Monday, 5 January 2009

Rapidweaver to Wordpress?

This is surely becoming more of a dilemma for me. Been using Rapidweaver on this site for quite a while now and in the main have been more than happy with it. Get fed up with the look and it’s so easy to change, either by fiddling with the styles within a theme or swapping themes altogether. For my little projects I need various display capabilities and the native application together with the many available plug-ins can make the whole effect very attractive.
And yet, when trying to decide whether to use the blog page as supplied with the program, as I’ve done here, or to tie it in with Blogger or Wordpress, as I’ve done with my other site (bantamspast), the whole thing becomes much more complex.
Well … not really. It’s quite simple to set up using another plug-in in called RapidBlog. Set up the Blogger account. Fiddle around with RapidBlog for a few minutes and it’s done. But then you’ve got your Blogger blog, and it’s synced with your Rapidweaver blog and then throw in the fact that they use Haloscan for comments and you really want to use Disqus and you start to think to yourself why not use Wordpress? Then you cut out the middlemen. No syncing. Just a dashboard with an empty box for you to start writing. And the latest version, 2.7, is so beautiful and simple to use.
I’ve just begun following a blog from sunny Tyneside - Fruitbytes - and in addtion to liking the great comments on Mac and other techy products, I also admired the feel of the whole thing. It’s based on a Wordpress theme. And I started to think, I want one like that. Yes, I know. Wordpress is really for blogging, not whole websites. But you can have other types of pages on Wordpress as well.
And yet, I really like the Rapidweaver people. Not just the company itself. The whole community is so helpful and friendly. I visit the forums, read the blogs and follow the tweets. I just hate to let people down. And I’m quite tempted by the upcoming Stacks plug-in from Yourhead software.
As I said. It’s a dilemma.

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