Realmac Software maintains a deep, robust, and thriving repository of add-ons created and reviewed by enthusiastic RapidWeaver users. If you want to exercise more of your own creativity with RapidWeaver, prepare to pay more than the basic program’s $80ish price tag. Even then, my upload failed the first time because of “missing files,” though a subsequent attempt worked just fine. I was mere moments away from sending Realmac a help email-after following the excellent directions on their comprehensive online support site-when a lucky glance through the Console logs they’d asked me to send helped me figure out that I’d slipped in a “/” to the directory path that shouldn’t be there. Even after the “test connection” button gave me the all clear, my site would still fail to upload.
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RapidWeaver’s FTP support also required some trial and error. Though it’s slightly finicky, RapidWeaver’s built-in FTP capabilities add to its convenience. I ultimately pieced together a small but appealing site in roughly an hour. Once you give up any hope of making your site look like anything other than what your chosen theme’s designer intended, RapidWeaver gets a lot easier to work with. But that’s about the limit of your ability to customize the text or how it appears.
RapidWeaver gets points for augmenting its basic text styling abilities with bullet-pointed and numbered lists-a surprisingly rare feature in modern Web editors-and the ability to determine whether any images you drag and drop into your layout will align left or right. RapidWeaver doesn’t offer WYSIWYG editing – you can look at how your site will appear online, but you can’t make changes in that view. And while taking away the styling does allow you to concentrate on the substance of your site, I quickly tired of having to flip between modes to get even a rough idea of how my changes would actually look. This works better for some page types, such as blogs and contact forms, than for others like basic styled text. You make changes in the former, then click the adjacent tab to see the results in the latter. RapidWeaver makes the odd decision to keep its edit and preview modes separate. And beyond adding or removing sidebars, you have very little control over the layout of individual pages. In some themes, you can’t change fonts, while others only offer a handful of different options. But you can’t easily replace those stock images with one of your own. To its credit, RapidWeaver’s Master Styles settings let you tweak each design’s colors and font sizes, and sometimes cycle between different preset header images.
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