From PC & Front Page to Mac.Help!

Stuck in the middle~

[Tooni]

Got an issue...started a web design biz with a partner using his PC (equipped with his Photoshop6 & Front Page). We've desolved the biz, and now I have to maintain a customer's site on my Mac G5 (with Photo Shop 7 & no web publishing software). How do I do this? Can I get Dreamweaver (or another program) and proceed?

This is a high school football team's site that I update weekly. I have the artwork, psd's, etc. on disc from the PC.

I hate to tell this customer, I can't maintain your site cuz my partner split with the equipment.

Thanks!
Tooni

[lZakl]

First off ... I will say that going into business for anything, you should know most aspects of the items you are selling. In your case that would have been Web Development. Meaning you should have increased your skills as far as HTML, CSS and JavaScript at the least. Could you not just edit the teams page with a text editor rather than a GUI in the meantime?

That being said, there are a few web development programs available for the Mac. The most used is Dreamweaver, and another is GoLive. Dreamweaver is by Macromedia and GoLive is by Adobe. Sort of moot me mentioning that since they're the same now, but ... lol

If you are not comfortable with software you don't know, there is always the option of buying Frontpage (available only for Windows) and getting Virtual PC to run FP on your Mac via Win 98/XP/2000. In my opinion though, that would be a waste of money and resources being it would be more expensive to do it that way, and won't be but 1/10 as fast emulating Windows on a Mac. In short?

If I had to, I'd get Dreamweaver ... Or buy a PC and Frontpage. Dreamweaver does have a "Frontpage migration kit" also.

-- Zak

[techrealm]

And also to get the site migrated to Dreamweaver you need to know if its hosted specifically for Frontpage - IE which Frontpage Extensions are in place and for which web server version it is set up for so you can get working versions of the Extensions "functionality" somewhere else.

Or buy into frontpage - its a business decision from there, and that depends on how much money your taking in from it and how often you plan on adding content to the site, your tolerance for software changes / usage etc.