![]() Rather than presenting you with a redundant screen confirming your FTP or. So what's new in version 4? The actual process of publishing, for one thing. (For our money, uploading via FTP is simpler than Apple's approach with iWeb, as although Apple's way lets you point your own domain name at your iDisk Sites folder – saving the cost of a hosting provider – FTP is more widely used and gives you the option of choosing a provider that supports PHP.) When you're all done, just click Publish and it will send everything up to your iDisk or onto a proper, grown-up FTP server. The list in effectively infinite RapidWeaver gives you a clever system for altering all sorts of colours used in the theme, and many have other configurable options such as setting the theme width and sidebar position.īest of all, though, is that all these themes are just defined by standard CSS files, so you can tinker with the supplied themes – gaining transferrable skills as you do – or even create your own completely from scratch using Realmac Software's Theme SDK. RapidWeaver comes with over 40 visual styles – called themes – that you can add to your site. In the edit mode you can just type some stuff into text pages, and there's tight integration with iLife and core Mac technologies so that you can pop up an 'iMedia Browser' to find and copy content from iMovie, Safari, iTunes and iPhoto indeed, creating online galleries from iPhoto albums is as simple as selecting the album you want to share and entering some captions. Once you've got your pages – you can nest them infinitely deep by dragging and dropping them on top of each other RapidWeaver will create all the links and navigation for you automatically – you just need to enter some content. ![]() There is a wide range of page types available – everything from word processor-like Style Text pages to photo galleries, movie showreels and regularly updated blog pages – and a thriving ecosystem of third-party developers is dedicated to creating plug-ins that allow you to add even more different page types Blocks from gives you iWeb-like flexibility in placing content anywhere you like on a page, and Lockdown from lets you create pages that are password-protected. ![]() The first step in creating a site when you launch RapidWeaver is to add some pages. As you learn, RapidWeaver lets you use that knowledge to create more interesting and rich websites.
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