. Webmaster Station EIRL Submission Adam's Advanced HTML Guide http://www.geocities.com/Silicon Valley/Orchard/5212 Okay, so Geocities hosts it, but Adam's Advanced HTML Guide has great information about HTML features. Don't expect to start your HTML learning here; however, if you want to go beyond the <p> </p> status, browse this way. “The Goodson Rifles Wacky HTML http://www.webdevelopersjournal .com/wacky This is a subsite within the Web Developer's Journal site that’s so cool, we had to mention it separately. If you're looking to do stupid HTML tricks (create wiggling type, color fades, and so on), you've come to the right place. The site itself makes great reading even if you're not planning to use any of its tips. Building pages Uf ee $0! pieces into a Web site. Are you ready? You should be—you've been working on it for 14 N ‘ow that you've done the underlying work (no small feat) it’s time to assemble alll of those hours now. PHASE ONE: Prep the Content It's finally time to build your site. But before you start spewing HTML pages alll over, you'll need to get your content together, and that means preparing more text and graphics. For Text You should have your prewritten articles (and we hope you have a lot of them, or building a Web site is going to take much longer than 24 hours) ‘saved as plain text files. To get them ready for the Web, we've included a wonderful utility called HTML Markup 3,0, which batch-processes text e <=—3 HIM files, even properly handling special characters (such as ampersands and curly quotes, which don't translate directly into HTML). HTML Markup 3.0 can also handle URLs, converting them into actual hyperlinks. Create more folders inside your Images folder, one for each of the content areas you created in your block diagram. Although you won't put the raw text files there, you will need the folders when you start saving HTML files. For Graphics Follow our earlier advice regarding GIFs ver- sus JPEGs. Save the optimized graphics in the images folder you created earlier, creating subfolders within it for each content area you set up in your block diagram—remember the pencil sketch that looked like a family tree? This step is very important, because when you start building pages the location of these graphics must be final. HTML MARKUP will help you get text files ready for the Web in a hurry. It batch-processes files, pre- serves special characters, and even adds headers and footers to the documents. PHASE TWO: Making HTML Now it’s time to dive in and create real Web pages. You have a choice to make here. You can either go it the real geek way and use a text editor to build your pages, or you can turn to a graphical Web page editor. Our advice? Use a combination. We've included Freeway 1.02 (a fine graphical Web page editor) on The Disc. Turn to Freeway to ‘set up your initial Web pages. Start with the index page and work down the architectural diagram you made in the first part of this process, creating pages as you go. Consider creating a stationery file that contains all the ele- ments common to each Web page (the collateral stuff such as the navigation bar and the logo), then making new pages from this. Here’s where a graphic layout tool makes tons of sense—tt's a lot easier to do layout in one of these applications than it is to hand-code a huge table. At this point, construction should be as easy as importing graphics and text, placing them in the desired locations, and saving the resulting HTML files in the folders you created earlier. When you make links in your files, it's important to save your HTML files in these folders—that's where the links will point when you upload your site. After you've finished creating your pages, test them out by dropping the HTML files on both Internet Explorer and Netscape Communicator. You'll want to check out how the pages work In both browsers. If you think that both Mac OS and Windows users will visit your site, then test the site’s pages using both browsers on both platforms. You'll be sur- prised at what you find—probably lots of bugs. Mostly it'll be typos, bad links, and mangled image tags. Have patience and cull through the lot, fixing them all PHASE THREE: Optimize & Organize Now that you have your Web pages, it’s time to clean out the extraneous code left in the HTML files. These can be certain metatags, optional tags, or other extras that don’t add to the final look and feel. If you used a graphical HTML editor, you have a lot of cleaning up to do. Remember—the cleaner your HTML files, the faster your pages will download and the happier your visitors will be. Integrating CGIs 00 @ are about to take a step into the realm of the advanced Webmaster—the realm of CGIs. CGI stands for Common Gateway Interface, which means almost nothing, except that it’s a way to get your Web site to do some very cool stuff. In the interest of space (this is a vast topic), we'll limit ourselves to implementing a simple search engine using a Perl script. Many Web servers use Perl as a way of manipulating text and files. It’s also tremendously helpful as a programming language. Most Web servers have a version of Perl built in. Incidentally, a CGI can be any program that can run on the Web server—whether it's a Perl script, a compiled C application, or even an AppleScript application. PHASE ONE: Setting the Stage Before you do anything, talk to the owner of your Web server to find out if you can implement and use Perl CGls on your Web site. Some ISPs are just fine with this, provid- ed you let them see the script you’re running. Others will even have CGls premade for you. Still others won't want foreign CGls running on their site. It’s important to get the permission of the server’s owner before implementing a CGl—you won't be able to do it without the go-ahead. Once that’s done, choose the Perl script you want. One great example is a search engine— everyone needs one of those. There's a simple example search script available at Matt's Script Archive (http://www.worldwidemart.com/scripts). Download your Perl script and any related read- me files, then open the script and files in a text edi- tor. The read-me file should have instructions for using the script on your site. Usually you only have to change a few things in the script to make it work. You may have to alter the first line of the script—it’s the location of the Perl program on the Web serv- er. Ask the server administrator for that information. PHASE TWO: Creating the Form Using an HTML editor (either a text or a visual page editor), create a form with two elements: a text box and a submit button. You can embed this form in an existing HTML page (perhaps your index page), or you can create a separate search page using the template you already developed. The search engine from Matt's Script Archive has a prebuilt search page teady to download, so you can study that for the HTML syntax or just use its HTML directly. The important thing here is that the action=”" portion of the form must point to the location of your search script. Here’s an example from Matt's Script Archive (taken from the sample HTML file downloaded with Simple Search). <form method=POST action="http:/Awww.mysite.com/cgi- bin/search.cgi"> <center><table border> <tr> <th>Text to Search For: </th><th><input type=text name="terms” size=40><br></th> s/tr>str> <th>Boolean: <select name="boolean’> <option>AND <option>OR </select> </th> <th>Case <select name="case"> <option>insensitive <option>Sensitive </select><br></th> sitr>str> <th colspan=2><input type=submit value="Search!"> <input PHASE THREE: Tying It All Together To get your search engine up and running, you'll need to upload it to your Web server and set its permissions, which simply means determining who has permission to manipulate the search engine's files. To do that, upload the Perl script to the cgi-bin directory of your Web server (ask your server administrator exactly where this is), then change the file’s permissions to 755. This security feature sets the script so that folks can read and run it but can’t change it. To change the file's permission, use Anarchie (or another FTP client) to log on to your Web server, move to the directory where you uploaded the CGI, select it, and select Set Permissions from the Remote menu. Make sure the Owner is allowed to Read, Write, and Execute, but the Group and Everyone selections can only Read and Execute. When you upload your site, you should be able to search engine. TO MAKE SURE THAT the proper people can use but can’t modify your search engine, set the permissions as shown. w3c http://www.w3.org Okay, the World Wide Web Consortium's Web site is pretty bor- ing, but you should make at least one trip here. After all, this august body sets the standards for the Web and has the bottom line on tags for just about everything—including HTML, XML, and Cascading Style Sheets. If you want to know how to make your Web site work properly, this should be your first stop. Leading the Web to its Full Potential... WSC Issues XSLT and XPath Recommendations ‘The World Wide Web Consortium announces two new documents, “Anyone using XML can now take advantage ‘ofXSLT, a powerul new tool for manipulating, converting ‘and sting documents, and XPath, a simple way of ‘erring to parts of an XML document” said Tim Bemors-Lee, W3C Director. Together, XSLT and xPath strike afine Balance bebween simplcty of use and ‘undertying power” (ress Release, Testimonials) ‘Other XSLTIXPath resources trom W30: + XSL Act Home naga + ‘iLActi Home pace + Sivie Activity Home page + When to Use xsi. other news: HTML Writers Guild http://www.hwg.org This nonprofit site (no advertising ‘banners—how cool!) is powered by members and a board of directors, and it hosts online classes, lists, reference materials, and much more—all devoted to writing great HTML. You should have no problem finding tons of stuff here to implement on your Web site. hud Hr Taal FEB/00 MacADDIC WebReference.com http://www.webreference.com Another site devoted to helping Web masters create great Web sites, WebReference.com features interesting articles on JavaScript, Perl scripts for CGls, graphics, Dynamic HTML, and other stuff that aspiring Webmasters should know. webreference Matt’s Script Archive | nttp://www.worldwidemart.com /scripts Home to a ton of free Perl scripts for CGI, Matt's Script Archive will have you turning your Web site into a thing of functional beauty in no time. Plus it fea- tures links to other free Perl scripts, some €++ CGI programs (if you really want to dive deep), and help installing and configuring scripts. Making It Live T he moment of truth has lh —E aS arrived. You're about to go live—with time to le spare, we hope. 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Companies such as ‘Total Recall (800-743-0594, http://www.totalrecall.com) or Drive Savers (800-440-1904, http://www.drivesavers.com) may be able to recover fost data for you by examining the inner workings of your disk drive, Be aware that drive recovery services are not cheap, but if you really need ‘that data back, they can prove invaluable. ashe The suitcase “System” could not be opened, because an error of type -39 occurred, 1. As always, a recent backup of the file remedies ail. 2. If your program has an import function, try importing the document. You should also try opening it from the file menu as opposed to just double-clicking the file. 3. Run a disk utility. Your corrupt document may really be a corrupt directory on the disk. However, be aware that these utilities are disk utilities, and they cannot fix bad file data. 4, Try opening the fife in another program that can handle that file type. If it will open, try a Save as—and save it to a different location. 5. If you can open the document, attempt to copy and paste all of the data into a new file. This is probably the most common method of saving corrupt document data. 6. If you just need to get to the text, try opening it with BareBones Software's BBEdit (781-687-0700, http:// www.barebones.com). This text editor can open just about anything. This is helpful if you just need text— you will lose ail the formatting and end up with some extraneous gibberish. Bonus: You can get rid of that gibberish with Text Cleaner Lite (201-270-8445, http:// Many times document corruption arises from a bug or flaw in an application. If you suspect your software may be at fault, check with the company that wrote it. There may be an update to fix the problem. However, when document corruption strikes and you don't have a backup, take ie appropriate steps to minimize your losses, as described below. = curingWhert,, Ails You 0s EbocuMENTs all possible corruption problems, a corrupt document is the most painful. Documents are the files you create—they can represent hours, weeks, or ven years of work. Needless to say, the most important step in fighting ‘document corruption is to maintain a current backup of important files. Take 1e time now, before document corruption strikes, to back up all your important documents to another media. Put them on a Zip disk or even burn a CD. If you have documents that change often, set up a schedule to back them up. You can even use Roland's SimpleBackup (free, http://www.acts.org/roland /thanks) to automate the process. The most common cause of document corruption is a ‘system crash. If the computer crashes while you are work- ing on a document, odds are pretty good that it got dam- aged in the process. Many of today’s applications are very talented at self-repair, opening corrupted documents to fix many problems. Unfortunately, they can’t always repair everything so conveniently. Here's an example: When you open a document, it loads into RAM. Changes periodically get written back to the disk file. If an error occurs in the B midst of recording these changes, the document may end up in an incomplete state. Basically, the computer no longer knows where the file starts and stops. This is an “End of file” error, and means the document is broken. Mies eee PSE ean as RECOVER? YES! Microsoft Word 98 sees that a file is corrupt and makes an attempt to repair it Javonecvery sovect 02-oorile. eck AFTER A CRASH, check the Trash for any rescued items. You just might be able to get some of the data back. www.studio405.com/textcleaner). 7. If you are using FileMaker Pro, it has a Recover command under the File menu that can recover data from a damaged FileMaker database. _B. If itis a proprietary data file, contact the developer of the application—sometimes it has special tools that can extract data from a corrupt document. 9. If the corrupt document is in QuarkXPress, try using Markztools, a file fixer for XPress (714-756-5100, hitp:// ‘Wwww.markzware.com/data/product/markztools.htmi). 10. if the corrupt document is an Excel spreadsheet, try using Excel Recovery (888-699-8228, http://www .officerecovery.com/mac). This handy utility may be able to extract your spreadsheet data and put it into a fresh document. 11. Downloading files from the Internet can also produce corrupt downloads. Your best bet is to just trash them and redownload, 42. Ifa system crash has corrupted a Microsoft Word 98 document, fook for the Word Work files. These files may contain the text you were just working on. = ae ne 7 uondnai0s Pesaran 9 (jung .