In the RapidWeaver Classroom tutorials I recommend publishing your website to a test directory before publishing it live - typically the first time you publish and then when you make major updates. FTP bookmarks would allow you to save multiple instances of publishing settings, so that you wouldn’t have to clear the fields and re-enter your information in the Publishing Settings whenever you want to change where your site is being published. While I wouldn’t consider this a major feature, it is a welcome convenience for the large majority who publish their sites with RapidWeaver. This should speed-up your publishing time, the load times of your webpages, and create cleaner HTML code in your pages. CSS consolidation will take all the code in those individual CSS files and place it all into one file - this means that only one CSS file will need to be published to your server, and only one CSS document will have to be referenced in your HTML files. Each of these CSS files must be uploaded to your server and referenced by the HTML files associated with your webpages. In an attempt at a quick and simple explanation, every theme variation under the Styles tab is tied to a separate CSS file. Many users may not see the importance of this feature because it’s something that will occur in the background (I assume), but it is a big deal and I am very excited it will be included. All-in-all, though, I do think it is important for Sitemap generation to be standard with every website RapidWeaver creates.ĬSS consolidation to speed up page loading. John at Loghound does outstanding work and it should be evident from the RapidWeaver Classroom tutorials that I think very highly of his products, so I did have mixed feelings about this news for John’s sake. In the official news posting it is mentioned that this does overlap with Loghound’s Sitemap plugin, but the Sitemap plugin will still have its place for power-users. This is good news and a feature that I do think needs to be standard with RapidWeaver. This change should make it far less intimidating to work with assets added directly to a RapidWeaver project.Īutomatic built-in XML Sitemap generation and All-new, built-in Sitemap page type for creating an HTML sitemap. I am thrilled to see this change to a global setting, and I can only assume that it will be well-executed. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!!! Laugh RapidWeaver’s ‘Assets’ feature has always been one of the very few poorly implemented features of the software. Site Resources: we’ve entirely re-worked the ‘Assets’ feature of RapidWeaver to allow folks to add global site resources (now found in the sidebar) that can be linked to from any page. Also, the mention of “world-renowned designers” really raises expectations for these themes, so they had better be great! There’s no doubt that people demo RapidWeaver and drop it before even realizing there are 3rd-party themes, simply because they are less than impressed with the built-in theme selection. While I love 3rd-party themes and the theme development community, I think it’s important that RapidWeaver ship with some high-quality themes in order to be taken seriously as a website design application. The current offering of built-in themes is severely lacking in flexibility and design that is up-to-par with current trends. Over a dozen brand new themes, designed by world-renowned designers. I would love to make some comments of my own regarding the announced features, so I will do so below. This is official news straight from Realmac Software and the full details can be found here. Big news was released this week regarding features for RapidWeaver 5.0.
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