I'm on a 501(c)3 board, which isn't as fancy a resume stuffer as you might think, and have discovered the organization is launching a new project with a critical need for a supporting web site that doesn't yet exist.
It will be a simple thing, but the site needs to go on line immediately.
So, I bought a copy of Rapidweaver Elements. I haven't touched web design in a couple of decades and I wanted a point and click, get 'er done solution with portable output. No anchor firmly set at any one hosting provider.
My first impressions were key features must be broken and that the learning curve required Saturn V boosters at full throttle-up.
Note to Canva - that was my impression before I bought. The Elements support forum was so active and friendly, kind of like Affinity's forums in bygone days, I bought the product firmly convinced it was going to fight me.
It took a week to get a couple of free hours to go through documentation, but that's all it took. I'm off and running. The learning curve of a thousand miles seems to be about half over after a few baby steps. The features that were broken were all PEBCAK, Problem Exists Between Chair And Keyboard.
ID-10-T errors, if you catch my drift.
Between cheap hosting for the 501(c)3 and jumping ship from my own paid Wordpress in favor of an Elements static/Markdown CMS, I think I'm saving good money despite the cost of Elements. We will have a web site we can host anywhere we want.
The same could be said of Adobe Dreamweaver, which I keep typo-ing as Dreadweaver. It's probably great. It's only another hundred or two a year more than Elements.
But it's Adobe. I think I'd almost rather do business with Canva.
It will be a simple thing, but the site needs to go on line immediately.
So, I bought a copy of Rapidweaver Elements. I haven't touched web design in a couple of decades and I wanted a point and click, get 'er done solution with portable output. No anchor firmly set at any one hosting provider.
My first impressions were key features must be broken and that the learning curve required Saturn V boosters at full throttle-up.
Note to Canva - that was my impression before I bought. The Elements support forum was so active and friendly, kind of like Affinity's forums in bygone days, I bought the product firmly convinced it was going to fight me.
It took a week to get a couple of free hours to go through documentation, but that's all it took. I'm off and running. The learning curve of a thousand miles seems to be about half over after a few baby steps. The features that were broken were all PEBCAK, Problem Exists Between Chair And Keyboard.
ID-10-T errors, if you catch my drift.
Between cheap hosting for the 501(c)3 and jumping ship from my own paid Wordpress in favor of an Elements static/Markdown CMS, I think I'm saving good money despite the cost of Elements. We will have a web site we can host anywhere we want.
The same could be said of Adobe Dreamweaver, which I keep typo-ing as Dreadweaver. It's probably great. It's only another hundred or two a year more than Elements.
But it's Adobe. I think I'd almost rather do business with Canva.
