![]() ![]() I was a very heavy Rapidweaver user - used Rapidweaver stand alone and then bought a few of the sey doggy templates as loved their design at the time - and then invested in Stacks to bring rapidweaver alive! and spending a fortune on stacks and loved Joe Workmans stacks, then Foundation came out and the work from from Joe again was brilliant…then my Stacks would not work as I needed an updated version of stacks, then I updated that - then it would not work on old rapidweaver…so had to update that…then some stacks would not work in Foundation at the time…as you can see ! there is a pattern here…It was constant financial investment and then things still not working and then huge slow process to make things work. Sorry for not posting sooner - read the post, but been on the road for 2 days. I’ll also be keeping Blocs and upgrading it to could probably give you an opinion. Personally I’ll be avoiding RW9 and instead going to the Stacks app when it comes out. I have noticed that there are a good few happy people who have gone from RW to Blocs but I haven’t seen any vocal users who have gone from Blocs to RW. More tools at your disposal is always a good thing. I don’t have Blocs Plus, but it might be worth a look to see if it helps with your work flows. #RAPIDWEAVER 9 CODE#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. I have both but have not used Blocs (v3) as much as I had hoped to. ![]()
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