John, over at Loghound is another big brain creating some great plugins for the junior cms known as Rapidweaver. The open architecture that Ben and Dan have implemented in their software has allowed small developers like Loghound and YourHead to flourish. In and of itself, Rapidweaver is just another tool that allows some restricted development of websites; offering a sacrifice in functionality for ease of use. The beauty of their software lies in its simplicity and its ability to use plugins that make up for those shortcomings.

Loghound has developed plugin that fills that void RW users have been screaming for; Rapidblog. Up 'til now RW was a desktop app and your site had to be updated through that application. With the addition Rapidblog and the associated blogger account, you can now update your blog from any internet connection.

You install the plugin like any other RW plug; double-click it and then restart the app. From then on you add a new RapidBlog page to your site, associate it with your blogger account and publish the site to your host. From that point on you never have to open RW again; although you will want to. You can now update your blog from RW or from any computer able to access your blogger account.

This is a great addition to the app and shows what some ingenuity can do. RW is a good app, but combining a few select plugins from Loghound and YourHead turns it into a great application capable of far more complex development.

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Isaiah Carew is one of the best shareware developers working in the Mac market today. A little background first; I began using Rapidweaver as a blog solution last year. I was just tired of finding the perfect solution, so I found a half-way decent app, RW, that offered me the ability to easily work on my site, while allowing me to run my business.
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Yourhead Software has come out with an update to their popular Blocks plugin for Rapidweaver. Blocks allows you to position elements within the page and alleviates some obvious shortcomings to RealMac Software's handy little application. It offers the ability to position elements, text, graphics raw code, anywhere on the page all from within the Rapidweaver application. Read More...

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