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All About RapidWeaver

RapidWeaver from Realmac Software is an award winning website design application for the Mac. RapidWeaver is very user friendly and easy to use, allowing creation of beautiful websites in minutes.

Check out some of the ScreenCastsOnline tutorials below for a quick visual overview of RapidWeaver in action, and then have a look at some of the thrid party themes and plugins to get an idea of just how quick and easy it is to create great looking websites with RapidWeaver.

RapidWeaver Related Links

The following list of links will help you get a better idea of what RapidWeaver is all about.

If you're not a RapidWeaver user already and are a Mac OS X user, why not give it a spin? You'll be amazed at how easy it is to get a great looking website up and running in no time.

RapidWeaver: The main RapidWeaver product page.

From here check out RapidWeaver's features, screenshots and other resources.

You can of course download the RapidWeaver trial from this page, and buy it too.
RapidWeaver Forums: The Realmac Software support forums are superb. There's a great bunch of people there always willing to help.
Realmac Software Addons: Visit the Realmac Software Addons area for all the newest addons for RapidWeaver.

Realmac Software - Blog

The following items are from the Realmac Software blog feed.

Tutorials

The following ScreenCastsOnline movies are a nice introduction to RapidWeaver.

Once you've downloaded RapidWeaver you'll no doubt find the RapidWeaver FAQ's and Tutorials section of the Realmac Software forums a good source of tips and tricks.

ScreenCastsOnline - RapidWeaver Part 1: A superb screen cast movie introduction to RapidWeaver showing how easy it is to get a great looking website built in just a few minutes.

Topics covered:
Styled Text Pages
Photo Album Pages
Themes
Publishing to .Mac or via FTP
ScreenCastsOnline - RapidWeaver Part 2: In this second part of ScreenCastsOnline's look at RapidWeaver, Don McAllister digs deeper into the delights of RapidWeaver.

Topics covered:
Quick recap of part 1
Preview site in external web browser
Creating a blog page
Enabling a RSS feed
Uploading a Podcast

Please read the forum post pointed to from the show notes for updated information and corrections.
ScreenCastsOnline - Rapidweaver Part 3: In this third part of ScreenCastsOnline's look at RapidWeaver, Don McAllister takes a brief look at some of the available page styles in RapidWeaver.

Page styles covered:
Contact Form
File Sharing
HTML Code
iFrame
Movie Album
ScreenCastsOnline - RapidWeaver Plugins: In ScreenCastsOnline's look at RapidWeaver plugins, Don McAllister demos three plugins available from Your Head Software.

Topics covered:
Columns plugin
Collage plugin
Blocks plugin
Installing plugins
ScreenCastsOnline - Rapidweaver Plugins Part 2: Don shows us Your Head Software's Accordian plugin, and version 2 of their Blocks plugin, which can include other pages as blocks in your page!
ScreenCastsOnline - RapidWeaver 3.5 Upgrade: A really nice summary of some of the most important new features added to RapidWeaver 3.5.

It's nice and short, well worth watching.
ScreenCastsOnline - RapidWeaver 3.6 Update: Don does it again! Another nice review of the changes to be found in RapidWeaver 3.6.

The show covers:

* Changes to the UI
* New Site and Page Inspectors
* New Theme Styles and Colour Pickers
* New Categories and Tags within Blog pages
* New InLine Comments within Blog Pages
* Signing up to HaloScan
* Enhancements to the Photo Album Pages
* Displaying EXIF data
* New Photo Slideshow Visual Effects
* Adding Sound to SlideShows
* Snippets
* HTML List Formats
* RapidWeaver Add-Ons
All RapidWeaver shows at ScreenCastsOnline: This page lists all the RapidWeaver related shows at ScreenCastsOnline.
RapidWeaver FAQ's & Tutorials forum: Check out the FAQ's & Tutorials section of the RapidWeaver forums for many tutorials, tips and tricks.
YourHead Video Podcast: If you've got any of YourHead Software's plugins, or are thinking of using them, check out the YourHead Video Podcast.

The YourHead Video Podcasts are short tutorial videos that show you how to use different aspects of YourHead's plugins. You might even pick up the odd tip or two related to using RapidWeaver as well.

Third Party Themes

On the following alphabetical list of sites you'll find RapidWeaver Themes that you can download for free or a fee and install to jazz up your site.

There are some great themes available from these sites and new ones popping up every week. Don't just settle for the included RapidWeaver Themes (as good as they are), try some of the very imaginative themes you can find from these links.

If you're a RapidWeaver Theme developer and would like to be included in this list please contact me.

Bench Design: RapidWeaver Theme Park
Blueball Design: Quality RapidWeaver Themes
Bonsai Studio: The Bonsai Studio RapidWeaver themes
Butella.net: RapidWeaver Themes and tips.
Charcoal on the Wall: Preview RapidWeaver themes by a variety of developers
Dave Cantù Design: RapidWeaver Themes by Dave Cantù Design
Elixir Graphics: RapidWeaver Themes
Joern Luetgen: RapidWeaver Themes
JoshLockhart.com: Professional Custom RapidWeaver Themes
Med Designs: RapidWeaver Themes
MultiThemes: RapidWeaver Themes
MyRWThemes: A collection of RapidWeaver themes.

(Nothing to do with me!)
NewEnding Studios: New RapidWeaver Themes: Create websites with ease and style.

Also offers free templates for budding Style designers to get started with at http://newending.com/rapidweaver_themes/downloads/downloads.html
Pioneer Themes: RapidWeaver Themes
Rapid Ideas: fresh ideas and designs for RapidWeaver
rapidweaverthemes.com: The Original RapidWeaverThemes Site.
seyDesigns: RapidWeaver Themes by seyDoggy
Theme Different: "Our goal is to make this site the largest resource for free Rapidweaver themes".
Theme Weaver: "Maximize the impact of your website with RapidWeaver themes by THEME WEAVER".
Vortex Themes: "Designed for success".

Third Party Plugins (Page Styles)

RapidWeaver Plugins add new page styles to RapidWeaver, extending the functionality of RapidWeaver.

Check out the following alphabetical list of links for some great RapidWeaver Plugins.

My favourite? Collage by YourHead Software followed closely by SiteMap by LogHound. You can see how I use these two plugins on my business site's home page and site map.

Datalore: Plugins...
MapIt - Google Maps.
imacomino: Plugins...
SimpleViewer - A flash based image viewer.

SimpleViewer - A rather snazzy flash based picture viewer with intelligent loading and full keyboard navigation.
Josh Lockhart: Plugins...
RapidSearch - Search via Yahoo!.
http://www.joshlockhart.com/rapidsearch/rapidsearch.php
LogHound.com: Plugins...
Lockdown - Password protect a page and it's children with multiple logins, even send an email every time someone logs in!
You web host must support PHP for this plugin to work, and .htaccess files, so please test the plugin before purchasing. This plugin will not work on a .Mac account.

PlusKit - "PlusKit makes all of your stuff better".

Rapidblog - "Blog anywhere, with Rapidblog".

rapidflickr - Show photos from flickr.com.

SiteMap - Super easy SiteMap page.
This plugin gives you the ability to add a Site Map page to your site as well as generate a page specifically for submitting to a search engine.
There are different forms of site map such as Tree, Alphabetical or Category, and you can add descriptions to each page too.
Nilrog's Place: Plugins...
High Light - display nicely formatted sourcecode on your site.
Objective Development: Plugins...
WebYep - The Shiny Tiny WebCMS
André Pang: Plugins...
Markup Plugin - Enter text in a number of markup styles.
Christian Plessl: Plugins...
Markdown Plugin - Markdown page style.
Eike Preuß: Plugins...
PageTOC - Create table of contents from HTML headings.
Benoît Widemann: Plugins...
RapidCal - "The Calendar Plugin for RapidWeaver".

RapidScript - Build web pages using AppleScript.
Vortex Themes: Plugins...
RapidRestore - Backup and restore RapidWeaver preferences, themes and serial numbers (including third party page styles).
YourHead: The first commercial plugin developer for RapidWeaver.

Plugins...
Accordian - A super smooth collapsing and expanding page, click a headline to see it's content, collapsing other content. Pretty good for FAQs etc.

Blocks - Allows you to place blocks of text, graphics, and even raw HTML onto your page wherever you like. Drag blocks around, resize, and even overlap content.

Carousel - "Make your pictures move".

Collage - Beautiful pictorial links page with optional rounded borders and reflections. You can also add styled text above and below the tabe of images.

Columns - Split content over two columns.

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