![]() Like you, I find most RapidWeaver themes not to my liking. You'll find other RapidWeaver themes that do include navigation to be a lot better suited for the job. This may be OK for a one-page or two-page site, but for more elaborare sites, BlocksBox is inadequate. For example, you get no navigation-you'd have to built it yourself. You can try the BlocksBox no-theme theme in conjunction with the Blocks plug-in, but then, an entirely new set of problems crops up. Perhaps I have no patience for the time investment required for it. All in all, if I total the price I paid for RapidWeaver, the several plug-ins in order to overcome the numerous, serious limitations of the app, as well as the countless extra, 3rd-party themes, I could have paid for DreamWeaver plus a week's worth of classroom training for it.Īnd because the grass is not always greener on the other side, I have tried 3 different trial versions of DreamWeaver and have found it to be an incredibly difficult app to master. Needless to say, I am not happy with having just one theme available to use in RapidWeaver, so I purchased several others from 3rd parties. Most of the time I'd have to also do some CSS code editing to tell the theme that my graphic's dimensions are different that the ones of the default graphic it's replacing. Even though drag-and-drop is not an option in RapidWeaver (a serious flaw in my opinion) I'd replace the header graphic in Finder with something I'd have created. This leaves just one theme that I like *and* is customizable: the ”Tiger Pop“ theme. ![]() ![]() From the ones I do like (they can be counted on the fingers of one hand) most have non-customizable headers. ![]() You can try the BlocksBox “no-theme” theme in conjunction with the Blocks plug-in, but then, an entirely new set of problems crops up. However, neither Blocks nor any other plug-in will help you with the header portion of a web page, which cannot be modified via drag and drop-only with Finder-level (or by using yet another 3rd party utility) replacement of a theme's default (and useless to most users) graphic. The YourHead plug-ins are indispensable, and in my opinion, RapidWeaver is totally useless without the Blocks plug-in. Incredibly, none of the RapidWeaver experts in the app's support forums want to admit it is the single most serious limitation of the app or recognize it as poor design. Unfortunately, after 4 versions and countless updates, RapidWeaver has not delivered. Of course, I am also more familiar with a Mac now than I was when I last looked at RapidWeaver so I might give it another try sometime.What you are asking is exactly what most reasonable people want from RapidWeaver. To conclude, with about the same amount of effort, the sites that I was able to create with RapidWeaver were rather clunky and unsatisfactory, while I have been pleased with my results from Sandvox. Plus, Sandvox now has an active and helpful support forum, although most of the helpful support comes from staff members rather than other users. Recently, I bought Sandvox and, although I had a few problems, their tech support was able to talk me through them in short order. I understand that some very nice sites have been created with RapidWeaver, but the learning curve was higher than I could afford. However, without spending a large amount of time trying to figure it out, I wasn't able to create anything in RapidWeaver that didn't look clunky, or like something that was created by an online web authoring program. After switching to a Mac at about the same time this thread was current, I looked over both RapidWeaver and Sandvox and decided to buy RapidWeaver, along with some of the add-ons to it, such as blocks and some others. I know this is a very old thread but I came across it on a Google search and wondered whether the collective opinions of those here might have changed.
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