RapidWeaver 4.3

RapidWeaver 4.3 is an advanced web design application to help you easily create professional looking web sites in minutes. No knowledge of complex code is required, RapidWeaver will take care of all that for you. RapidWeaver now produces 100% XHTML & CSS based websites.

With powerful tools under the hood, yet a beautifully-familiar user interface built especially for Mac OS X Leopard. Whether it's your first or five-hundreth website, RapidWeaver has all the tools you need to quickly create pages you'll be proud of.

Whether you’re wanting to create a personal blog or podcast, a Photo Album of a new family arrival built directly from your iPhoto library or a sleek new site for your business, RapidWeaver’s ten built-in page types are the best toolkit you could ask for when it comes to building your next website.

RapidWeaver takes the pain out of publishing your site, supporting almost every webhost around thanks to its built-in support for FTP, SFTP and MobileMe (with Personal Domains). RapidWeaver is exclusive to the Mac, and it makes use of all the great new technologies Mac OS X has to offer. RapidWeaver 4.3 takes full advantage of Leopard technologies, including Core Animation and Quick Look as well as integrating with iLife.

Major Features:

1. Beautiful Code. Beautiful Sites. RapidWeaver creates clean, beautiful code that adheres to modern web standards. But don't worry if you’re not versed in XHTML or CSS - you don't have to know any code to get started with RapidWeaver. If you are a code guru, however, you'll love the ability to place HTML, PHP or CSS code throughout the application should you wish.
2. Powerful Plugins: RapidWeaver ships with 10 powerful page types: we're showing off just two here, so be sure to try the entire set for yourself! The Photo Album page integrates with iPhoto, and with just a couple of clicks allows you to bring your favourite photos into your site. All you need to decide is whether to build a beautiful HTML gallery and or slick Flash slideshow! RapidWeaver's powerful built-in blog page allows you to easily add a blog to your website: permalinks, tagging and categories included (of course). With full support for podcasting (and iTunes enclosures), you can get your podcast online with a minimum of fuss.
3. Handy Little Touches: As you'd expect of a best-in-class Mac OS X application, RapidWeaver includes a number of handy little touches to make your site stand out. Drag-and-drop simplicity allows you to easily add a favicon and iPhone WebClip icon for stylish user bookmarking. If you use Google's free Analytics website statistics service, you can simply enter the supplied tracking code into RapidWeaver and it's automatically applied to all the pages in your project.
4. Publishing Perfection: As well as super-smart publishing that only uploads site files that have changed, RapidWeaver also includes One-Click publishing to ensure it's super-easy to publish the latest version of your site. As well as FTP publishing, you can also use RapidWeaver to publish to Apple's MobileMe service and personalise your site even more thanks to personal domain name support!
5. Text & Code, Side-by-Side: Snippets allow you store and quickly access frequently used portions of code. Whether you want to edit your page's content using the powerful styled text options or want to place portions of HTML and PHP on your site, RapidWeaver can handle it. Drop a few images from the built-in iLife media browser, throw in some Google Ads and before you know it, you're getting the best of both worlds! To help you make the most of RapidWeaver's text-and-code abilities, there's even snippets window for storing and managing frequently-used pieces of code.
6. Automatic Navigation: No matter how large or small your RapidWeaver site, you know that users will be able to find the content they're looking for. RapidWeaver automatically creates the navigation menu for you: and tracks when you change any page names to ensure there's no broken links. The same is true for links you create between pages: no matter how much you move a page around your site, once you've created a link to the page, RapidWeaver keeps track of the page to ensure page links are always correct.