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RapidWeaver

RapidWeaver - 4.3

Simple and themeable site publishing app.

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This Version: Not rated (0.0)
Current Version: 4.3
Release Date: 2009-09-10
License: Update
Downloads (this version): 1,735
Downloads (all versions): 6,565
Price: $79.00

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Product Description:

RapidWeaver is a next-generation web design application to help you easily create professional looking web sites in minutes. No knowledge of complex code is required, RapidWeaver will take care of all that for you. RapidWeaver now produces 100% XHTML & CSS based websites.

What's new in this version:

  • Snow Leopard compatibility
  • Added the ability to add and edit links in Styled Text views via the right-click contextual menu
  • The right-click contextual menu now exposes the default commands for searching Google & Spotlight, Dictionary lookup, suggested spellings
  • RapidWeaver now uploads all the assets relating to a site, and then uploads the pages themselves to ensure that pages display correctly when published
  • Google Analytics code is no longer output when previewing within RapidWeaver to prevent pageview number inconsistencies
  • When searching blog posts a space is now treated as an AND operation
  • Added suffix matching to the blog search function
  • Better error reporting when uploading to MobileMe, and some small improvements to MobileMe publishing
  • No longer bounces the dock icon when publishing completes
  • No longer Growls "success" when publishing fails
  • The page list is now update immediately when a page name is changed via the page inspector
  • Respects the "original format" setting when exporting images on Intel machines
  • Fixed a bug where the document wasn't marked as changed when changing settings in the page inspector
  • Fixed a bug where RapidWeaver would fail to launch in some cases (the console was complaining about Garbage Collection being enabled)
  • Fixed a bug where some error dialogs were presented twice
  • Fix for a bug where a plugin failing to load could leave RW in an unknown state
  • Fixed an error when previewing pages with spaces in the filename
  • Fixed a bug where new pages didn't have unique page names
  • Fix for links that were missing intermediate folders from their paths (particularly assets)
  • Fixed a crash when changing a theme with more then 1 document open
  • Fixed a crash when deleting or duplicating a theme
  • Fixed a bug that caused duplicate menu items to appear in the contextual menu
  • The edit link menu item now works when right-clicking images with links
  • Fixed an issue preventing the contextual menu from working with some 3rd party plugins
  • Custom attributes added via the link panel are no longer encoded automatically
  • Link panel now keeps track of it's expanded/collapsed state
  • All table views should now remember column order and sort selection
  • Shortcut keys added to link panel (command-1/2/3)
  • Most table views should now respond to the delete key to remove items and to add items.
  • Automatically open the field editor for editing when adding items to most table views.
  • Shortcut keys added to site setup sheet (command-1/2/3)
  • Fixed a bug where editing the meta tags or page assets in the page inspector didn't mark the page as changed
  • Better handling of MobileMe publishing errors

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

  • Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
  • Mac OS X 10.5 PPC

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RapidWeaver ReviewA great way to get your first website created - Version: 4.2.3, 9/1/2009 05:23PM PST

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Kevin Hoctor
The RapidWeaver concept is a great idea. By creating a cross between a WYSIWYG editor and a simple template you get nicely designed, professional website with very little effort.

When you give too much control over your website layout in a WYSIWYG editor (ie with iWeb), you get amateurish, slow, unprofessional websites.

RapidWeaver combines the best of both worlds, giving you the ability to customize the look of your website while making sure it looks professional, organized and clean.

I think RapidWeaver is the perfect choice for people who want to get a personal or small business website developed quickly, easily and inexpensively.
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RapidWeaver ReviewBest Semi-Pro App - Version: 4.2.3, 5/25/2009 03:18PM PST

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smplfrk
There is only one thing you can do to write better sites - do it by hand. Of course there is room for improvements - but it is the best app available for the moment…
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RapidWeaver Reviewdrop-down menus, wysiwyg figs - Version: 4.2.3, 5/16/2009 05:30AM PST

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ed Takken
iWeb is wonderfully wysiwig and especially in placing and sizing figures is far superior to RapidWeaver.

iWeb does not do drop-down menus. Though recommended by an Apple store rep, RapidWeaver doesn't really do drop-down menus either. It looks like it does at first, but it gets two things wrong that make it unuseable. 1) The top menu that pops up the pull-down must implement a link. 2) The drop-down menu text headers word wrap after only 22 characters. Also, drop-down menus are impossible to find in the RapidWeaver documentation.

I told RealMac about these problems in version 4.2.1, but here in version 4.2.3 the problems still persists. So there is no reason to spend money on RapidWeaver when free iWeb does everything else better.
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