Scapple is the software equivalent of how I work out my rough ideas on paper. (If I didn't hate the word "brainstorming" so much, I'd probably call it brainstorming software.) When I'm in the early stages of any project, whether that's a writing project or a software project, I tend to throw a bunch of ideas down on a big piece of paper, spacing out as-yet unrelated ideas, clustering related notes, and drawing connections between them, trying to work out how everything fits together.

RapidWeaver is a very popular WYSIWYG editor that has rightfully earned many awards from such well-known publications as MacFormar, MacWorld and MacUser. Unlike other WYSIWYG editors, it really does not require knowledge of HTML, using many ready-made templates to build the site.