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Make your Videos playback faster with S3/CloudFront

August 15, 2010 by Leave a Comment

In our class today for members, 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

August 13, 2010 by 2 Comments

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

August 10, 2010 by Leave a Comment

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

August 7, 2010 by 2 Comments

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

August 5, 2010 by Leave a Comment

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

July 29, 2010 by Leave a Comment

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

July 21, 2010 by 3 Comments

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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RW081 SiteLok – Protecting Folders

July 6, 2010 by 1 Comment

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.


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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)

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jQuery Animated Headers – Nivo Slice Animation

May 20, 2010 by Leave a Comment

In this video tutorial we will look at changing from using the Cycle jQuery Plugin to the Nivo Slider for a different effect. It’s easy and gives you a few more options. Make sure you have seen jQuery Animated Headers Part 1 and Part 2 for the foundation to what I am doing here.

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CMS012 – Pulse and Project Organization Part 2

May 18, 2010 by Leave a Comment

In this video tutorial we are going to take a look at using Pulse with the standard HTML and Styled Text page plug-ins that come stock in RapidWeaver. As well as a 3rd party plug-in, Styled Text +.

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CMS011 – Pulse and Project Organization – Part 1

May 6, 2010 by Leave a Comment

Hi, this is Ed. I’ve started to get a few questions about PulseCMS, clients and control. I figured the best place to start would be with you and how you can organize and control what happens inside the project file.

In this video tutorial for Rapidweaver we will look at 2 Pulse specific Stacks and the cssStack.

Glenn Thomas’ Pulse Stack is available here:
http://masaweb.info/page12/page12.html


And my Stack is available here:

http://myrapidweaver.us/Warehouse/Stacks/Pulse.stack.zip


The 3rd Stack is available in the RapidWeaver Forums. You will find the post about it here:

http://www.realmacsoftware.com/forums/index.php/forums/viewthread/22834/

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jQuery-Animated Header Images – Part 2

April 30, 2010 by Leave a Comment

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.
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jQuery-Animated Header Images – Part 1

April 30, 2010 by 4 Comments

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.

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CMS010-PulseCMS Content and Stacks Plug-In Sliders

April 26, 2010 by Leave a Comment

In this video tutorial we will be looking at using our Pulse content in a Stacks plug-in add-on, the Styled Text Slider, from Jonas.
The Stack used in that screencast is available as part of a set of Stacks available here – http://www.jonasthemes.com/stacks/slider/

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