Hello Everyone!
Earlier in the year (May seems like an age ago!) we
announced the preliminary feature set for RapidWeaver 5 with the plan being to ship mid-2010. As acknowledged elsewhere in the thread it has taken a little longer than we
Nik Fletcher, Product Manager, Realmac Software
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As a long time user, I'm looking forward to this upgrade. The upgrade price is fair. But it would be nice if people who us RW sinds the early beginning, receive a "special" price. Just my ² cent
I will buy the upgrade instantly, as I love RapidWeaver. It's a fantastic app!!!
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I bet you will eat your words within a few months of the release. By "Theme Consolidation" I believe that it has been stated that the css stylesheets will be consolidated; this alone will be reason enough I believe. Right now I understand that the total number of stylesheets has been a practical limitation. And this will likely make pages load faster. Cleaner code up there at your site will be very attractive I think.
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sounds good but dont worry _mid 2010_ is over so give us more hype
i'm not a RW master so i dont _need_ of him but ehi i was just curious lol
Can you tell us whether existing themes and/or projects will have to be changed to use v.5?
If so, will there be a migration/conversion capability?
David
I will say it again... Thank you for the work on this new release. Just trying to understand it better is all. As a person who follows this forum daily I thought it would be ok to ask about RapidWeaver 5 in this announcement thread. If I came accross as negative I didn't mean to.
On a different note... what does one gain if RapidWeaver were 64 bit? As I understand it we would lose quite a bit in the third party area by going 64 bit. I know they could update products to work, but when would that happen? What are the immediate benifits of the app running in 64 bit. I run PS in 64 bit as an example. I also run it in 32 bit for some filters. I don't see what the big deal is. I only run a 2.4 gh iMac with 4 gb of ram. I really don't see the big benefit when I run it 64.
One more thing... Can we expect something to make the creation of a content management system easier? This is keeping RapidWeaver back from reaching its full potential. I tried a few plugins, but none of them provided a convincing solution. Something is missing from RW that developers might really need.
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For me, on balance, much of this is to do with internals that could/should have been done 2 years or so ago. What has been done to extend ease of use? What has been done to respond to explicit function requests that makes RW a more interesting option to CMS-based solutions, such as multi-author management, remote blogging, etc?
Not wanting to take the bread from the mouths of key 3rd party addon developers but what if they succumbed to 'falls under a bus' syndrome and development/support for key plugins vanished? Where does that leave RW? Much of the sizzle that RW has is down to some brilliant 3rd party solutions it seems to me.
As this is an Apple platform product I wonder what has happened to the shock and awe that major releases of products usually have when we are asked for more money? You tell me, but I can't see it the version 5 pr-announcement.
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Lastly, what about displaying all the blog stories on another page with links? This would be handy for websites where you want to display your latest news or blog entries on the homepage, to give visitors quick access.
This has been broached before, and RapidWeaver will have an additional system in the future, but they won't build in one that relies on a javascript hack (yes, it is a hack) rather then doing it natively. Adding javascript to a page can introduce possibly clashes that without such a move wouldn't be necessary.
I understand people's love of Extra Content and it's added flexibility in a lot of cases, but it also has a support cost that Realmac won't want to pick up. I'm sure additional content areas or possibilities are high on their list.
Regarding the Blog thing, have you tried an RSS based script to pull Blog details into a page? Depends on the setup as to the results.
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thanks for your post and keeping us up2date!
sounds nice, even though I can't really imagine how the new layout will look. but I hope for the best
one thing nobody seems to be concerned of is speed. are there any speed improvements? at least no slowdowns?
thanks and looking very much forward to the release! best wishes - kai.
For what it's worth, I meant a system that has the functionality of ExtraContent, but obviously without the need for hacks. So that's good news, but is it coming in version 5?
I've mentioned this elsewhere, however the Courier team is entirely separate from RW and always has been. RW5 is shipping before the end of the year and we'll be announcing a shipping date in the not-too-distant future.
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Nik
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I'm really looking forward to the new streamlined user interface as well, and hope some of the "missing features" could be added in 5.x releases.
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I am aware the more complex a project gets, the more components interact and the troubles might have their origin in the combination of plugins, stacks, pages, etc...
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1. with out users being empowered to update their own content in a CMS 'type' way (not full blown CMS just content updates that are clean without having to use google docs or a blog) - then I still don't see this as a viable tool to create, deploy and then enable the user to update their own site content(unless I've seriously missed something!). Massive limitation and turning users off by the total cost of ownership of their newly delivered site only to have to come back for simple content updates. 3rd party CMS add-ons that have been suggested just aren't viable. (and a real headache to us because it imposes a capacity on the number of customers we could potentially take on considering the amount of support required to update their content for them)
2. a more stable approach to all of the add on so they don't clobber each other - may it be java issues or others. Lost count of the number of times I've chased bugs because of these issues, so much so that I walked away from RW.
Also, I appreciate there will be stability issues addressed in this version which we all have been desperate to see for a long time - but having to pay for an upgrade from 4 to 5 to resolve them just doesn't sound right.
Just my 2p, nothing more. Initially made a serious investment in RW in both time and money and then hit this brick wall noted in the points above, especially point 1.
Regards,
Mike
thanks for sharing. I agree with lots of points. especially the stability issues due to the different plugins. maybe there should be a guideline from the rw guys...
I am quite happy with webyep as a small easy content cms. sometimes I could need more. but up to now it works well
I would be very interested where to you moved on. what are the tools you are using now?
best wishes - kai.
I agree Mike, on both accounts. Things seem to have gotten better in regards to the old rule "one type of Stack per page," but the issue still rears its ugly head from time to time.
As for your other subject - I couldn't agree more. In your case, how have you resolved it? In my case, I've found the easiest method has been to create a "news" page with an imported Google document (as seen [a href="http://ssclimbing.com/latest-news/latest-news.php" target="_blank"]here[/a]). But, as someone who also does a lot of DW development, I'd be very interested to know if you're using Dreamweaver - and if so, what you're using in conjunction with it to empower your clients to update their own content.
All the best,
Dave
users CAN update their own content - you open RW on your Mac, add your content and publish. If you are building sites for clients then it is more difficult, but I don't think that is the aim of RW - it is not a Joomla-type program, it is a program for people to easily build their own simple websites in