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RapidWeaver 3.5
RapidWeaver 3.5, the theme based website creator, has just been released by Realmac Software. This release is a Universal Binary, and includes new themes, CSS based photo galleries, 'feature rich blogging,' and SFTP support. The price has gone up slightly from $34.95 to $39.95
Thanks to all who sent this in.
Correction: I incorrectly said that you can edit HTML in RapidWeaver's new code view. Sadly, you can only view the code (and check for validation errors). Thanks to Tom for pointing this out.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
b352 said 12:09PM on 6-02-2006
It's a public beta 1 of version 3.5
some last minute changes.....
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Nate Orloff said 12:21PM on 6-02-2006
RapidWeaver is AMAZING stoftware.
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ron said 12:25PM on 6-02-2006
> This release also includes the ability to directly edit the HTML code
No it doesn't.
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Paul-Michael Bauer said 12:40PM on 6-02-2006
>> This release also includes the ability to directly edit the HTML code
> No it doesn't.
Yes, it does.
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Paul-Michael Bauer said 12:42PM on 6-02-2006
Sorry...here's the link (it got removed)
www.realmacsoftware.com/rapidweaver/advancedfeatures.php
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Isaiah said 12:55PM on 6-02-2006
YourHead Software and Loghound software are both running a promotion for RapidWeaver plugins:
35 hours of 35% off for RapidWeaver 3.5
check it out:
http://www.yourhead.com
http://www.loghound.com
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Isaiah said 12:56PM on 6-02-2006
There is no editing. Just viewing.
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ron said 1:08PM on 6-02-2006
I do not believe the developers ever intended for direct editing of the HTML code. That would go against the whole concept of the application, plus it would be impossible to remove such a feature if it was never included in the first place.
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ron said 1:11PM on 6-02-2006
Actually, my name is Ron, not Tim. And from my point of view, this isn't a sad bit of news, at least not when you understand the way RapidWeaver works.
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sheep said 1:12PM on 6-02-2006
To clear this up, you cannot edit code created by rapidweaver, but you can add code of your own in the code view.
Thats seems pretty dumb to me, but it's still miles ahead of programs like sandvox or iweb as far as I'm concerned.
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Scott McNulty said 1:14PM on 6-02-2006
Ron, Tim sent an email directly to me pointing out the error (before I had a chance to look at comments), so he gets the thanks.
I think it is always sad when I can't get at the code directly, but I am probably not the RapidWeaver target market. ;)
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Michael May said 1:27PM on 6-02-2006
sheep, in sandvox you can add html sections with the pro version (which allows for very good flexibility)
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ron said 1:39PM on 6-02-2006
Ohhh, you are referring to Tom Beardmore. I think you need to make a correction to your correction because you are still not crediting the write person.
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Scott McNulty said 1:43PM on 6-02-2006
Damn vowels! I corrected it, thanks ron.
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Nik Fletcher said 1:52PM on 6-02-2006
Michael May,
It's not that you cannot enter HTML (hell, the new HTML page allows you an absolutely blank page should you require it!), it more that you cannot modify the ouput within the app - something Sandvox can't do.
Both Sandvox Pro and Rapidweaver have an almost identical feature set. Too bad Sandvox is almost twice the price I guess ;)
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Nik Fletcher said 1:55PM on 6-02-2006
One thing I forgot to mention is that you can also enter HTML pretty much anywhere within RapidWeaver :)
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Isaiah said 2:07PM on 6-02-2006
You can even blog in HTML if you want. Sometimes it's cool to just throw in a few tags to get an unordered list, right in the middle of a bunch of Rich Text.
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Jeff said 2:26PM on 6-02-2006
The new themes suck balls. Rapidweaver's failed attempt to be more like iWeb
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tom stringer said 5:13PM on 6-02-2006
well they did well out of me today , upgraded and bought the flickr add on which does not work with live updates on .Crap , so bought some hosting with Macdock.
:) soon to be a very happy user
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NL said 6:59PM on 6-02-2006
I tried RapidWeaver. I liked it for what it was, but it's not for me. There is still no HTML/CSS editor for those who know coding but just need a leg up from the monotony short of the bloated Dreamweaver... at least that I know of. I'm still using Taco HTML because of its snippets feature.
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