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RapidWeaver 5 Beginner's Guide

By : Joe Workman
Book Image

RapidWeaver 5 Beginner's Guide

By: Joe Workman

Overview of this book

<p>RapidWeaver allows users with any level of expertise to build beautiful and professional looking websites. The novice user will love the drag and drop, what you see is what you get interface. The advanced users will love that they can get down and dirty with some code when they need to. <br /> <br /> This book covers all aspects of developing a website with RapidWeaver. Whether you want a family website to display photos from your latest vacation or a small business that is looking to increase your web presence, this book has got you covered. If you have a Mac and want a website, you need this book. <br /> <br /> This book dives into all the components required to build a website with RapidWeaver. The first half of this book builds upon itself and shows you all of the basic building blocks that you will need to develop great websites. It starts off with a basic tour of RapidWeaver and gets you building your first webpage in the first chapter. The book progresses onto how to customize the look and feel of your website with themes and adding simple webpages with text and images all the way to blogs and photo galleries.</p> <p>The second half of the book dives into more advanced topics that can really help you take your websites to the next level. This includes e-commerce, blogs, managing web content outside of RapidWeaver, Search Engine Optimization and even a little programming. By the end of this book, you will have a solid foundation that will allow you to build powerful websites.&nbsp;</p>
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
RapidWeaver 5 Beginner’s Guide
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Time for action – creating a RapidBlog page


We are going to go ahead and do a really quick exercise by adding a new RapidBlog page and then importng our blog posts that we created in our last exercise. You are going to want to make sure that you use the same RapidWeaver project that you were using earlier in this chapter.

  1. Go download and install RapidBlog is you have not done so yet. You can get it from http://loghound.com/rapidblog.

  2. Add a new RapidBlog page to your RapidWeaver project.

  3. Navigate to the Import tab in Page Inspector.

  4. Select your Blog page from the drop-down list, and click on the Import button.

  5. Click OK, on the confirmation window that will pop up.

  6. You should now see all of your posts from your Blog page inside RapidBlog.

  7. Preview your new RapidBlog page.

What just happened?

We very easily imported all the blog posts that we had created in our last exercise into RapidBlog. For the most part, things look very similar to the Blog page. There is a permalink added to the subtitle row for...