Beautiful Code. Everywhere.
RapidWeaver allows you to seamlessly swap between rich text editing and HTML mark-up anywhere in your site. This makes it easy to add Google Maps, adverts, or even code that displays data from a database.
RapidWeaver is template based, but that doesn’t mean it’s not flexible. You can dive into theme template files and modify the layout as much as you like. You only need to look at the wealth of third party themes to see how flexible it is!
RapidWeaver Themes are all built using CSS. As it’s a standard most web developers know and love, you don’t need to learn anything more to start modifying RapidWeaver themes, or build your own.
RapidWeaver speaks your language
RapidWeaver loves most popular coding languages. Want to add some custom Javascript or CSS to a page? Need to include a PHP class library before the DOCTYPE? Or maybe even install Google Analytics to keep track of visitors? No problem, RapidWeaver can handle it.
Plus, if you’re a PHP guru you can hand-code tiny portions of your site (or even the entire thing) in RapidWeaver, and your PHP is rendered when you preview the page.
Powered by WebKit
RapidWeaver's previewing is powered by WebKit, the very same standards-compliant engine that's under the hood of Apple's Safari browser that you know and love.
HTML Validation
RapidWeaver gives you access to view the HTML code behind you site, even giving you warnings about any possible errors.
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Customisation
RapidWeaver keeps things simple, but also allows you to customise virtually every aspect of your website.
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Open File Format? Check.
The RapidWeaver Sandwich file format (.rwsw) is a completely open file format. We call them "RapidWeaver Sandwiches" because it's easy to open them up and see the filling. In the Finder, they’re viewed as normal ‘bundles’ however inside it’s all developer-friendly XML.
This allows anyone to add new pages or modify settings outside of RapidWeaver, and more importantly gives third party developers the opportunity to write new and exciting products based around the RapidWeaver sandwich format. File formats have never looked so tasty!
Developers Love RapidWeaver!
To help developers build great products for RapidWeaver, there's two SDKs available to help get you started. Cocoa developers can take advantage of our Plugin SDK to build great plugins (such as Blocks and Lockdown) and utilise the all-new sandwich file format, whilst web developers can take advantage of our Theme SDK to build their own custom CSS and XHTML-based themes.