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Review: RapidWeaver 6

Mar 3 2015 6:00PM EST | Source: MacLife.com

RapidWeaver takes an old-school approach to web design, having you choose a theme, build pages on your Mac, and then publish the lot to the web. It offers 52 templates to choose from, five of which are new to this version and “responsive” to accommodate tablets and smartphones. The new themes are quite swish, if not entirely robust across browsers.

Themes can be tweaked, created from scratch if you’ve the coding skills, or bought in from elsewhere. Creating pages requires you to choose from pre-defined types and then use the in-context editing pane. This is intuitive and usable, for example giving you form labels and input types for a contact page, which RapidWeaver then stitches together. New to this version is a Markdown plug-in, making it quick to create structured text-oriented pages, though the “styled text” plug-in option fared poorly during testing, leaving us with a mess of element types. The gallery page type remains disappointing.

The app has had a smart, coherent UI refresh, and a new add-on manager enables you to organize installed themes and plug-ins, and site-wide code support for HTML, CSS and JavaScript makes it easy to add site-wide custom code, publishing is faster (as is the whole app). The preview now has presents for iOS, but is still frustrating, forcing you to flip back and forth from edit to preview, rather than seeing both at once.

The bottom line. A quite-nice update to a quite-nice app, but while we want to love it, we only like it.

Review Synopsis

Product: 

RapidWeaver 6.0.3

Company: 

Realmac Software

Price: 

$89.99 (upgrade $39.99)

Requirements: 

Mac running OS X 10.10 or later, Intel 64-bit processor

Positives: 

Handy Markdown page option. Faster and nicer to use.

Negatives: 

Preview system remains awkard to use. Galleries are still unimpressive.


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