RapidWeaver is a next-generation Web design application to help you easily create professional-looking Web sites in minutes. No knowledge of complex code is required, RapidWeaver will take care of all that for you. RapidWeaver produces valid XHTML- and CSS-based websites.
One of the perks about using RapidWeaver is that it has a strong custom theme community. You can download themes and edit them from within RapidWeaver and the result is a pretty slick-looking website that takes very little effort.
RapidWeaver also has a lot of custom plug-ins. Some of them make it easier to edit images directly in
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Version 7.0.4
Note: RGBA support for theme colours is now supported by using this new key "RWSupportsAlphaInColours" within the "RWThemeCapabilities" dictionary.
- Fixed a rather nasty memory leak that was introduced in 7.0.3
- Fixed an issue where the in-built preview didn't work under macOS 10.12 Sierra
- Fixed an issue that sometimes corrupted plugins when
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RapidWeaver is a next-generation Web design application to help you easily create professional-looking Web sites in minutes. No knowledge of complex code is required, RapidWeaver will take care of all that for you. RapidWeaver produces valid XHTML- and CSS-based websites.
One of the perks about using RapidWeaver is that it has a strong custom theme community. You can download themes and edit them from within RapidWeaver and the result is a pretty slick-looking website that takes very little effort.
RapidWeaver also has a lot of custom plug-ins. Some of them make it easier to edit images directly in RapidWeaver. Others make creating a site map a matter of a few clicks. The supportive community that surrounds RapidWeaver is really what makes this great app superior to other WYSIWYG website creation tools. Be sure to check out YourHead.com for some little tools to help spice up your website in RapidWeaver.
Version 7.0.4
Note: RGBA support for theme colours is now supported by using this new key "RWSupportsAlphaInColours" within the "RWThemeCapabilities" dictionary.
- Fixed a rather nasty memory leak that was introduced in 7.0.3
- Fixed an issue where the in-built preview didn't work under macOS 10.12 Sierra
- Fixed an issue that sometimes corrupted plugins when moving the addons folder.
- Fixed some publishing issues.
- Fixed exception on export issue (this was caused by users not entering a header name!)
- Deleting themes from the Theme Browser now works
- Site and Page meta tag output is no longer duplicated
- Duplicating page no longer gives issues on Preview
- Directory listing now works when browsing via SFTP
- Server Path is now cleared when changing publishing type to local folder
- Duplicating themes now duplicates theme styles also!
- Fixed a whole bunch of issues with FTPS
- Fixed a publishing issue relating to bookmarks
- Blog plugin now generates correctly URL's for podcasts.
- Cache busting no longer breaks when using protocol-less URLs
- Fixed an issue with lists in the style text plugin.
I like RapidWeaver, I really do. But I don't like version 6. In fact, I don't use even version 6; it has demonstrated a history of having too many problems. I don't think that it is be ready for prime time, as the litany of complaints at the Realmac Software forum testifies. Many customers are unhappy with version 6; few professional web masters are able to put their confidence in version 6, when their businesses depend on it. That's sad, but true.
Regrettably, the program was released way before it was thoroughly tested and found to be free of major errors. Even now, the release notes show fixes to errors that don't occur in version 5, which begs the question of how the program was coded and "upgraded."
For instance, one of the "What's New" changes / updates to version 6.36 is:
"Fixes a problem where dragging sidebar items between documents could cause RapidWeaver to crash".
I find that both interesting and appalling, since, in version 5, I don't recall the program ever crashing when I copied a page from one website project to another. Maybe version 6 was rebuilt from scratch so that code which had worked earlier in version 5 was no longer usable in version 6. I don't really care. What I do care about is reliability, and version 6 has proved to be so flaky in so many ways that I would advise caution in implementing it.
I am not saying you should not buy and use RapidWeaver. On the contrary, you should. It has been offered in many bundles at a great discount for many months, so you should get it. Someday, when version 6 seems stable enough and reliable enough to use, I may actually migrate from version 5 to version. But not yet. Not when it still reveals bugs that should never be showing up in a upgrade at all, since they did not exist before.
As for the built-in function in both version 5 and version 6, I recommend avoiding it completely. Use a third-party FTP application like Transmit, ForkLift, or Interarchy, or you'll be sorry. More details are at the RealMac Software forum.
I am a long time RW user since Ver.3. I had been using RW 5 for a long long time. I paid for RW6 upgrade right away when it's released just to support them. But I had to wait for my essential plugins were updated for RW6 so long. I finally switched to RW last fall (2015) then it's already the time for RW7? I seriously think that this could be a Ver. 6.5 just because I don't feel Ver. 6 was matured enough. Do I have to worry about the compatibilities for all of my plugins and themes and the cost for upgrading them all? Realmac Software could have asked half the price for the 0.5 version upgrade if they needed little more money to continue developing. I would be hugely disappointed if they stop fixing the bugs on Ver.6. At least they should release a solid Ver 6.5 before they stop the maintenance, I hope.
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