weaverFM: Amazing New Plugin

I love using the wonderful RapidWeaver softwareprogram that allows people to develop great websites with much less pain and confusion relative to using something like Dreamweaver (and hence the product's name). It's a powerful software program that also has spawned a number of third-party developers creating plugins for RapidWeaver.

About two weeks ago a new plugin was released for Rapidweaver named weaverFM where the FM stands for file management. weaverFM allows you to have a cloud-based file management system on your website where designated users (e.g. students) can upload materials, download them, create folders, and so on. It's almost as if the website is a natural extension of their own computer's desktop!

This is certainly one of the most significant plugins to be developed for RapidWeaver. I'm enthusiastically using it this semester in one of my classes. There are three key ways to learn more about this product:

1. The RapidWeaver Central website has published a very comprehensive review of the software. Check out their weaverFM review (complete with many screenshots).
2. I've created a 17 minute tutorial (for my students) about how to use this feature of my course website. The tutorial won't show you how to use weaverFM, but it will give you some decent detail about some specific ways it could be implemented in a classroom environment. You can download my tutorial (keep in mind that it's a 75 Mb download).
3. Third, you can visit the man himself, Gregory Barchard, who created this amazing plugin. His website provides additional details about the plugin and how to use it. So meander on over to Greg Barchard's website.

weaverFM costs $29.95—a bargain given the power that it gives you to do some very interesting things. Before weaverFM I couldn't have done the same thing spending a $100 or $300 or more. So this plugin is a breakthrough both in power and in terms of its low price.

Sometime in the summer I'll write an extensive review based on my semester-long experiences implementing it in one classroom.