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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

About the Reviewers

Gilberto De Faveri is the lead Cocoa developer at Omnidea, which he co-founded in 2006. Omnidea is the company behind RapidCart, RapidMaps, and many other popular RapidWeaver plugins and Mac utilities. He loves late-night coding sessions and Trappist beer, not in this order.

Will Woodgate originally trained as a hydrologist, and graduated from university in 2006 with a degree in environmental science. It was while Will was putting together a website for a water resources project, that he discovered RapidWeaver. A short time later, Will was busy developing new RapidWeaver themes and offering these designs free via forums for others to use, in hobby form.

In late 2007, the ‘ThemeFlood’ website was opened, and theme development grew to become a fulltime business. Not only does Will now provide a number of innovative off-the-shelf RapidWeaver themes, but he has since diversified into developing custom RapidWeaver themes and stacks. Alongside working in partnership with other RapidWeaver developers and documenting several plugins, Will also maintains his own blog with many topics on RapidWeaver (http://www.willwoodgate.com/).