September 2, 2010

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.

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Make your Videos playback faster with S3/CloudFront

In our class today for members (sorry this is not for Day Pass users), I am going to walk you through the key steps in using S3 and CloudFront to deliver your rich media files in RapidWeaver (in my example today we are using video)

Now , I have been using S3 ever since it was first launched a couple of years ago in addition to the more recent CloudFront service. The initial videos we delivered when starting SupportCasts were delivered over S3. However, we now use a commercial CDN offering too but our image storage is handled by S3 for all those who want to know.

Whilst I will not go into the boring details of signing up , if you have an Amazon.com account you are almost there as these are extra add-on services. What I will show you is the following:

  • S3 setup with the AWS management console
  • bucket creation
  • File permissions
  • configuring CloudFront
  • using the media file in RapidWeaver.

After going through the initial setup,  using S3 is a breeze and you will find it is a useful addition to compliment your web hosting which may not be so hot in delivering rich media in other words not great bandwidth throughput and general scalability which is always a problem with shared hosting. Not unless you running your own VPS ;)

Brace yourself for a nice 18 minutes of geeky fun, mistakes and all, and let us know what you think about delivering your videos over CloudFront/S3 (c’mon folks it was a rainy Sunday afternoon here).

Have fun and remember this lesson is only available for 6 and 12 month memberships.

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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.

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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.

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RW082 Custom 404 Pages

Hi there

We always get asked how about making a custom 404 error page in RapidWeaver. Well folks, today is your lucky day :)

Why a custom 404 error page? The reason is quite simple you want to retain,attract and direct the attention of your visitor. It’s not their fault they have entered something incorrectly and got a dull looking page that does not resemble your web site.

Another plus is that is great for search engines, you never know they might stumble on a bad page so you can have links in your new 404 page to go back to where they should be looking.

In todays show, I will walk you through:

  • creating a custom 404 error page in RapidWeaver, more specifically page settings.
  • editing the htaccess file ,
  • what to put in the htaccess file for the 404 page

Yes, all of that in 5 minutes .  So what are you waiting for …. ?

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Partitions Plugin – Introduction

Partitions PluginHere’s where it all began for Partitions. Gary Byrd’s second plugin for RapidWeaver.
Join me as we start to explore the Partitions plugin and how you can use it in your web design layouts to impact your content in a variety of ways.

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

You can grab a copy of this plugin at RapidWeaverPlugs.

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Styled Text Plus Plugin for Rapidweaver

Styled Text PlusStyled Text Plus is a sweet little plug-in designed by Gary Byrd.

He’s taken the standard Styled Text page in RapidWeaver and added a Header and Footer area. This makes the page style all the more powerful by providing a way for you to layout your content in various sections.

Join me in the video tutorial as we take a look at this great addition to any RapidWeaver toolbox.

You can purchase the Styled Text Plus plug-in over at RapidWeaverPlugs.

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RWBasics015 – Blog Page Style

This video tutorial is the start of a multi-part series on the Rapidweaver Blog page type. Part one covers the Page Inspector setup for the Blog except for the Advanced Tab. Things like Podcasting and iTunes setup which will be covered in the next part.

This is the 15th tutorial in the new updated series.

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