Some simple mac/blogging software help, please

[mysankalpa]

My friend Dectorlove, who posts here all the time, says this is a great place for getting help and information...and sometimes giving the same.

I want to start a blog, even took a blogging workshop from another WaccoBB guy, Ed Mills, but I am having the most basic of problems. I got a domain name and a host and am using wordpress.org.

My problem, a seemingly simple one I think, is getting a theme from the wordpress library of available themes to upload to my site. I want this as I don't want to use the very bland theme that is the wordpress default.

This should be easy, it looked easy in the workshop, but I can't seem to figure it out. I have Fetch but don't know how to use it in this case. Not totally computer illiterate but sometimes I am digitally challenged.

I would gladly trade an excellent massage, I am a CMT, in exchange for some help. If you know how to do this and want to help, post back and maybe we can speak by phone. Thanks!

[shellebelle]

I don't know WordPress but I know Mac and one thing I can't seem to find on WordPress is that they are indeed compatible with Mac. All the notes talk about PC.

So the first question I ask is have you sent them a note and asked them if they are Mac compatible? And if so what Operating Systems.

Next what mac are you running? And have you gone to that OS site to see if it is WordPress compatible? Just because something goes one direction it may not go the other.

Macs can be a bit of snob. They like everything to be compatible with them - so for instance Leopard doesn't work with the current version of MYOB well.

I have a feeling this is just a problem with them talking to each other.




My friend Dectorlove, who posts here all the time, says this is a great place for getting help and information...and sometimes giving the same.

I want to start a blog, even took a blogging workshop from another WaccoBB guy, Ed Mills, but I am having the most basic of problems. I got a domain name and a host and am using wordpress.org.

My problem, a seemingly simple one I think, is getting a theme from the wordpress library of available themes to upload to my site. I want this as I don't want to use the very bland theme that is the wordpress default.

This should be easy, it looked easy in the workshop, but I can't seem to figure it out. I have Fetch but don't know how to use it in this case. Not totally computer illiterate but sometimes I am digitally challenged.

I would gladly trade an excellent massage, I am a CMT, in exchange for some help. If you know how to do this and want to help, post back and maybe we can speak by phone. Thanks!

[Looksgood]

I have no desire to ignite one of those "Macs vs PC" debates, but I could not let this pass. I agree that Apple blew the transition to Leopard in a big way with regard to software developers, and consequently a number of important programs do not yet work properly under Leopard (it is the responsibility of the application to conform to the operating system, not the other way around). However to say that the Mac has a general problem with compatibility is simply not true. Macs have always been better at handling Windows files than the other way around. Macs have always been able to read Windows disks, back to the floppy days.

In fact an anecdote will illustrate; true story. My friend, who is a Mac consultant in Marin was at a client's office where they also had Windows computers. One of the employees was expressing frustration because her Windows computer would not read an important data disk (this was back in the floppy days.) he asked for the disk and put it in the Mac he was working on, which read the disk. He copied the files, ejected the disk, formatted a fresh disk for Windows (still on the Mac), and copied the files to it. He then put the new disk in the Windows machine, which was able to read it.

If being a snob means appreciating and preferring the finer things of life, then Macs and Mac users can probably be considered snobbish. However if it means not playing nice with others, then not guilty.

Patrick Brinton




Macs can be a bit of snob. They like everything to be compatible with them - so for instance Leopard doesn't work with the current version of MYOB well.

I have a feeling this is just a problem with them talking to each other.

[shellebelle]

Actually the way it works is that Mac releases its new OS then the software manufacturers catch up. Major software is pretty fast but smaller manufacturers need a few extra months. - That along with it was probably a communication issue was my only point.

I already offered to help him through it once I realized it was with Fetch not with WordPress. Should be easy.

Being cross platform I am pretty good with both systems and know the ins and outs.



I have no desire to ignite one of those "Macs vs PC" debates, but I could not let this pass. ...