ABOUT THIS SITE

The purpose of this site is to demonstrate the flexibility of sites designed using RapidWeaver and the content serves as a dual purpose. It contains some contents of interest to friends and family, but the main purpose of this content is to illustrate a variety of designs and graphic effects that can be included on a Web Site with this tool.

HDS have included many different themes on this site, to illustrate the wide range of site designs that can be delivered with RapidWeaver. Some have been used, explicitly to illustrate a variety of "navigational" effects. Most of the themes used have also been customised to include unique banners, for example and layouts commensurate with the content.

Click on About Us for further information or Contact Us with your inquiries.

RapidWeaver

This site has been developed using Rapidweaver 5. The essence of an interesting and captive Web site, however, is good graphics. If you are not a graphics designer there is an abundance of good graphics on the web that can be obtained free or for a small charge. We at HDS use such graphics as a starting pint for our own designs and use the tools below to achieve most of our content.

Adobe Photoshop CS5
Adobe Elements (a cut down version of Photoshop but still an excellent tool)
ArtText
Illustrator
Button Builder

RapidWeaver Page Types

Page Types Available
Styled Text Page
Photo Album Page
Movie Album Page
Blog Page
File Sharing Page
A Contact Form Page
Quicktime Movie Page
A Offsite Page
an iFrame Page
A page to insert your own HTML
A Sitemap (Version 5 only)

STACKS

HDS uses a variety of tools to create content within a Web Site. Stacks is one of several plugins that can add rich and dynamic content.

"Stacks is a new way to create pages in RapidWeaver: A plugin designed to combine the drag-and-drop simplicity with the power of fluid layout."

"Stacks lets you build pages that flow text to the dimensions of a theme even if the theme has a variable width. You can build flowing columns, flexible rows, and tiles of images."

"Build columns within columns within rows within columns. Or group a stack of objects inside a box. Almost anything is possible with Stacks."

HARLAXTON DESIGN SERVICES

Harlaxton Design Services
We are a small company based in Grantham Lincolnshire UK, who have evolved from designing Web Sites for friends and colleagues. We have developed our skills over a number many years and specialise in sites for small businesses at very competitive rates.

Designing a site is just the beginning of obtaining a Web presence, and updating on a regular basis. We can be a "one-stop" shop that can either manage your site online, or provide tools within your site to manage your own content.

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