May 21, 2013

Automatic Popover Modal Window in Rapidweaver

Modal PopoverA recent request from an RW User prompted this video tutorial on now to get an automatic popover with a newsletter form in a Rapidweaver created web site. Here is one way to do it in two versions. One that pops on every visit to the page or only the first time as a cookie is set.

All the files are included for this cast as well as the Rapidweaver project file.

RW4 Version:
Download the Files

RW5 Version: (added March 16, 2011)
Download the Files

Please Login or Register with SupportCasts to view the rest of this content.

RWPlugins – WP-Blog – Bring WordPress Into Rapidweaver

WP-Blog for RW & WPThe ease of Rapidweaver and the power of a WordPress Blog are now combined. You can have WordPress inside of your Rapidweaver created website. All you need to know is 4 things to make it work. In this video tutorial we cover these and a few other fine points.

You can find WP-Blog at: http://nilrogsplace.se/plugins/wpblog/

Watch for some tutorials on WordPress coming soon.

Please Login or Register with SupportCasts to view the rest of this content.

Rapidweaver Stacks – ImageMapper – Free Tutorial

ImageMapper StackStacks pages for Rapidweaver give you great control and many options for doing cool things on your web site.

Charlie Lockhart over at Blueball Design has introduced a new Stack call ImageMapper. ImageMapper will give you 3 options for creating image maps on your images. Image maps are hot spots linked to other websites of or web pages that are specific to certain area on the image.

ImageMapper makes it easy to add up to 3 hot spots on each image on your Stacks page. Jump in to our video tutorial and find out how ImageMapper can add a new and fun feature to your website.

Go to the Official ImageMapper Stacks Page

Examples Click Here

Partitions Plugin – Part 4 of 4

Partitions PluginHere’s where it all began for Partitions. Gary Byrd’s second plugin for RapidWeaver.
Join me, Ed Brenner, in this video tutorial for Rapidweaver users, as I start to explore the Partitions plugin CSS Override Panel.

This is the 4th of four screencasts in this video tutorial series.

You can grab a copy of this plugin at RapidWeaverPlugs.

Please Login or Register with SupportCasts to view the rest of this content.

Partitions Plugin – Part 3

Partitions PluginHere’s where it all began for Partitions. Gary Byrd’s second plugin for RapidWeaver.
Join me, Ed Brenner, in this video tutorial for Rapidweaver users, as we start to explore the Partitions plugin Appearance Panel.

This is the third of four screencasts in this video tutorial series.

You can grab a copy of this plugin at RapidWeaverPlugs.

Please Login or Register with SupportCasts to view the rest of this content.

Partitions Plugin – Part 2

Partitions PluginHere’s where it all began for Partitions. Gary Byrd’s second plugin for RapidWeaver.
Join me, Ed Brenner, in this video tutorial for Rapidweaver users, as we start to explore the Partitions plugin Appearance Panel.

This is the Second of four screencasts in this video tutorial series.

You can grab a copy of this plugin at RapidWeaverPlugs.

Please Login or Register with SupportCasts to view the rest of this content.

RW081 SiteLok – Protecting Folders

Hello again

For all of who who have successfully built your membership sites with SiteLok, we have a great treat for you , an exclusive even. (Note: this is only available for 6 or 12 month subscribers to SupportCasts.com)

Sitelok is great for protecting pages, but what about folders? Well that is what we have in store for you today. A special add on script only for SiteLok that will create htaccess protected folder all from the data you hold in the Sitelok membership database.  Run this script manually or via a schedule job (cron job) from your web control panel to ensure your protected folders are in sync with Sitelok all the time.

Our next show will cover setting up an iTunes feed for delivering media content behind this protected folder.

Don’t have Sitelok ? We have a special discount offering you 20% off SiteLok from VibraLogix.com (which we use as the membership database in these screencasts) list price is $39.95 – you save $7.99. Compared to other solutions out there we feel Sitelok offers the best value in getting a membership database setup easily and fast in RapidWeaver.


Please Login or Register with SupportCasts to view the rest of this content.

If you like this post you should check out the complete 2 part series on setting up a membership site(over 90 minutes) that you can download to iTunes ( members only)

jQuery-Animated Header Images – Part 2

Part 2 of our Mini Series on jQuery animated header images. No Flash required! ;-) (sorry Adobe…) In this tutorial I will solve the “ugly page load” issue.
Please Login or Register with SupportCasts to view the rest of this content.

jQuery-Animated Header Images – Part 1

Part 1 of our Mini Series on jQuery animated header images. No Flash required! ;-) (sorry Adobe…) In this video tutorial I go over a bit of history of what works and what issues arise from previous installations. We get the animation working and solve one of two issues. In Part 2 I will solve the “ugly page load” issue.

Please Login or Register with SupportCasts to view the rest of this content.

StyleSwitchr Stack – Unlocking Unlimited Styles – Public

The StyleSwitcher Stack for Rapidweaver is no “One Trick Pony”. More like a lion in sheep’s clothing… In this video tutorial we explore the unlimited style possibilities for giving users different looks and styles to choose from while viewing your web site.

Cheat Sheet download: Click Here

Link to Stack page at BlueBall Design: Click Here

Color Pickers Add-ons:

http://www.rubicode.com/Software/RCWebColorPicker/

http://www.panic.com/~wade/picker/

CSS010 – Custom Stylesheet

Have you ever wanted to take all the custom css and consolidate it? In this video tutorial we show you have to take all the css common to all pages of the Rapidweaver web site and place it in an external stylesheet. One change to that sheet will effect all pages of the site you specify.

Please Login or Register with SupportCasts to view the rest of this content.

CSS3 – Pure Horizontal Accordion

A very nice horizontal accordion with no jquery, mootools or other scripts. Compatible with all modern browsers.

In this video tutorial we will show you have to make adjustments to colors and the size of the accordion to suit your site.

Link to Developers Site – Click Here

You can get all the CSS and the unordered list at the link above.

Please Login or Register with SupportCasts to view the rest of this content.

RWBasics014 – Photo Album

The Rapidweaver Photo Album page style can help you make great looking photo albums or slideshows quickly and easily. In this video tutorial we show you how to setup the iPhoto Album or a Custom Album.

This is the 14th tutorial in the new updated series.

Please Login or Register with SupportCasts to view the rest of this content.

Free Show – symMedia5 Plugin Video & Audio HTML5

Our free show today covers the symMedia5 RapidWeaver plugin from SymfoniP.

This plugin allows you to create a media-rich page easily without worrying about complex coding using Flash in Modern browsers and dealing with any Flash fallback for the browsers that do not yet support HTML 5. Take a look and see what you think.

Oh and if you are not yet a SupportCasts.com member, we have a special deal with SymFoniP . Each purchase of symMedia5  also comes with a 15USD discount code that you can use against a 12 months membership. This offer is valid till the end of April 2010.

Links used in the show:

Video Aspect Ratio Calculator

Video Sizes

Wikipedia on Video