My name is James Powell. I am the writer, designer and web master of Mac Tricks And Tips. Over the past year I have used the Apple Mac operating system more and more. In this time I found tips, tricks and other bits of information that really help my experience. As a result I made this site to share with the world these tips and tricks.
A bit about me. I have been living in Lincoln in the United Kingdom. I have lived there all me life. Its a pretty slow place, but I like it. If you want to contact me you can use some of the information listed below or the Contact Form.
If you want to know more about me, drop me and email or use the contact form located here.
This section is all about Mac Tricks And Tips. From the day the CPU calculations initialized this site, to today. Each major stepping stone is covered. You can look at the website archive, which shows every post made by myself on this site.
The start of Mac Tricks And Tips. At the time when I bought my Mac, I wanted to share with the world what I new. I started on blogger with the default template, with not many changes to the overall design. But due to time constraint, and the fact that I didn't know what I was doing the site sort of died to the back rooms of the internet.
The restart. After blogging for over a year I had a better idea what I was doing and I wanted to start again dealing with Mac tips and tricks. A redesigned the default blogger template, into the one seen below. As well as this I bought the Mac Tricks And Tips domain. The re-development took about a month (starting in December). As most designs it went through a couple of re-developments until I decided on something that I was happy with. The domain was a rather simple impulse purchase. I was actually quite surprised that I could have snagged something so good.
Mac Tricks And Tips was well under way. After a month of posting and tip finding I was in full flow of blogging. It was time to make a bigger splash. After slowly having more and more posts I decided to make The Top 100 Essential Mac Applications. This post ended up on the Digg front page, bring in a wade of visitors and new RSS subscribers.
Things were moving along nicely, there was a steady stream of income and visitors, but I wanted to do more with the site. The limitation of blogger meant that I could only do certain things. I wanted more control over the site and what I do with it. As a result I took the decision to move to WordPress. It wasn't a straight move. I decided to change the site design, learn PHP and move to a web host. Over the next couple of months I learnt how PHP worked, how WordPress worked, as well as good website design skills. I new who to make websites, I was doing that for a long time. But I pulled out all of the stops, tweaking and modifying the site on my local computer until I had something I wanted. A screen shot is shown below. 
School was nearing the end and exams had finished. It was moving day. After spending months designing the site and looking at every possible web host available I picked Slicehost.
Today All of these events lead of to today. Each month I regularly publish a monthly roundup of all of the latest events the happen every month. You can find them in the update category. This page will be updated every couple of months with the main events of Mac Tricks And Tips.
This final section is dedicated to how this site runs. The cogs and gears behind the pages you see. I've put this page up because I am always interested in how a site runs and what people use. This section is all about the different elements that bring this site together.
Various Website Plugins are used to make the site better and more useful. These include:
Finally jQuery, javascript is used to do the fading in effects, show on this page, as well as the small comments box drop down on the posts. It was used more extensively through out the site, with lots of visual effects, and moving parts. But it looked rubbish so I removed it.
Testing was made sure that it was Valid CSS and HTML. This site has been tested in Firefox, Safari and the latest Internet Explorer. If the site renders funny you may need to upgrade you browser version. I recommend Firefox.