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I've been maintaining our website for some time now and have always done all the coding by hand in a text editor. I've always been a bit sniffy about web page making programs, probably due to the fact that the first one I tried was an early version of Dreamweaver, which was pants.
But when Rob wanted to quickly put together a site for his photographs, he got a recommendation for a program called Rapidweaver. He tried it, found it worked pretty well and got his site sorted in two shakes of a lamb's tail.
So when he decided the company website needed a major makeover he suggested he teach me how to use Rapidweaver.
So this is where I eat humble pie. It was pretty brilliant really. I haven't done the whole site yet, and I haven't got things exactly the way I want them yet, but I was able, in a few hours today, to do stuff to the site tht would likely have taken weeks (and much hair-tearing) if I'd attempted it by hand.
So I'm a convert :-)
But when Rob wanted to quickly put together a site for his photographs, he got a recommendation for a program called Rapidweaver. He tried it, found it worked pretty well and got his site sorted in two shakes of a lamb's tail.
So when he decided the company website needed a major makeover he suggested he teach me how to use Rapidweaver.
So this is where I eat humble pie. It was pretty brilliant really. I haven't done the whole site yet, and I haven't got things exactly the way I want them yet, but I was able, in a few hours today, to do stuff to the site tht would likely have taken weeks (and much hair-tearing) if I'd attempted it by hand.
So I'm a convert :-)
accomplished
So... is this freeware? I have always done my webpages with pure html. No special tool but a notepad and some code colouring. Purist me. But I'd be willing to try something new...
In case you're still interested, the web site is here :- http://www.realmacsoftware.com/rapidweaver/
Of course that was a few years ago now, so things have probably improved hugely since then.
This tool(with a paid-for add-on) let me set up a new shop page on the site in a couple of hours. It looks nicer than the old one and its easier to navigate and to rearrange and add new stuff to. I am well chuffed :-)