On 30 Jun 2010, at 18:43, Doug Fairchild wrote:
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> I have a friend who wants to collaborate on a template styled mini-website for several categories of practitioners. He's a salesman and wants to add this to his repertoire. So I wheeled out my copy of RapidWeaver to see what I could do with it. Thought I could load it with some boilerplate about the particular practice, like Chiropractic, Nutritional Therapy or whatever it's called, and so on, include some digital shots made by the client or staff, a contact form, an appointment thing (I think there is one of those) and whatever else is needed and let him go with it and see what comes of it.
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> Well, it will apparently do those thing, and it sure can make fast variations on the boilerplate with a couple of clicks, and you can set the color scheme pretty much you like, and vary that. But there are only a few out of the selection of designs I wouldn't be somewhat embarrassed to put my name on. Most of it is schlock.


I don't think I agree. I was briefly fiddling about with the latest version of RW at a friend's house this afternoon.

Although purely an amateur 'dabbler' he has bought quite a few third-party themes.

I must admit I was surprised to see not only how many options there are for integrating the likes of jQuery, but also themes with optimisation for the likes of iPhone/iPad.

All this is rather slicker and with generated code which is typically considerably better than anything I've seen produced via DW or GL templates.


The design elements are perhaps more of a subjective issue, but then if one is supposed to be offering creative design then I don't consider that a major limitation - if the foundations are sound, you can do quite a lot within those frameworks, albeit it personally I'd probably want to take it outside the RW editing environment.

But for what it costs, I still have a lot of time for RW, and would contend it's infinitely more focused and intuititive for its target market than Flux for instance.


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Miles



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