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RapidWeaver WYSIWYG editor for the Mac

By Wired Blogs November 17, 2005 Categories: Software & Tools

This week, Realmac Software announced the release of the latest version of their RapidWeaver development tool. Now, it’s pretty obvious that the name is a gag on Dreamweaver (good luck explaining that one to Macromedia, guys!), and there’s not really much hope for a PC version, but this release gives Mac users plenty to get excited about.

RapidWeaver is a WYSIWYG editor that takes advantages of Mac OS X’s built-in application integration. When you want to start building a site from scratch, you choose a provided template based on what kind of content you want to display — blog, photo gallery, movie clip gallery, et cetera. Now comes the fun part: RapidWeaver will automatically populate your site’s photo galleries with pictures that you have stored in iPhoto. You can even auto-update your galleries based on iPhoto metadata criteria you determine. RapidWeaver can create an XHTML or Flash gallery on the fly.

If you don’t like the templates they provide, you can create your own or turn to a small network of sites that provide free templates built especially for RapidWeaver. The application’s templates are fully customizable with controls for CSS and RSS, and they ship entirely standards-compliant and accessible.

So, if you’re a Mac user and you want to build a simple site for your photos or words (no shopping carts just yet), then this application looks super promising.

It’s almost enough to get me to start using iPhoto…

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