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RapidWeaver 5 Beginner's Guide

By : Joe Workman
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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

Creating a blog with RapidWeaver's Blog page


RapidWeaver's out-of-the-box blog page type is called Blog. The Blog page type allows you to manage your blog posts on travel, business, your deep intellectual thoughts, and whatever else you want to tell the world about. The Blog page even lets you host and manage a full-featured video or audio podcast.

Adding blog posts

When you add a new Blog page to your RapidWeaver project, you will be presented with an interface that is very similar to some of the other page plugins that we have seen. The top portion is a list of all your existing blog posts. The bottom portion of the page is where you place the post content. Lastly, the right-hand side pane contains all the attributes for your blog posts.

To create a new entry in your blog, simply click on the [+] button located below the blog entry list. Once your post has been added, you can proceed to creating the content for your blog post. The content for each blog post is done in Styled Text. As you...