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RapidWeaver 5 Beginner’s Guide
Build beautiful and professional websites with ease using
RapidWeaver
Joe Workman
BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI
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RapidWeaver 5 Beginner’s Guide
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About the Author
Joe Workman is an indie software developer who develops popular applications for Mac
OS X and add-ons for RapidWeaver. Joe released his first RapidWeaver Stacks add-on to the
Mac community back in 2008. He has grown since then to become the largest RapidWeaver
add-on developer with over 125+ add-ons available.
Joe has developed many popular Mac utilities, but his flagship application is DomainBrain.
DomainBrain helps users get all their domain-related data out
of their brains into a centrally managed location.
Joe was born, raised, and still currently lives in the SF Bay Area with his beautiful wife
and three kids, although he had some wonderful years living in Goiania, Brazil, and
London, England. He loves photography and coaching his son’s soccer team.
For more about Joe and his products, head over to his website at
http://joeworkman.net.
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Acknowledgement
I want to dedicate this book to my wife Francsica and to the best three kids that a
dad could have. They make my life a complete joy. Every second of my life is devoted
to making them happy. I love you infinity demais!
I want to give a huge thank you to Isaiah from YourHead Software. If Isaiah had not
pushed me into selling my first piece of software back in 2009, I would never have
become the full-fledged indie development shop that I am today. I am forever grateful
for his mentorship and being a great friend.
Dan Counsell and Nik Fletcher over at Realmac Software have both been instrumental
in both getting this book complete as well as creating the amazing community that allows
me to be in business. Nik has been a life saver behind the scenes where he makes all the
magic happen, while Dan is a true visionary behind Realmac that I can only hope live up
to someday.
While I was off busy writing this book, someone had to hold down the fort. So a huge thanks
goes out to Tron Sutton and Rob Ziebol for their amazing work. They have the privilege of
handling all the support tickets for all my products and any special projects that I may throw
at them. They are a godsend. Thanks guys!
So last but definitely not least, I want to thank all of my customers for making this happen.
I would not be where I am three years later without your support, praise, and ideas. I
hope that I have returned the favor to you over the years in turn with some great support,
awesome products, and a plethora of free updates (even though I’ve been told that I am
crazy for doing so).
Now go forth and make your websites great!
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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/).
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Table of Contents
Preface 1
Chapter 1: Getting Started 7
What is RapidWeaver? 8
iWeb versus RapidWeaver versus Dreamweaver 8
It's more than an app 9
Installing RapidWeaver 12
The Mac App store 13
RealmacSoftware.com 14
Creating our first website 15
Time for action – starting a new RapidWeaver project 15
Publishing our website 20
Selecting a web host 20
Time for action – publishing our website 22
Summary 23
Chapter 2: Touring RapidWeaver 25
Webpage list 26
Adding a new page 26
Page order and site navigation 26
Time for action – adding some pages to our navigation 27
Preview mode versus Edit mode 28
View Source 28
Page Inspector 29
General settings 30
Time for action – setting up proper folder and filenames 33
Sidebar 34
Time for action – creating a sidebar 35
Header 36
Styles 38
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