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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 – getting to know the settings


Let's go ahead and fix a couple of lingering issues from our first exercise. We are going to adjust some of the settings that we just learned about, in order to make the page layout a little nicer. We are going to be using the same exact project file and Stacks page that we built earlier in this chapter.

  1. Select the Read More Paragraph stack, which we added to the page by clicking on it. You will see a blue outline around it when it's been selected.

  2. In the settings pane on the right-hand side, check the Detailed Margin box inside the Layout settings. Now set the Top Margin setting to be 20 px.

  3. Repeat the same process and change the top margin of the 2 Column stack to also be 20 px.

  4. Now select the Quote stack, and select the background type to be Tiled Image.

  5. Open the Stack Media library and drag one of the colored image tiles into the background image control. I recommend the third blue tile image as it's light in color. This will make sure that the...