ok, so I lied...

[thanate]

...but I have two important questions for the populous. Or at least, for those of you who might know about Mac software...

I have (though I haven't yet re-installed it) a copy of Dreamweaver. Which is all very well-- it knows more code than I do, and this is useful in a web-design program, because otherwise I won't learn anything. But I don't like that so very much of it is automated, and if I don't know the tags for things, it doesn't make it easy to figure out which bit of instantly-generated code I want to change. Does anyone know of a slighly less agressively user-friendly html &ct program for the Mac?

And-- here's the hard one-- I also want a MIDI-generating program. Because Garage Band will create things like MIDI files, but won't let you export them in a useful format. And I have yet to discover any MIDI creation software for OS X, which you'd think would exist somewhere. Although perhaps I am just not good at looking for these things.

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I now have filled two thirds of a film container full of pokeweed berry juice (now I just need something to dye with it!) and discovered that while most of the muslin I was using to strain it with is an attractive pinkish purple, the center bit that had the actual berries squished through it is an icky red-brown. And I thought-- I just created vegan bloodstains!

Comments

[troyfish.livejournal.com]

DW is still the best software I believe... Thrre are 3 modes you can be in. Code view, which is all about the entering the code by hand, WYSIWYG view, and split view where you can see both do their things as you update. There are some good help files and references from within DW that will help you figure things out.

As for the MIDI stuff, not sure. Do you want to take existing songs, sounds and convert to MIDI or generate MIDI content

[thanate.livejournal.com]

See, that's what I'm objecting to-- even the code view is set up so that if you don't use their specific forms at the right times when they're offered, you have to input the whole thing by hand. My old html creation program (which admittedly was flawed in other ways) had a much better system of menu access to say "now I want to do insert this color code here" or whatever, and it was driving me nuts trying to work with dreamweaver where so far as I could figure out, you can only input color codes in the places they think you ought to want them. I want a program that doesn't make the value judgement of not letting me do something it thinks is stupid, because odds are I'm just puting my code together in a different order or something.

I want a program that lets me create MIDI files. The only other person I know to have this ambiton does it on a PC. So far everyone I've asked (you included) has said, "Oh, I don't know anything about that..."