A few weeks ago I bought the Mac Heist Bundle. This is a bundle of software that comes out about once a year. The company that puts out the bundle shares some of the profit with charities. The nice thing about this years bundle was if they sold a certain number they would unlock the Rapid Weaver web site creation software. This is a very solid program that cost $79, but with the bundle it was only $19.99, which was a great deal. The Mac Heist bundle also had many other programs included in that price.

With all the web sites I create and landing pages, I am always looking for an easy to use programs that can help build my sites quickly. The Rapid Weaver program was not hard to work with, but it did take a little effort reading and watching videos from the company web site. Once I figured out the basics I was making web sites that looked professional. The included templates can be customized for just about any project. There are also many templates that you can buy only for Rapid Weaver, plus many plug-ins to increase the function of your web site project.

The first site I worked on was an old celebrity fan site I had forgotten about. It was about time to give this site a makeover and add new content. The first page on the site I just added regular text and placed my content. The only problem I had was setting up Google Adsense the ads never did show up on the site. When I tried placing some affiliate banners the program accepted the HTML and the banners showed up on my site. At least I was able to monetize the site with banners. Looking online for information on getting Adsense to work I was unable to find any information that would help.

At $19.99 Rapid weaver was a steal. This is a full feature program that can truly create great looking web sites. If you paid the full $79 price tag then there are many other programs to buy for the PC or Mac that have more features. Still at $79 it is one of the better web site creations programs on the Mac. Overall I would recommend this program for those who need an easy program to make web sites on the Mac, but then again the new version of iWeb has many of the feature found in Rapid weaver and it comes free with every Mac as part of iLife. If you want to try Rapid weaver there is a free download through their web site.