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New Site Design...
September 15, 2006 03:23 | Apple
...and new blog which takes less effort to update, so
I might be inclined to do it more than once per year.
By the way, the site is made using RapidWeaver, which I liked well enough to buy it. Going from editing raw HTML/CSS to such a tool was just a question of time and laziness (and style - it looks a lot fancier now). I've also tried Apple's iWeb which has no SFTP publishing and generally feels too much like a Word processor for the Web - which was certainly the intent, but it gives too little control over the pages it generates. A while ago I've also tried Sandvox, but it crashed too much to be trusted. Downloading it again today, I found that the crashing is gone with the current version, but after using RapidWeaver to create this site Sandvox didn't feel quite as intuitive and Mac-like as I expect.
Rapidweaver is pretty good, but not perfect. I've had to use a few tricks to make it do what I want. One thing was support for Google Analytics. While there is a field to add custom javascript code to each page, it doesn't work for Analytics, because part of it links to a .js file on Google's site. It also doesn't set it for the whole site, just for one page, so I had to copy the theme and put the Analytics code in there.
Another trick is putting a link to the PHP contact form in the page footer instead of an E-Mail address. I simply put a link into the Copyright field:
Apart from those things, I'd like to see a way to add my own files/directories to the site using RapidWeaver instead of dumping them onto the server after publishing with RapidWeaver. This could be implemented as a new page category where you simply add files and folders directly under the site root. And perhaps even support for robots.txt and .htaccess with a nice interface.
By the way, the site is made using RapidWeaver, which I liked well enough to buy it. Going from editing raw HTML/CSS to such a tool was just a question of time and laziness (and style - it looks a lot fancier now). I've also tried Apple's iWeb which has no SFTP publishing and generally feels too much like a Word processor for the Web - which was certainly the intent, but it gives too little control over the pages it generates. A while ago I've also tried Sandvox, but it crashed too much to be trusted. Downloading it again today, I found that the crashing is gone with the current version, but after using RapidWeaver to create this site Sandvox didn't feel quite as intuitive and Mac-like as I expect.
Rapidweaver is pretty good, but not perfect. I've had to use a few tricks to make it do what I want. One thing was support for Google Analytics. While there is a field to add custom javascript code to each page, it doesn't work for Analytics, because part of it links to a .js file on Google's site. It also doesn't set it for the whole site, just for one page, so I had to copy the theme and put the Analytics code in there.
Another trick is putting a link to the PHP contact form in the page footer instead of an E-Mail address. I simply put a link into the Copyright field:
Apart from those things, I'd like to see a way to add my own files/directories to the site using RapidWeaver instead of dumping them onto the server after publishing with RapidWeaver. This could be implemented as a new page category where you simply add files and folders directly under the site root. And perhaps even support for robots.txt and .htaccess with a nice interface.
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