{"id":733,"date":"2009-08-27T15:03:52","date_gmt":"2009-08-27T20:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/?p=733"},"modified":"2009-08-27T15:05:24","modified_gmt":"2009-08-27T20:05:24","slug":"web-design-mac-or-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/2009\/web-design-mac-or-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Web Design &#8211; Mac or PC?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi,<\/p>\n<p>Once in a while, I use email questions sent to me as the subject of an article, this time the question is about whether someone should use a Mac or a PC if they want to get into web design.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230; I&#8217;m thinking of becoming a web designer and I was wondering if I would be better off with a Mac or a PC? Is there any advantage to using one over the other when building websites?<\/p>\n<p>Thanks,<\/p>\n<p>Jason<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Short answer: <\/strong>there is no real advantage on either PC (Windows) or Mac when it comes to web design. Here are the two reasons why:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The technology&#8217;s behind websites (HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP etc&#8230;) are universal.<\/li>\n<li>All the major software used in web design production can be found on both Mac and PC. The one exception maybe Web Expression from Microsoft.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Outside of web design, some would argue for Mac and others for PC. I use both, but I can see how some might prefer one or the other. That said, prior to the soon to be released Windows 7, Mac has had Windows beat hand-downs &#8230; all things considered. <\/p>\n<p>With Windows 7 coming out though, I&#8217;ve heard from many reliable nerd sources, that Microsoft has really improved things a lot. <\/p>\n<p>&#8230; I will almost certainly be upgrading my XP box when Windows 7 comes out. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Conclusion:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you are looking to jump into web design, you are pretty much free with regards to which type of computer to get. I would be making my computer choice based on other things, for example:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stability of the operating system.<\/li>\n<li>Ease of use.<\/li>\n<li>Cost<\/li>\n<li>What looks nicer to you!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I hope that helps,<\/p>\n<p>Stefan Mischook<\/p>\n<p>www.killersites.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, Once in a while, I use email questions sent to me as the subject of an article, this time the question is about whether someone should use a Mac or a PC if they want to get into web design. &#8230; I&#8217;m thinking of becoming a web designer and I was wondering if I &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=733"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":745,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions\/745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}