Version 4.0 now available as of 29th May 2008, however it requires 10.5 Leopard. Don't worry Tiger users, version 3.6 will continue to be supported.

Took a little while here to get used to the features, but things will speed up once one has some idea of what the templates could do and how the themes work on them. It's a slight nuisance that the code view is read-only, but one could just pop open an external editor when needed. Live PHP rendering is another plus. Very user-friendly overall.

flash1296 -- maybe this could help?

My searching for a textbook for using Rapid Weaver have been unavailing.
Am I missing something ?

teddy, that makes me feel better about them. I wonder why they didn't go with a version number of 4.0, though? 3.6 seems a little odd if its a major upgrade.

So ALL previous upgrades, 1.x through 3.5.x, were free? WOW! That's really nice, and very impressive. I'll definitely reconsider buying this upgrade.

Thanks for the info!

darylf2,

1) this is a big update, not a "minor point upgrade."

2) they have NEVER charged for an upgrade before.

RapidWeaver is nice, certainly, but why are they charging $25 for a point update (3.5.1 to 3.6)? I certainly don't want to buy a product if I need to pay a 50% upgrade fee for every minor point upgrade...

Rapidweaver for free:

http://www.realmacsoftware.com/macuser/

I got RapidWeaver as part of a MacZOT offer (I must admit I probably wouldn't have downloaded under normal circumstances). I build web sites professionally and was blown away by the results and ease of use. This is definitely something I would consider recommending to some smaller clients who will end up adding their own content. As soon as I have the spare time I'll look at how to build templates.

I recently switched from iBlog to Rapidweaver and wished I had years ago (literally).

Great app, great support, great results.

As someone else mentioned, it's not WordPress-powerful, but it's a strong app with lots of 3rd party expansion.

It's great but not as powerful as WordPress....