RapidWeaver
A revolutionary, but friendly piece of web design software made exclusively for the Mac, RapidWeaver helps you create and publish beautiful, modern sites that are compliant with today's web standards.
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Overview
More than just a simple yet powerful website creation tool, RapidWeaver gives you the ability to blog and podcast, product Flash slideshows, customize your website themes, and more.
RapidWeaver is one of the most powerful desktop-based blogging systems around. It includes podcasting, inline comments, RSS feeds, custom permalink and tag support. RapidWeaver has also been finely tuned to be SEO friendly.
Awesome slideshows
RapidWeaver can produce beautiful Flash slideshows from your photos. You no longer need to own or learn Flash. It's as simple as picking the images you want and letting RapidWeaver do the rest. Don't worry if flash isn't your thing, RapidWeaver also makes stunning CSS based galleries.
Customizable themes
RapidWeaver makes customizing your website easy. Instead of having to get your hands dirty with HTML or CSS, the new Themes Styles feature allows you to pick and choose the colors as well as the layout of your site.
Smart publishing
Publishing your site to the Internet couldn't be easier with RapidWeaver's built-in one-click publishing. You can publish to .Mac, FTP, SFTP, and even locally to your desktop. RapidWeaver keeps track of the changes you make to your site and only uploads modified pages, keeping publishing time to a minimum.
System Requirements
- Mac OS X v10.4.3 or v10.5 or later
Mfr. Part No.: RPDMBX2
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Most Useful Reviews
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Rapidweaver Rules
Written by JR from Orlando
Jun 2, 2008
I just started using Rapidweaver and quickly realized that it is a great web design software. There are plenty of plugins and themes to choose from; however the add-ons are not necessary.
This is a good balance between iWeb and Dreamweaver.
Great job Realmac Software! …More67 of 70 people found this useful
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Top of the Heap
Written by CB from Sandy
Jun 3, 2008
This is just an excellent bit of software. I have been using RapidWeaver for 3 years now and it has replaced DreamWeaver. It takes so little time to put a website together, and so little time to adjust the pages, add data or media or change the whole look that I don't need to go back to DW. And with the plugins and great range of themes to help get the functionality and look that I want, I feel like a pro webmaster. All the prices are very reasonable, RapidWeaver, plugins and themes, so there is just no excuse to get weaving -- rapidly! …More
62 of 64 people found this useful
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Quick & Easy
Written by JC from Annapolis
May 28, 2008
Does exactly what it claims to do. Expandable with many add ons from different sources which are also very inexpensive. Created my site in a few hours. Very similar to iWeb. …More
46 of 49 people found this useful
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Most Recent Reviews
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Buggy
Written by NF
Oct 21, 2009
I bought RapidWeaver and a "Blueball" theme (company name hahah, big RapidWeaver presence though). The photo page template plus the Blueball theme doesn't work in IE8. Photos wrap all over the place. The Flash photo album crashes IE. Since I can't get under the hood, I'm stuck with working it out with tech support. And it's not going well. I hate debugging other people's code for them. Especially when I bought this product specifically as a turn-key system. Blueball sure is frustrating!! :)
The WSIWYG editor is goofy. It allows inline HTML but no "code" view. Undo works about 10% of the time. Code completion is missing. Automatic spell check is missing. If the template doesn't allow it, it ain't happening. This is really unfortunate as even the simplest tags (img for example) aren't directly supported or integrated. Yes, tags are allowed. But integration support, like automagical image uploading, is not directly supported unless it's predefined in a template. Info panels pop up like daisies. Three common panels overlap in function. They're all grouped strangely. I'm always hunting for the right one. The UI is completely non-intuitive.
Avoid. This is a sourceforge project that's somewhere in the beta stage. Save the $50 and get a better (albeit probably slightly more pricey) program.
Novice: iWeb
Intermediate: DreamWeaver
Guru: Code related IDE (Eclipse, CF Studio, etc)
Masochist: vi …More17 of 18 people found this useful
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Rigid, linear, indistinct
Written by BF from San Diego
Oct 20, 2009
I bought this as a "more powerful alternative to iWeb." I wish I hadn't. RapidWeaver screams pre-canned website. Expert design is hampered by template gridlock. In the other direction, drag and drop images don't work.
Themes and options are often (always?) controlled by javascript and css. So while my rapidly weaved website works, the banner loads last after a longer-than-a-second pause. Bah.
I'm setting up a site for an elementary school and thought this would be perfect for the non-tech faculty. I found a template that I like. And I can get it to work, especially considering I already spent the money. But it's going to be a lot of boiler plate coding on my behalf to get rid of all the style-specific image doubles, style sheets, and goofy theme hacks (while keeping the rw editor happy).
Summary: This software is only suitable for hobbyist sites. Reconsider iWeb if you already own it. …More13 of 13 people found this useful
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RW 4.2.3 a Disaster
Written by WS from Annandale
Sep 1, 2009
If one has installed OS 10.6 Snow Leopard RW 4.2.3 is useless. It will not open any prior work files or open files newly created. Do not upgrade your Mac OS until the RapidWeaver team provide a fix. …More
22 of 23 people found this useful
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Questions & Answers
Most Interesting
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is this product compatible with Snow Leopard?
- Asked by TH from Seattle
- Nov 17, 2009
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Is this a Version 3 or Version 4??
- Asked by LO from Tucson
- Dec 12, 2009
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is this product compatible with Snow Leopard?
- Asked by TH from Seattle
- Nov 17, 2009
