Find your way around RapidWeaver Classic
RapidWeaver comes with five example projects built-in so that you can familiarize yourself with the app and how to create websites with it.
When opening RapidWeaver you are greeted with the Project Selection window. On the right-hand side of this window you will see two tabs, Recent and Examples. Click on the Examples tab. Here you will see five built-in example projects for RapidWeaver. Each project highlights one of the modern, responsive themes included with RapidWeaver Classic and includes a selection of different pages, meaning you can use these examples as a starting point for your own project/website.
Let’s open the first example project Mountains by double-clicking on it.
Welcome to RapidWeaver’s Project window, where all the magic happens. 🪄
The above doesn’t look like much and you might be thinking “Where’s the stunning website?!?!” 🤔
Don’t worry, you are currently in RapidWeaver’s Edit mode. This is where you do your website building, your very own website construction zone. 🚧🏗️👷
In order to see a preview of what your website looks like as you build it, click on the Preview mode button in RapidWeaver’s Toolbar.
Tada 🎉, there’s a preview of your website. You can scroll up and down in the Preview area, click on links, etc. to see what your website looks like and how it functions.
Now let’s look at the other pages in Mountain's example project file. Click on the Edit mode button, then click on the Blog page from your Page List area.
The Blog page is built with RapidWeaver’s built-in Blog page type. Here you can build stylish, feature-rich blogs that you can publish for your website audience. Click on the Preview mode button to view Mountain’s example Blog page.
Gorgeous. 😍
Now let’s check out Mountain’s last example page, Gallery. Click on the Edit mode button, then click on the Gallery page from your Page List area.
The Gallery page is built with RapidWeaver’s built-in Photo Album page type, another one of RapidWeaver’s built-in page types. It allows you to build quick and easy photo galleries and slideshows for your website that look great across desktop and mobile devices. Click on the Preview mode button to view Mountain’s example Photo Album page.
Beautiful. 🤩
Click on the images in the Preview area to view them in full size. You can scroll through the images via the gallery’s navigation buttons.
Now that you’ve viewed all of the pages in the Mountains example project file, go ahead and open up the other example projects to better familiarize yourself with some of RapidWeaver’s different themes and how pages can look differently depending on which theme you select for your project.
To open the other example project files, click on File >> Show Projects…
Then double-click on the next example project you’d like to open and view.
You’ve now viewed and familiarized yourself with RapidWeaver's five example projects. This should give you a better idea of how website building in RapidWeaver works, and the amazing websites you can build with it.
In the next section, we'll go over how to build your very first website with RapidWeaver.
