macbeginnerschool.com

On keyboard page also explain the lack of keys such as delete, home, end, pgup, pgdown, and how to replace them with shortcuts. That was my big issue when I first switched to mac.

 

I'm exciting about checking out the site...I'm a Mac Newbie myself

 

I hope the new Mac user got a large screen Mac.

You might think about scaling things down a bit. A 1280px fixed width for a website is a tad excessive unless your target audience is visually impaired.

 

Check out:
http://browsersize.googlelabs.com/

You can create a website that takes advantage of the full width of the browser vs a fixed size but always good to have a max-width on content.

 

Nice design !
Are you using any web development tools ?

 

Don't make the assumption that your screen width is everybody's screen width. That is a common design mistake when people first begin creating sites.

There are two basic ways you can design a site: Fixed width or fluid.

A centered, fixed width design is very common these days. Apple's website is a centered, fixed width design.

MacRumors, on the other hand, is a fluid design. The center column and top bar expand and contract so the website fills the entire window.

If you are going to use a fixed width design it should fit comfortably in the window your average user has open. It is rare for a Mac browser to open to the full width of the user's screen.

The only Mac user I know that stretches browser windows out to fit the whole screen is a recent PC convert who is used to that "look". Every other Mac user I know has windows tiled all over their desktop (which is usually the application default. i.e. when you open a new Safari window it doesn't open one that fills the whole screen).

Currently I have Safari open, iChat open, MSN open, MS Word open and iTunes open. My overall screen width is 1440 pixels, but I doubt my Safari window is open more than 800 or 1000 pixels right now. Honestly, if I have to resize the width of my browser to accommodate a website I usually just leave that website. I like my window's open a certain size, and side to side scrolling is a pain.

A good exercise is to surf the web and check out all the major websites. Get a feel for what fixed width is common these days (I try to stay under 960px or so when I design).

Cheers!