Rapidweaver sample websites6/12/2023 ![]() ![]() It really seems like they care about using best practices technology.Multiple pricing levels allow a starting user (Free, Basic, One, then Pro) to use it without paying much.TL DR: My top choice for 2021 if you are looking for a simple but powerful Mac-based website builder: Sparkle. ![]() I’ll also mention a number of the other contenders and why I didn’t consider them. So I did some searching and browsing, and I evaluated what I felt were the top four contenders. Some of them, such as WordPress - while powerful - are complex and confusing to many of the people I’ve spoken to who have tried using them. Many of the web-based builders aren’t really focused on ease of use, the way that most Mac applications are. The sites that they create, from a technical point of view, are absolutely disgusting.) They may be perfectly fine for some people, but I find it annoying to interact with almost any web-based application when I’m using a state of the art Mac with its much richer user interface along with my photo and media library at my fingertips (rather than having to upload my assets to the website for them to be used.) This was the original reason that I created Sandvox 15 years ago, and it still applies today. I personally can’t recommend these web-based builders. Also the dominant hosting companies like GoDaddy (which I would never recommend due to their ties to right-wing groups) and many other web hosting companies have their own website building platforms, or at least white-labeled platforms that they offer their customers. Well-funded, big companies like SquareSpace and Wix, with their ubiquitous advertising, make them seem like they are perhaps the only solutions available. The dominant paradigm for creating a website is, for better or for worse, web-based website builders. And since the app that I had created many years ago is apparently not being maintained, I can’t recommend it. For instance I’m proud that the website for my musician son has scores of 100/95/93/99 in Lighthouse, and mostly A’s on .īut of course most people want to create a website without having to understand HTML coding. I challenge myself to come up with the best architecture possible. I have built and maintained a few websites over the last few years, but I’ve taken to building them by hand, trying to use best practices for simple design and good performance. I’ve resisted looking at the options out there. IntroductionEvery now and again, a new RapidWeaver theme comes along that breaks the mould.Over the last few years, since I left Karelia Software for greener pastures and was no longer involved in the creation of website-building software, I’ve been asked by friends and family for recommendations on software that non-technical people can use to build modern, responsive, good-looking, and well-architected websites. Studio not only looks fabulous on the surface (think how perfect this theme would be for a photography portfolio) but it also builds-in an incredibly diverse range of theme style and colour settings. This gives you the power to build stunning websites that captivate every website visitor. Studio may look quite simple on the surface. However it has been carefully crafted using the forefront of latest web design technologies like flexbox, animations, transitions, embedded fonts and a whole swath other other ground-breaking features. The end result is a robust theme that is likely to give you many years of stellar service. This RapidWeaver theme is great to use for smaller websites, like a website for a sole tradesperson, artist, illustrator, musician, photographer, filmmaker or creative writer. In the past some users have used Studio for personal homepages, holiday accommodation websites, political campaigning and temporarily landing pages.Ģ column layoutThe two column layout in Studio is accomplished using some cleaver CSS flexbox code. By default the main page content container is rendered on the left and your RapidWeaver banner image and sidebar get displayed on the right. The righthand side column can be customised in a choice of widths and alignments, within the Studio style settings. On mobile screens (less than 768px wide) you can choose whether to display the content or sidebar first on the page. Pure HTML + CSS code - no complicated or error prone Javascript involved!ĬolouringStudio has a distinctive 'light on dark' colour scheme. Simply because many artists and photographers ask us for themes of this style. ![]()
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