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)

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)

YOURHEAD  Well, we've fixed one out of three. Hope that's a start.  
(Version 1.5)

YOURHEAD  Hi,

I'm the developer and I'd like to comment on the Free --> Not so Free transition of this plugin. And no, I don't delete posts, that's just petty.

Everything that was free in version 1.0 continues to be free today, and will be free indefinitely. I encourage you to use those features without paying. As I said before, they were so simple that I just couldn't charge.

That said, I've now added a lot more to this plugin based on some really great user feedback. There's many nights and weekends and much sleep lost invested in making it great just for you. And for that I've asked for $7.95.

But if you don't want to pay, can't afford to pay, or just liked 1.0 the way it was -- then please continue to use it freely.

Have a better one,

Isaiah  
(Version 1.2.2)