![]() ![]() Not sure what you mean by a ‘technical website’ but you can build decent, responsive sites without stacks - just using the built in pages. And with the Stacks demo lasting only an hour, I cannot evaluate it, either. While I will gladly spend that for a tool that works well, my experience with RW so far is not encouraging. So it looks like I need to spend over $200 before I can determine whether RapidWeaver+Stacks+Foundry or RapidWeaver+Stacks+Foundation will actually do what I need to do. Perhaps these are buried inside Foundry or Foundation, but I have no way of evaluating them since Stacks stopped working. Yes, there are hundreds of stacks available, but how do I find one that lets me resize an image? Or find a theme that does not force me to use a background or image completely unrelated to my content, and does not waste the top 6 inches of the page? – Google did not help very much, and asking in the forum has too large a response time. What I GREATLY dislike about this is the requirement that users be clairvoyant. I am not trying to do anything special or obscure, just apply a common theme and header to all pages, place images where I want them, and entering styled text around the images, with links to other pages. I am trying to craft a technical website, and it’s now clear that RW simply cannot do that without Stacks, and probably needs several other add-ons as well (one of Foundry or Foundation, plus perhaps others). ![]() I was starting to figure out how to use Stacks when its “free demo” stopped working after just an hour or so (prompting to purchase it). ![]() ![]() I concluded I need Stacks, and downloaded its “free demo”. I have spent about three hours watching videos that contained information I could have found in a written manual in FAR less time. How can I learn to use RapidWeaver without spending hours and hours watching videos? These are just a few basic things I thought a website editor would easily do “out of the box”. I figured out how to remove the banner, but I want one ~ 1 inch tall – how do I do that? I do not want the banner to take up the entire first view of the webpage. I want to resize the image to 0.5 window width and place it on the right, with text flowing around it on the left – how do I do that? (I have done this in HTML, so I know it is possible, and many websites do it.) I cannot find a clue how to resize the image – how do I do that? I switch to Preview mode, and the whole image is visible, as wide as the webpage. Strange and rather disconcerting (who wants to see just a piece of a large image?). The image happens to be larger than the entire monitor, so I only see the left piece of it in the edit pane, and must scroll around to see anything other than its left edge (no way to see the rest). So I select a theme “Engineer”, and in edit mode type some random text and drop in an image. Unlike many other web tools I have used, it is a complete mystery, and the only “manual” is a bunch of videos. I just downloaded a trial version of RapidWeaver 8. I am looking for something more efficient that that. Fixed an issue with the Disqus options being overwritten when editing a blog post.I am a highly experienced software developer, have written several web applications using HTML/PHP/Javascript, and crafted several web pages by editing the bare HTML.Fixed an issue with Disqus commenting breaking certain themes.Fixed the display of plugin icons in the Page Quick-Add menu.Fixed an issue with Software Update to allow third-party plugins to update themselves.Fixed an issue opening saved projects from Beta 1.Fixed an issue with the Alpha theme to ensure navigation menus work correctly with YourHead Software's Stacks plugin.Fixed an issue with the inability to remove the Ignore Formatting option, alongside performance improvements related to the feature.RapidWeaver now includes an optional anonymous System Profile when checking for updates.Fixes an issue with the Blog plugin's RSS feed where the URL was missing a forward slash.Fixes an issue where the email address was incorrectly set when multiple %footer% tags are used.Various other minor code-level improvements to keep things running smoothly.RapidWeaver allows anyone to Publish Photos, Movies and Blogs online instantly. No knowledge of complex code is required, RapidWeaver will take care of all that for you. ![]()
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