This new Macbook Pro is too much fun.  I bought the thing to program for the iPhone and record my music in Logic Express, but so far I have not really done much of that.  There is just too many other fun things to do with this thing.

My latest time consumer has been re-working my tired and boring webpage Justin Hackett.com. And how’s that going? Great, although I like to do it sitting in my recliner with a sleeping 11 month old baby sleeping on my chest. It could go a lot faster too if I would use a mouse, but the trackpad on these new Macs is wicked fun. I think I mentioned that in my last post. The main thing slowing me down, besides having a hard time breathing with this weight on my chest, is learning all the buttons and functions in iWeb. But really it’s pretty user-friendly to figure out.

I watched one tutorial movie on Apple’s website about iWeb and I haven’t had to search for any other information to get the results I want. I’m sure I’m missing a lot of features that the application is capable of, but for just jumping right in an designing a webpage this is the easiest thing I’ve tried. It’s looking pretty good too, if I might add.

You can add all kinds of pre-made widgets in your page, and the possibilities are endless for customization. I’m curious about how to change the default text of the page tabs, though. I can edit the font style for the text in the actual page, but when I try to edit the page tab font style, I’m stuck. No biggie, I’ll figure it out or figure out it’s impossible.

The other thing I’ll have to research is how to publish the thing. I think you just hit publish and pick the folder where you want it to go, but I’ll cross that bridge when I get to it.

Other than that, I’ve been reading the Logic Express tutorial (the PDF that comes with the application) and performing the steps in my Logic application. Wow, what a program. It’s way cooler than Cubase. I can’t wait to jump in with some real projects.