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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 Blog page


Right now we are going to go ahead and create our first blog page. You can continue to add to the existing RapidWeaver project file that we have been using throughout the book.

  1. Add a new Blog page to your RapidWeaver project.

  2. Click on the [+] button on the middle toolbar to create a new blog entry.

  3. Give your blog entry a title and type in some content. Remember that this is a Styled Text area, so you can drag in some images and do formatting as well.

  4. Type in a category for your blog post.

  5. Type in a couple of different tags for keywords about your post.

  6. Add a permalink. This is usually worded similarly as your post title with the spaces being substituted for dashes.

  7. Go ahead and add one or two more blog posts. Make sure to change the date of the posts so that you can see how the Blog page deals with posts from different months and/or years.

  8. Preview your web page!

What just happened?

We just created our first blog page in RapidWeaver! You will notice that RapidWeaver...