![]() Keith - you have explained this perfectly and from the sounds of it, FW is more flexible when it comes to creating your own custom websites whereas it sounds like RW is somewhat purely template driven. Just wanted to get an indication of what the differences are between the two apps. Grant, but they are designed to satisfy quite different publishingĪlso, I’ve no idea which has the biggest customer base.įreewaytalk mailing your subscriptions at: TheĬustomer base for Microsoft Word is massively larger than theĬustomer base for Adobe InDesign - but other than the fact that bothĪre used to assemble content on pages they are two massivelyĭifferent products and are used for rather different jobs.įreeway and RapidWeaver aren’t quite as dramatically different, I’ll But same difference really, and still the sameĬonclusion: the tools themselves work well.Īn interesting question, but I’m not sure how relevant it is. RapidWeaver a buggy third-party template could produce problems in Okay, it isn’t entirely down to plain end-user error: in Freeway, aīuggy third-party action could produce problems in the output. In both cases that will involve adding invalid or simply incorrectĬustom code by hand the stuff the tools themselves made is fine. That will produce your efforts in HTML form.Įach allows the user to screw things up if they try hard enough, but Settings you want, and it works out the optimal standards-based code RapidWeaver does so because that’s how the templates and the coreĮngine work: as long as you use a well-made template, the engine willįreeway does so because that’s how its sophisticated code generationĮngine is designed to work: you create your own layouts and pick the In terms of the code that is produced, they both do a great job… When it comes to coding, i.e CSS/Javascript/Ajax - which of the two Which approach works best for you really depends on which approach you prefer. ![]() The user with a blank page and the tools of a professional designer. RapidWeaver is a very well made tool, one that presents the user withĪ pre-built abstract of a site structure that is waiting for content.įreeway is also a very well-made tool, and it is one that presents Site creation isn’t one that fits with my desire to build custom page Time as a RapidWeaver user - but that’s because its basic approach to I’m afraid that I can’t answer as someone who has spent significant Sometime around 28/5/08 (at 10:29 -0400) Tonsils said:Īre there any people out there that have extensively used RW and
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