![]() ![]() I don’t have Blocs Plus, but it might be worth a look to see if it helps with your work flows. Saying that, you can add code from various sources to get what you need and the community here is friendly and helpful in that regard. The pool of 3rd party devs is smaller (you will recognise a few ) but it’s not a bad thing as there is less overlap and costs are not likely to spiral as they can with RW. The Blocs ecosystem is not as well developed as the RW one, so depending what you need for your designs it may not be available to buy. The other main difference is 3rd party addons. RW9 may change that but it does look like a lot of bridges are being burnt to get there. RW is very stagnant in comparison, not having many new features added in recent times and user engagement for future features is lacking in comparison. Blocs for iPad also looks like a big step forward. The rate of new features, and the community engagement from, is just phenomenal. Blocs doesn’t have publishing built in but no great loss and RW publishing engine has always been a source of problems for many. The UI is nicer, you get a drag and drop page builder instead of having to by Stacks + stacks. In a straight RW v Blocs comparison, Blocs wins hands down. It does boil down to what sort of sites you build in RW and what additional functionality you need to include. Not a reflection of Blocs, more lack of time as web design is an interest/hobby. Remember Omnidea? Foreground is a brand of Omnidea.I have both but have not used Blocs (v3) as much as I had hoped to. They are a small Italian software smithy. They have a cool app that gives you rulers on your Mac’s screen and, as Foreground, they also develop some great RapidWeaver plugins. RapidMaps, for instance, lets you insert very flexible Google Maps into your web page… and then there is RapidCart, one of the first e-commerce solutions available for RapidWeaver. RapidCart is a little long in the tooth now and, while it is still a great solution for smaller online stores, it’s not ideal for larger stock lists. So rather than update RapidCart, Foreground has decided to create a completely new store solution - RapidCart Pro (RCP). ![]() OTHER USES FOR RAPIDCART PRO MANAGEMENT UPDATE The decision to do a rewrite solves a number of problems that e-commerce solutions in RapidWeaver have had until now. You’ll see what I mean as we go along.Īdding products to your store is easy. RCP makes use of RapidWeaver’s resources, so you drag your product images there. If you are selling t-shirts, you can either add a blue t-shirt, a yellow t-shirt and a red t-shirt, or you can add a Led Zeppelin t-shirt with options for a blue, yellow, or red shirt. Obviously a variable for the size of the t-shirt can be set in each case. ![]() RCP has support for long product description HTML editing and, if you’re thinking of moving up from RapidCart 3, your existing store can be imported directly into RCP. If you add multiple images to your products, RCP automatically creates a slideshow. If you want to show larger images, just ‘Enable Lightbox’ in Settings. If you offer discounts based on the number of items purchased RCP makes this process a lot easier than in the original RapidCart (I never was terribly good at numeration and found the old process complicated). New laws in Europe dictate that some products must be sold with VAT calculated in the purchaser’s, not in the vendor’s country. RapidCart Pro elegantly solves this problem with a complete editable list of countries. OTHER USES FOR RAPIDCART PRO MANAGEMENT UPDATE. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |