I've been coding raw HTML and JavaScript since 1996. I've coded probably a few hundred thousand lines or more by hand. I come from a family of artists but I wasn't gifted with the same skills in visual design and creating an attractive website has always been a challenge for me. I can say however that RapidWeaver is perfect for me. It lets me whip up a beautiful site design quickly and easily. If I need to go in and tweak things then I have full access to the code. The people who said you can't change the themes don't know what they're talking about. This is a great piece of software.

This is a great dashboard widget. But it appears that Google made some changes that break the widget. Hopefully we'll see an update soon.