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Feb 17 2009
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DENNY DOUBLEPLUS MARKETING  This is an amazing plugin for RapidWeaver! A real “must have.” It allows you to move your content items around by dragging and dropping... and even a little push here, and slide there. Try the demo, I bet within a day you’ll buy it!  
(Version 3.2.1)

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Dec 29 2008

PAOLO TRAMANNONI  That's fantastic. It's like transforming RapidWeaver into a different, more powerful application, where you can freely "paint" your page. With the same ease of use of RapidWeaver. A must have.  
(Version 3.2.1)

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Sep 2 2008
*****

SUNDOG02  Excellent Plugin for Rapidweaver. The new auto update feature works great. A must have addition to any rapid weaving web head and free form content designer.   
(Version 3.2b2)

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Sep 2 2008
*****

MILESLONG  Blocks is the best plugin for Rapidweaver hands down. I can't imagine designing an entire website without using it at least for some of the pages.

Makes a great product, RW, even better. Great developer as well, all of his products are first rate.

If you are going to start using RW then this is your first plugin to buy.  
(Version 3.2b1)

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Apr 14 2008

NICK BURT  Great product – It enhances RapidWeaver's capabilities no end – and great support. I emailed the developer with a query and got the answer I was looking for within an hour and a half. Fantastic!  
(Version 3.1.1)

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Jan 3 2008
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MD07  This + Rapidweaver is a really solid product. It's not perfect, but neither are any of the alternatives (maybe your hand-coded CSS/XHTML isn't perfect either!) I would highly recommend this to anyone who needs to build a creative site extremely fast. Even if you're just using the created site as a feature rich mockup for clients, the price and ease of use really can't be beat. Kudos to the dev.  
(Version 3.1)

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Jun 6 2007

DAN.TINIANOW  I invite Blocks 3 users to visit my new website, www.blockshead.com to share blocks and master pages for the new Blocks 3 library feature. Nothing to download yet, but now accepting file submissions. Thanks!  
(Version 3.0.1)

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May 26 2007

YOURHEAD  RapidWeaver is not designed to do WYSIWYG -- and neither is Blocks. Blocks only controls the content area of your RapidWeaver layout.

I DOES allow you to do thing that other pure WYSIWYG software does not. You can add HTML code, PHP, Flash and javascript very easily.

Those benefits (or RapidWeaver as a whole) come at the cost of pure WYSIWYG.

I'm sorry someone had trouble with Internet Explorer -- but I believe his experience is probably not the norm.

I use Blocks for many pages on my own web site and it's tested regularly to work well on IE 6 and 7, Firefox, Comino, Opera, and of course, Safari.

Give it a test yourself and find out!

Isaiah  
(Version 3.0)

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Mar 28 2007

MACLOVER1.1  I'm back... I'll just tell anyone to be extremely careful before planning to use this... way too many issues with Explorer on PC... so when it is all peachy and sweet on Safari for example.. it is a completely different story with Explorer (PC as it is dead on MAc so we cannot even test it.. nope I ain't got a hybrid machine yet) and we all know 95% of internet users on the planet use Safari... NOT... so think twice ! I'm trashing the plugin.. . I'^ve lloked way stupid in the face of a cleint and this promising plugin has unfortunately brought me trouble and has wasted much of my time.. so I would not recommend it to anyone who needs its pages to fucntion on Explorer on PC..emenaing: everyone basically.  
(Version 2.3.1)

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Mar 28 2007

MACUPDATE ADMIN  Everyone using a PC is using IE? No one uses Firefox? I'm curious, how does this thing behave with Firefox on PC?  
(Version 2.3.1)

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May 24 2007

RPPHOTO  Weird, I've used it on several sites without a problem. Not quite sure what the problem is here... .  
(Version 3.0)

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Feb 26 2007

ORION MK. V  Not perfect -- wysiwyg isn't quite 100% -- but it's still a great plug-in that gives the rather rigid structure of RapidWeaver some flexibility. Haven't decided whether to drop cash yet for it, but the demo doesn't suck.  
(Version 2.3.1)

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Feb 26 2007

ORION MK. V  Commenting on my own review, as I was reviewing one version old. v2.3.1 is awesome and the browse option on the rollovers actually works -- could get the previous version to work.  
(Version 2.3.1)

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Feb 3 2007

MACLOVER1.1  Ok sure it adds a very useful functionality.. but it is buggy... blocks eat up part of their content if you trust the wysiwyg setup view.. basically what you see is not what you get. You've got to give more space on the sides of the blocks to make sure you are not missing content.. and the blocks end up not appearing similar in different browsers.. namely Safari on OSX and Explorer on Windows. The blocks cannot be locked while working so any "wrong" mouse movement moves them.. when all you wanted to do was edit their content you move the blocks themselves almsot every single time.. sure a little undo will put them back where they were but till I find this aggravating.. so a "lock block position" seems mandatory as far as I'm concerned. All in all RW and all its plugins are very cute but the whole deal feels a bit childish for lack of a better word. Not sure it is a YourHead issue, all this may stem frm the way RW is built.. dunno. Yet RW has no true adversary so I guess one cannot really complain... this whole arena is open to development I guess then.  
(Version 2.2)

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Feb 25 2007

YOURHEAD  Hi MacLover,

Sorry you didn't like my tool. I have a few responses to your comments -- it seems like maybe you "didn't get it" or didn't give it enough time:

1. Blocks is not meant to be WYSIWYG. In fact any tool for the web (outside of Flash) that claims to be is probably only somewhat WYSIWYG. Font's spacing and structure of the various browsers are just plain different -- there's no getting around it. Blocks works in RapidWeaver. One of RapidWeaver's key features is to separate content from style. That pretty much mandates that Blocks cannot even be close to WYSIWYG. So it doesn't even try. Instead it gives you a freeform layout tool within the confines of the RapidWeaver way of doing things. You edit your content in Blocks and apply a theme with RapidWeaver. The theme changes the page to fit the style of your whole site.

2. Blocks DOES have a position lock feature. You can lock the x,y coordinate or the width or the height. It's right there in the Block Info window. I'm not sure how you could have missed it. It's pretty much the first thing you see when you open up the settings.

3. I'm not sure what to say about RapidWeaver feeling "childish." It seems like you're stretching to find flaws here. If childish is my worst bug -- then so be it. I'll take childish over "crashes", or "produces horrific HTML" -- which are the obvious bugs of my two main competitors.

Keep in mind that RapidWeaver and it's plugins have a target audience that is decidedly different from DreamWeaver. It's meant to be simple even if that means dropping a few features. But for $19.95 for Blocks and $39.95 for RapidWeaver it's a few hundred dollars cheaper too.

Give it some time. You really can do some great things with Blocks.

Isaiah

Developer of Blocks

YourHead Software  
(Version 2.3)

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Feb 26 2007

ORION MK. V  Right there with you Isaiah. Blocks is affordable and powerful and greatly enhances RW.

People wanting more absolute control/power should drop serious cash and get Dreamweaver or GoLive -- or Freeway if they don't like coding.  
(Version 2.3.1)

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Feb 26 2007

MACLOVER1.1  I got all of those LoL And I'm back to Freeway when not using Flash. I still find RW to be cute :-)  
(Version 2.3.1)

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May 29 2006
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SIBELIUS  Great plug-in - so good, in fact, it should have been part of the application in the first place. The drag-and-drop positioning for text + images gives you much more scope for creative page layouts and it's really easy to use - with an interface that's clear and simple and consistent with the latest apps from Apple (+ others).

It's not always spot on for WYSIWYG layouts, and you can't import movies yet. (A major omission.) Otherwise it's close to perfect - and virtually essential if you want to get the most out of Rapidweaver without becoming a web expert.  
(Version 1.2.2U)

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Apr 24 2006
*****

WILLIAM25  TERRIFIC. WYSIWYG. Very easy to use, really expands Rapid Weaver's capabilities and for such a very small price. I highly recommend this software along with the other plug-ins named Collage and Columns.  
(Version 1.2)

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