Jul 16 2010 Filed in:
Video
Release
Two new screencasts have been released to
RapidWeaver Classroom subscribers today. The first
covers the
symTune Image Slider plugin
from SymfoniP, which replicates the look and
feel of the image slider in the iTunes Music
Store. It’s provides a great way of featuring
content on your website, and offers a really
slick presentation of images.
The second tutorial release is located under the
“How to...” lesson in Section 301, and it
walks-through the process of splitting a
RapidWeaver website into multiple project files.
This is great to understand when building large, or
media-intensive websites.
These tutorials are now available to RapidWeaver
Classroom subscribers. Not a subscriber?
Register now or
learn more about
RapidWeaver Classroom!
Tags: RapidWeaver 4, screencasts, RapidWeaver video tutorials,
SymfoniP, symTune Image Slider, Split a RapidWeaver Website
Jun 18 2010 Filed in:
Video
Release
A new tutorial covering the
Speech Bubbles Stack from
Joe Workman is now available to RapidWeaver
Classroom subscribers. This is a pretty
awesome stack that creates speech bubbles with
rounded corners for your content. It’s very
easy to use and accomplishes something that
was once more complex to achieve -- I know
from personal experience, having added speech
bubbles to RapidWeaver Classroom, and trust me
when I say that it wasn’t nearly this easy!
Thanks to Joe for another great stack, and I’m
sure most of us can find good use for it in
our projects.
Tags: RapidWeaver 4, RapidWeaver training, RapidWeaver video tutorials,
screencasts, Joe Workman Stacks, Speech Bubbles Stack, stacks
Jun 04 2010 Filed in:
Video
Release
Two new tutorials are now available that cover the
Doo-Daily and Doo-Spin stacks from
DooBox. Both of these
stacks allow you to add dynamic content to
your pages, either by having different content
load randomly with each visit, or by having
content set to appear depending on the day of
the week. These new tutorials are available
now to RapidWeaver Classroom subscribers.
Tags: RapidWeaver 4, stacks, DooBox, screencasts, RapidWeaver video tutorials
May 28 2010 Filed in:
Video
Release
A new tutorial is now available covering the
symMedia5 plugin from
SymfoniP. This is an
outstanding plugin that allows you to add both
video and audio files to a single page, and
have them play in a single player, with a nice
scroll bar to navigate through and play the
added media. In addition, this plugin supports
HTML5 video playback, and if you aren’t
familiar with the significance of HTML5 video
then you will learn a bit about that as well
in this tutorial.
This is the first tutorial on a plugin from
SymfoniP here at RapidWeaver Classroom, though
there is a FlowBox Stack tutorial available.
SymfoniP has been producing some great RapidWeaver
plugins for mixed media (photo, audio, and video)
-- so they all will be covered in the coming weeks.
Tags: RapidWeaver 4, screencasts, symMedia5 plugin, SymfoniP, RapidWeaver video tutorials
May 21 2010 Filed in:
Video
Release
In the past week I have produced a couple of
walk-throughs for new RapidWeaver themes. Flame,
from
Elixir Graphics, and
Havnit, from
seyDesign are both
ExtraContent-enabled themes with some
phenomenal design and flexibility. These
walk-through videos are available in both the
members’ area and on the
Curriculum page, under
the ExtraContent section. I have also
re-worked that ExtraContent section to include
all the tutorials I’ve produced for
ExtraContent themes -- currently there are 3
each for both seyDesign and Elixir Graphics.
In other news, production of tutorials for the
symMedia5 plugin from SymfoniP are almost complete,
so look for those additions to the members’ area
early next week.
Tags: RapidWeaver 4, ExtraContent, seydesign, Elixir Graphics, theme walk-through
May 14 2010 Filed in:
Video
Release
The 4th tutorial in our CMS series is now available
online to RapidWeaver Classroom subscribers. This
CMS solution involves
Pulse CMS, which is the
first full-blown Content Management System to
be covered. I have chosen to start with Pulse
CMS because you host it on your own server
alongside your website, which is a great
advantage because all of your content exists
on one server, opposed to some of it existing
on another server that you have no control
over.
In advance of viewing this Pulse CMS tutorial, I
recommend viewing the “Working With an FTP
Application” lesson, which can be found under
Section 301 of the tutorials. This lesson will get
you comfortable with publishing files to your
server via FTP, which is required to install Pulse.
More CMS solutions will be covered in the weeks to
come, alongside a variety of custom stacks and even
a few new RapidWeaver plugins.
Tags: RapidWeaver 4, Content Management Systems,
CMS, screencasts
May 13 2010 Filed in:
General
Our Bluehost server started having an issue late
Wednesday night into Thursday morning. The server
was rebooted and services are still being restored.
At the moment none of the PHP pages are
functioning, which prevents registration, login,
and use of contact forms. Bluehost is aware of the
problem and working to remedy it. Hopefully it
won’t be too much longer before services are
restored, and that there will be minimal
inconvenience to RapidWeaver Classroom subscribers.
Thanks for your support and understanding.
Tags: server issues
