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RapidWeaver is a website creation and management application designed exclusively for the Mac. It has been around far longer than the current competitors, iWeb and Sandvox, and is an elegant and fun way to start a website. RapidWeaver gives you the power to blog, podcast, share photos, movies, and files, keep in touch, and exercise your creative freedom. With plenty of beautiful themes and innovative plugins adding awesome features, RapidWeaver is the mature solution to creating and maintaining websites on your Mac.
Download RapidWeaver here.
Be sure to enter to win one of three copies of RapidWeaver on the site here.
RapidWeaver 3.6 should be released early this summer. Check out the RealMac blog for updates on new features and release status.
April 30th, 2007 at 11:50 pm
RapidWeaver is a Great piece of software for building web sites. Extendable, Flexible and Powerful. The Forum Community is the Best support system - Hands Down!
If you pop over to my site you will see the Blocks Plug-in on my Home page, the RapidBlog Plug-in on my Blog page (works with the new Blogger) and on my Free Files page the Collage Plug-in.
A link at the bottom of the page goes to another site I am developing and the Splash page there is the Carousel Plug-in.
A Fantastic App! I recommend you give it a try!
May 1st, 2007 at 12:38 pm
It’s good to point out that there are several other plugins available. I’ve used Collage and Columns extensively, but haven’t used any of the others you mentioned above.
May 10th, 2007 at 1:19 pm
I know plenty who uses RW professionally, cause its so easy to use that anyone in a short while can learn to update content on a site you set up for them. So you easily gets rid of webmaster bottlenecks.
It’s also very expandable with plugs and works well with integrating forums and other PHP stuff.
I dropped advanced CMS systems and use RW for all my sites now, it saves me a lot of time and RealMacsoftware uses a lot of energi improving RW. To me iWeb and Sandvox don’t even come close - I’m a user and a fan
May 25th, 2007 at 7:01 pm
June 2nd, 2007 at 6:27 am
I personly HATE rapid-weaver but nive podcast! Keep em podcasts a comin!
January 21st, 2008 at 1:37 pm
My first experience with RW wasn’t “fun”. It really needs a true WYSIWYG interface. The idea of switching between a totally unintuitive edit screen where you drop in elements and change their parameters with absolutely no visual feedback and then toggle to a separate preview screen to check the effects of your changes is so unMac-like it boggles the mind that this software ever came from Mac enthusiasts. I need control over the layout, and I expect a GUI that works the same way other Mac apps do. Not this.
January 21st, 2008 at 9:18 pm
I agree with the need for a WYSIWG interface. However, I don’t find it completely hindering to my workflow and I’m okay with it. I like the way that iWeb and such works in this respect, but I throw my weight behind Rapidweaver because of its maturity and feature set.