I have been using RapidWeaver (registered) for about 12 months, and it is a seriously mixed bag. It makes pages supremely quickly and easily. It knocks spots of off iWeb and its themes look better. On the other hand, its plugins are frequently patchy and as a program it seems to have outgrown its roots with and interface which increasingly lacks focus and clarity. Where it really falls down though is in the bug ridden FTP upload function. In all honesty I have had nothing but problems worthy of a windows box from RapidWeaver FTP for the last four months. In the last two, I have not had uploads and have had to use third party FTP to get *anything* online.

The Rapidweaver "help" forums are worse than useless, being disorganised, confusing and a blatant afterthought.

Much of Rapidweaver's functionality is provided by third party plug-ins. They all cost extra. (For your blog entries to show up in Google etc... you need one. It costs ten bucks. It... works.)

Get LOTS of experience with this program before you pay. LOTS and LOTS of experience. Offset additional plugin price against purchase of a more expensive up front option. bear in mind that FTP problems can take months to manifest and may be plugin related.

I am venting at present, but I don't see any realistic likelihood of my experience of RapidWeaver improving before I have to abandon it and use something else.

Rating: Was probably really good, once.