So, I tried to use iWeb today. It’s spectacular if I were to time travel back to 1999. A great competitor to MS Frontpage which was last released in 2003 and discontinued in 2006. Seriously, who makes one web page at a time. I’m blogging 1-3 things a day. There’s no way I’m going to spend a week getting the About Me page just right. WordPress is so slick and handles so much of this for you.
In the mean time, I got FTP going to stephensite.net and it’s downloading all the sites right now. So, maybe WordPress will get an upgrade to the latest version. It’s been ages since I had desktop email at home to Hotmail or StephenSite. I had to submit a ticket for the settings. It would be nice to have Mac Mail or Thunderbird going. The setup on Grandma’s computer has this and it’s very slick. I forgot how well I set that up.
Transmit is great. Better than CuteFTP or SmartFTP. These programs can super overload you with functionality. Maybe it’s the Mac interface limiting this a bit. There was not problem setting up the FTP and saving it in favorites.
I also got Subversion going. Took a little doing and making new repositories still takes a line in Terminal; svnadmin create /path/to/repository. SCPlugin integrates with Finder like TortoiseSVN in Windows Explorer, but with less functionality. Hopefully, they keep working on it. There’s no way to create a repository or customize which SVN commands are in the drop down. You only need about a six, but a dozen are listed.
One last thing. This morning I rebooted of the RSyncX backup on the external drive. It took longer, but everything looked fine. After the backup, reboot and hold down the Alt key. Mac OS will present you with an option for which drive to boot off of. Everything was typical after that.