I too am an old guy. I found this program in a bundle I bought after I volunteered to be webmaster for the non profit where I have dedicated most of my life. The previous site and my experience at my school was Fromtpage. I found the learning curve relatively short and had presentably rebuilt the old site within a week of starting. Since then I have learned enough about coding to be dangerous. I taught myself how to use enough Dreamweaver just enough to credibly edit and ultimately improve existing handmade pages that did not fit the rather shallow RW mold. I bought a .mac account so that I could make linked pages with current events photos. RW doesn't handle photo pages well IMHO. Over time I have learned to use Dropbox to allow other users to edit. The program allowed me to make a useful resource tool for our organization and have scoffed at those who say it isn't pretty enough. I just upgraded to 5 and don't see much difference. I have read about other alternatives like Sandvox but it aint broke and I don't plan to fix it.

I am amazed that they actually charge to see the how-to tutorial videos. So after I purchase this you are going to charge me AGAIN just to see the videos on how to use this software.
That is simply crazy !!!!
I am interested in purchasing Rapidweaver 5.2.2 but if I can't see for myself the ease of use then I guess I'll pass.

imo still a potential winner among webdesigner tools. It is very simple yet powerfull.
The only thing that should be included by default is 'blocks'.

Great software, awesome forums for support, and incredible extensibility through the fully supported 3rd party development community.

I'd like to add some informations from the rare good level review from ChrisPolus.
First, don't pay Rapidweaver the big price, it'll appear in any bundle once a year at least, and that's the right price to pay it, because of the extra charge noticed in the other reviews.
Second, as a beginner who want to find a good way to develop website, try WordPress first. It's free, had a very big community, and most of the add-ons are also free. But you need not so short learning curve to have result, even to install it on ftp on your internet provider space.

What ChrisPolus says very good, is that he's a webdevelopper; he knows how to code when it comes to enhance the look and feel of your website. And that's the very difference between him and me: I'm not a webdev, and I don't want to be, but I really need to use websites in my work, with no time to spend to learn a lot of changing rules in web development (I'm an assistant professor in visual semiotics and communication; if I have to know how the web works, I don't have to develop myself and have really no time to spend to learn how to).
In that case, RW is good, really good; I used it first several years ago (in version 2, I think), with a real urgence to find a solution to provide several different files in a cool way to my students that were blocked out the university; two years later, I'd like to find a way to give students lots of images files I show on courses, with the slideshows I use to present.
It took me half a day to make my first site with RW, great looking (for me) and helpfull for my students. I was able to give my students a web companion way before the university provide it… and in a very coolest and most elegan way.

For anybody who wants to show things on the web with not any money to hire a developper and not any time to learn html, CSS and javascript (or php bases, what you need to use correctly WordPress, Drupal or Joomla), Rapidweaver is the best software, although I agree with all that ChrisPolus says.

But if you have some times (I mean a dozen days), a well built project on paper, try this way: spend a day with each of the concurrent: RW, Freeway, Sandvox, Flux, Webacapella, even BlueGriffon if you want to defend open source, and spend two days with Wordpress (one day is NOT enough). If you are skilled enough, and if your project need several dynamic pages, I think you'll choose Wordpress to develop your site. If you're interest in the result and want to have a simple and flexible workflow, I think you'll choose RapidWeaver. If you are more graphic skilled and have some habits in graphic software, maybe you should choose Sandvox…
But if your project is too big, and need regular improvements, maybe you can look at the prices of some dev? :-)

You have the choice, and RW is not the best in every way, but according to what I say, it's the one of the shortest learning curve (as short as iWeb) and could be a companion for long years with progressive learn in webdev.

Last, but not least, some extra add-ons are NECESSARY: Stacks is the first (make your page open to built like a Lego), RapidAlbum the second (add many ways to slideshow your pictures - and it's free!), PlusKit the third (make you able to add slideshow in any type of page, and more, to import any page in any other).

Remember you can also embed any type of external page in your Rapidweaver project with a built-in plug-in. That means you can add a forum, a blog, a survey, a CMS, even a sellbox, you can make password pages, for free, but sometimes with a little code to add (all explained on the web or on the rapidweaver forums), though there are lot of paid add-on that let you do it smoother, without any code to learn.

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