❔What do you want to see in RapidWeaver 8 and beyond?

I would love to see the master style being replaced by the custom style settings of the frameworks: foundation, foundry and uikit. Depending which is used in the current project, of course. So like an option to set, if one or more are installed at all.

This way, when a framework is used you will not have to add the custom style stack to each and every page.

Makes life more simple for us framework users!

Thanks

Jan

SVG, SVG, SVG… :slight_smile:

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I’d second a revamped/more robust colour picker

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RapidWeaver 8, Well Should be - “One and only CMS based website builder/ftp engine.”

Another collection of requests:

Easy to make/publish htaccess files pages, 404 pages, other error redirect pages if necessary

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  • Focus on accessibility (and SEO and usability will follow)
  • Make it easier for Theme and Stack developers to follow the WCAG 2.0 guidelines
  • Force themes to produce validated HTML (https://validator.w3.org/)
  • Force stacks to produce validated HTML
  • Get rid of legacy
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If you’re looking for a better colour picker you should check out Skala Color from Bjango (it’s free and rather good) — https://bjango.com/mac/skalacolor/

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Maybe not the picker, I suppose, but a more user-friendly way to manage the colours in the palette, that sort of thing…

I think people are wanting a way to save the colors INSIDE of RapidWeaver, so if they work on more than one machine, the colors are there and you do not have to go through settings to find them.

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I had to create a Wordpress site. HORRIBLE for creating a full blown web site, but the blogging capabilities, scalability, and modernization made me feel bad for using a RW blog on my site. Let’s bring the blog out of 2005.

Another feature I found awesome was the ability to integrate SEO into every step. By using wordpress and All-in-One SEO, the SEO steps were organically woven in directly into the project.

Thx for asking.

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Put a colour palette in here, and offer macros for theme and stack devs, and expose them in the API. As well as enable there selection when a user wants to select a colour everywhere the colour picker pop’s up.

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I second this! GREAT idea!

It’s not really about the colour picker itself and I already have Skala installed.

One of the key problems with colour palettes in RW is that you see exactly the same saved colours for every project and if you are working on several sites it becomes unmanageable. Furthermore there is no way to identify chosen colours with meaningful tags and I think Freeway could do that 10 years ago or more. Looking at 8 variations of a pale blue from 4 different sites and wondering which one to choose is frustrating. Given that roughly 10% of males suffer from some degree of colour blindness it must be intolerable for them.

I actually see the FTP bookmark system in RW as a useful direction for managing colour selection. Colours from other projects would be hidden by default, yet easily accessible when desired and each item is accorded a name chosen by the user for easy reference. It doesn’t have to be implemented in the same way but that’s the basic theory.

This could be extended to become truly useful by including suggestions to help users create designs with colour schemes that have a good aesthetic balance. Something like this from Adobe built into RW with the different rules for complimentary or analogous colours etc https://color.adobe.com/create/color-wheel/

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If Realmac decide to pursue the colour palette idea, then this could be a good solution. There is the ability to add a bundle to ~/Library/ColorPickers/ and have that display a selection of colours in a new tab in the colour picker. This tab could contain the colours defined by the user in the project files palette (as screenshot above). That tab could even be highlighted by the site logo as the tab icon. There is one problem to address with this, but I think it is entirely possible. If you just added a bundle for every new project, you’d end up with a mass of new tabs in your colour picker. So RW would need to design a mechanism to add and remove the colour bundle that produces the tab from the colour picker directory on the fly every time a project is opened or closed. This is all based on this article : http://macoscope.com/blog/how-to-extend-the-os-x-color-panel-with-a-custom-color-picker/

Meantime, you can always manually create your own colour palette on a project by project basis here in the colour picker :

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This is a good tip @Doobox. I’d forgotten that feature existed.

I see a little app being handy for the creation and management of those colour sets. So… we’ll… I’m currently making one :slight_smile:

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@Doobox: Pretty neat. Could be useful. Reminds me a bit of Foundry’s Style Guide stack.

My only complaint about the color picker for OS X is that the color selection doesn’t always match the exact color that is being eyedroppered. Wish there was a way to make that happen.

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The ability to use Sass in side RW would flipping rock.

There are already plenty ones available like http://sipapp.io

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None of which are available as the colour picker in RW.

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