About My First Mac

The Site

We created MyFirstMac.com as a home for new and prospective Mac owners, independent of Apple, Inc. A place where new Mac users can find comprehensive, unbiased information about using a Mac, and Mac Pros can share the years of wisdom they have acquired.

We also strive to create evergreen content that will be useful for a long time to come. It is our aim that My First Mac will become a reference site that provides answers for most common Mac issues. We hope you bookmark MyFirstMac.com and return here to find all the advice and community you desire.

You'll notice that we've structured most pages for varying levels of interest. There is the Quick Scan section which gives you a short overview of the key points. Next, you'll find an in-depth article followed by the Dig Deeper section where you can discover links to more information about the topic on other websites. Below the Quick Scan area you will also find articles on My First Mac related to the central article.

But the most important part of My First Mac is where you come in. Readers like yourself can ask and answer questions related to the topics in the Comments section. You can also send in questions to the editor for the My First Mac Q&A column. And lastly, we all want to hear about your Mac story. Send us your Mac story with a picture and we may publish it in the Your Stories section to inspire others.

The Organization

My First Mac is published by Atomic Blue Publishing, a private company in California. We have a few people on staff and welcome contributors from all over.

The Infrastructure

My First Mac is produced with Macs, of course! We use Google Docs, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, iChat, Mail, iTunes, Transmit and TextEdit to help get it done. The site was designed by Atomic Blue Web Design and developed by Piroc Media. Our hosting is with Media Temple and we use Expression Engine for CMS.