RapidWeaver
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Based on 13 reviews
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RapidWeaver
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)
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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.
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TOO S L O W
Written by GT from Sippy Downs
Mar 24, 2009
After about an hour of trying to download the video tutorials that I just paid for, I am ready to explode. The basic program seems OK but I cant work out how to customize beyond colour changes, type etc. So subscribed for the tutorials, these things are so big they don't download in any decade soon! Don't bother if you cant work it out for your self the support is rubbish. Can't believe this is available via apple site.
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NOT FOR BEGINNERS
Written by WC from Tucson
Oct 20, 2008
8 hours into this thing and I still can't really get it going...and I am fairly computer literate...just not web design literate. The documentation is terrible. No index, no glossary. I have yet to follow one procedure (except the most basic) that works as described. And no help. They are in the UK and make it very clear there is no phone support. The tutorials are useless. I bought some plugins and can't get those working. Yes, it's all me but me is not that stupid. So I am now using the trial version of Freeway. Documentation MUCH better and there is a phone number. COME ON APPLE. STRIKE THIS THING FROM YOUR STORE.
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Use iWeb instead and save the money
Written by JC from Scottsdale
Jun 10, 2008
RapidWeaver does what it does rather well, but it comes up way short on being a real web development package. It is not significantly more advanced than iWeb. In fact, the only real difference is the ability to publish to a server other than .Mac. Other than that, it is more or less the same basic interface of iWeb '08. It's good but why buy it when iWeb will do the same thing? This product is best suited to constructing family photo album sites but is no good at all for any kind of (even limited) business site use. Sad to say, FrontPage puts it to shame so I still have a coal-fired PC in the corner for doing web development. I consider my purchase of this to have been a real waste of money.
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