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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

Time for action - linking to a file download


Let's go ahead and add a link to a file download. We will be doing this via a RapidWeaver resource as this is now the recommended method.

  1. Add a file to your project resources by dragging it in. This could be a file of any type. A ZIP file could be a good choice for this example.

  2. Add the following text below the links that we created earlier in this chapter: File Download.

  3. Select the text and add a link. Browse and locate the resource that you just added.

  4. Preview your web page.

What just happened?

We have now added a link to a file so that our visitors can easily download it. In order for you to test the actual file download, you will need to publish your site. I am sure you noticed that downloading a file is nothing hard, it's just like adding a link. If you did not want to use RapidWeaver resources to link to your download, you could simply provide a URL link to wherever you wanted to store the file. Perhaps the file is stored on Dropbox or Amazon...