Questions - realmacsoftware

Developer Response

chriswall808 — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 19:32:33 +0000

Anyone else having issues filling out the contact form on (RESOLVED) support page?
My super simple question is this: I'd really like to have an 'EMAIL' or envelope as one of the social icons on the Paramount theme. This seems to be the first time I haven't been able to use it.

ALLEVIATE THEME UPDATE: The menu now works thanks to a theme version update. Any suggestions on how I can get my money back on the Alleviate theme? I've embarrassed myself in front of a client after realizing the menu on the theme doesn't appear at all... (standard browser mode and mobile mode) using the latest RW on a MBPRetina running on 10.8.2 I've been waiting for a month for a fix... Is this really 'what I get' for branching out to a new developer??

Any insight from the community would be great.

Previewing Work in Progress

Wanapitei — Mon, 20 May 2013 18:36:34 +0000

I'm still feeling my way around RapidWeaver.

I don't have approval yet to test publish my tests of RapidWeaver. Is the Preview tool at the bottom of the RW editor the only way to preview a work in progress? I'd really like to see how Safari and FireFox handle what I've done. Is that possible without "publishing"?

The built-in preview function, while good, doesn't show how the page will handle in a browser.

I went into View Source, copied what was there, pasted it into Text Wrangler and saved as a HTML file. That displayed just the text, none of the margins and other visual elements which presumably come from the "Theme" I'm using.

Appreciated.

Pathing problems on 404 redirects

bcbounders — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 04:29:45 +0000

The problem I'm having may be specific to my webhost: GoDaddy (I know... I know... lots of people have issues with GoDaddy! LOL!). It manifests itself when a non-existent URL is requested that has additional levels in the directory structure... like: www.domain.com/nonexistent/subdirectory/index.html. My custom 404 page loads (www.domain.com/notfound.html)... but all of the navigation links won't work, because they are referencing a path that is affected by the "/nonexistent/subdirectory/" pathing in the originally-requested URL.

Is there something that I can do to resolve this? I was thinking that I could edit the theme.plist file and add "%base_url%" to the code generating the navigation links... but changes to the "File Links Are:" option under "Setup/Advanced" don't seem to affect the pathing of the RW-generated nav links.

Any thoughts/ideas?

Thanks!

Has anyone added Stripe to their Rapidweaver site, and how?

bkjphilly — Mon, 20 May 2013 17:39:09 +0000

Hello all!

Brian here. I had tried Rapidweaver back in the Version 2 and 3 days, and couldn't get a grasp on it. But, yesterday, I spent an entire day with it, and I can see how "rapid" it can be. Very nice.

Now, I'm working on putting a new website up, and I am looking to have a store page where people will be able to download the music I write directly from me. I had heard a lot of good things about Stripe, and was wondering if anyone had put this e-commerce solution inside of a Rapidweaver website yet.

Now, I have been coding my sites by hand before using Rapidweaver, and I'm sure I could just do this, but trying to learn how it would be added inside of Rapidweaver, and of course just trying it out would be the fastest way to do it, but I like to have a point of reference before I do things. So I can make sure I don't miss anything.

It's probably as easy as creating an HTML page in RW, and pasting the appropriate code in, isn't it. I'll try this when I get home today, but just wanted to know from the RW community if anyone has attempted this, what they found, plusses vs. minuses of doing this vs. that. Thats all.

And, if you're interested in my music, let me know that too! (shameless plug)

Thanks, and I look forward to learning more from you all! I'll contribute what I learn too!

Sincerely,
Brian.

Different site logo on different pages?

MurrayHeasman — Mon, 20 May 2013 11:55:36 +0000

Hi,
I've just signed up and trialling RW. One question - is there a way to vary the site logo (or is it the header image?) on different pages?
Thanks,
Murray

Formsnap question

kryten — Mon, 20 May 2013 10:08:11 +0000

Hi,

Could anyone with Formsnap stacks possibly answer a question for me please?

I just need to know what data input options this product supports? Is it the same as the Formloom plugin?

Specifically I need:-

Drop down lists
Datepicker

Are these included?

I've watched and re-watched the Formsnap video over on YabDab but I just can't make it out. The Formloom video does include coverage of which input types are supported.

Thanks,
Stuart

New User - Help Please

nickcurtis — Sun, 19 May 2013 14:07:27 +0000

Hello
I'm a new user with RapidWeaver V4.4 on a MacBook with OSX 10.5.8
Once i select a Theme i can see all colours, graphics & layout
but when i select Edit all i see is a blank page making it difficult to work with.
Any answers / feedback would be appreciated

Editing themes

Wanapitei — Sun, 19 May 2013 21:39:56 +0000

I've found a plain and simple theme, Multi Flat, that meets my purposes and it's free.

What's involved in editing this theme? Can it be edited within RapidWeaver or should I edit it within a text editor?

I'm new to both RapidWeaver and to HTML in general.

Appreciated.

Wanapitei

slidething stack auto close?

iappuk — Fri, 17 May 2013 12:00:45 +0000

Hi Guys & Gals

Just wondering if it's possible to set the slidething tab to auto close, either on mouse out or perhaps a set period of time?

Where to purchase

niahartman — Sun, 19 May 2013 01:22:57 +0000

I searched for answers but they were all from 2011.

Should I buy rapidweaver from the app store or the realmac web site?
Does one update better than the other?
Does one put more money in the hands of the developers?

Adding anchors

Sler — Mon, 30 May 2011 21:10:35 +0000

hi there i am pretty new to rapidweaver and have just built a site that a single page site. now i want to add some anchors so when i click on my navigation (made from image text boxes in the blocks box theme) it scoots down the page to the appropriate section.

i cant figure out how to do it.

any ideas anyone? i'm on a stupid deadline so any help would be greatly appreciated!

thanks

Sler

database content

Flashback — Sun, 19 May 2013 09:02:16 +0000

Hi!
I'm currently making a biographical website of a composer who died 60 years ago. I have a written list of all his compositions and would like to make that list available on the website. It would be great if I could put them all in some sort of database (or even just an Excel sheet, I think it could be that simple maybe) and generate the pages of every composition automatically, based on the data from that database. Is this possible? And if so, is it possible to let the visitor of the website filter the data, so they can for example only check out the music for orchestra, or only for piano.

Thank you very much for your help!

Creating Slideshow with JQuery plug-in

MacManiac — Sat, 18 May 2013 08:23:58 +0000

I wonder whether anyone can help as I am being driven mad by my inability to create a slideshow in Nimblehost's Gravity Theme. I followed the instructions line by line at

http://www.nimblehost.com/support/docs/

and my slideshow does not appear. A small blue square with a question mark appears, and fades - so the slideshow is working but I cannot get my images to appear.

I see this window in the instructions but cannot work out how to get my images to appear rather than the information shown in the example. My images are in the Resources section of RW 5.

Is it me, or am I just missing the plain obvious?

Font/Text Rendering

kryten — Sun, 19 May 2013 10:49:31 +0000

Hi,

One area that I seem to be struggling with is to produce pages that have really clean and clear fonts. I am using both the LetterPress stack from JW and the Blue Ball GFontStylr stacks.

No matter how I play around with the settings on each I don't seem to be able to produce the crispness and readability evident in, for example, JW's RW page. Take JW's "We have what you are looking for" text on his RW page. I cannot seem to replicate that clarity and crispness.

Does anyone have any tips or tricks for rendering styled text as crisp as that?

Thanks,
Stuart

Regarding this forum

Wanapitei — Sat, 18 May 2013 22:01:51 +0000

I'm a new RapidWeaver user, still learning way around.

I am experiencing extreme sluggishness with this forum site — frequent refusals to load at all at http://forums.realmacsoftware.com/post/discussion/questions or http://forums.realmacsoftware.com/post/discussion/ or even http://forums.realmacsoftware.com/

While I'm in the midst of posting this message appears "The service is temporarily unavailable."

I have a very fast connection to the net and experience nothing like these issues elsewhere. What gives?

Appreciated.

Co-existing with Windows website editors

Wanapitei — Sat, 18 May 2013 21:49:43 +0000

I am recommending RapidWeaver for a non-profit. However only a few of us are Mac users. Is there an editing environment on Windows that can readily edit RapidWeaver generated files without depth knowledge of HTML?

I'd like to override an objection to locking out PC users from editing the site.

Appreciated.

Wanapitei

Extra Character in my header.

slotownguy — Sat, 18 May 2013 16:32:04 +0000

Just setting up my page and I can't get rid of this extra character that is showing up in my page header.

Don't know if this would cause problems with search engines.

Any ideas will be helpful.

Thank you!

Sign Up form on the landing page

Lucia — Tue, 14 May 2013 20:08:16 +0000

Hello
Could anyone tell me what do I need to do/use to have a Sign Up form on the landing page?
Thank you,
Lucia

Warehousing Images on Flickr

Encinitas_Surfboards — Thu, 16 May 2013 23:49:50 +0000

I'm attempting to finally warehouse my images to free up some room to grow my website. I decided to use Flickr, as they've been around a while and I'm familiar with their site. My problem is that I don't know code... at all. I'm self-taught at this web design thing and I'm learning as I go.

I'm using these images to create my product pages and I'm trying to redesign my site to look more like some other sites I've used. I want to be able to do one of two things when clicking on an image on my site.

1. I want to link the image to another page in my site
2. I want nothing to happen when clicking on other images on my site.

Right now when I click on the image it takes me to the photo on Flickr. I NEVER want that to happen. I'm hoping someone can tell me in laymen's terms how to make the two things I mentioned above happen in place of taking my customers off-site to Flickr. Or alternately, if someone knows of a stack which will do this for me in place of me having to deal with code? All I seem to find are gallery based add-ons and none of them seem to do what I want.

I'm pasting a copy of the code Flickr is generating for me:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/95786663@N07/8745786446/" title="Icon Tank Top Main by encinitas_surfboards, on Flickr">http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7300/8745786446_446517cbf5_m.jpg" width="240" height="240" alt="Icon Tank Top Main">

I would appreciate any help you can give me, as I am getting in over my head, but I really want to continue growing my site! As it is, I have maxed out my space and Rapidweaver is currently hating me!

Thank you!
-Merit

http://www.encinitassurfboards.com

Rapid Cart help

PrecisionGem — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 02:57:44 +0000

I am looking at buying Rapid Cart to upgrade from Payloom. On my site, I sell one of kind gemstones, so there is only 1 stone to be sold. The problem I have with Payloom is once someone purchases a stone, it's not marked sold, and someone else can also purchase it. Will Rapid Cart remove the "1" for qty once a purchase is made?

Rapidcart Help- what am I missing?

mystweave — Wed, 15 May 2013 00:46:19 +0000

Hello, can anyone make sense of these attachments? I am trying to add size options to my T-shirts, I make the options in the Product options Page but when I go to preview it and click on the arrows for it to drop down It's not working? Am I missing something simple here?

Also, I have limited stock, is there anyway to set the number to say 5 shirts and when they are sold it clicks to out of stock? I know you can set a limit and it then wont add to cart but this may be confusing for people and is this limit per customer or the total limit.

Please help me over these last hurdles so I can finally get my shop online.
Thanks
Dan

Problem duplicating my customized theme, and then customizing that one

HenryKrinkle — Thu, 16 May 2013 08:02:33 +0000

I made a duplicate of a SeyDesigns CRE4MY, then customized that duplicate and built my website with it. (For the sake of clarity, we'll call that customized duplicate: "CRE4MY-Custom 1".)

I'd now like to duplicate "CRE4MY-Custom 1", making what we'll call "CRE4MY-Custom 2".

I'd then like to tweak "CRE4MY-Custom 2" a little bit (different text content, different banner photos) to make a website for a colleague. (So basically, it'll look exactly the same as "CRE4MY-Custom 1", except for the banner photos and some of the text.)

I know I can use the Page-Specific Theme menu within "CRE4MY-Custom 2" to bring in the look of "CRE4MY-Custom 1", but unfortunately, this also brings in the banner photos of "CRE4MY-Custom 1".

Is there a way to have "CRE4MY-Custom 2" import the look of "CRE4MY-Custom 1"—yet allow me to tweak "CRE4MY-Custom 2" independently (primarily the banner photos), without affecting "CRE4MY Custom 1"?

How to link buttons to the nav JS in Photogenic?

becca shillito — Thu, 16 May 2013 11:58:05 +0000

Hi all

I have been struggling with making my site scroll horizontally for a while so when I saw thePhotogenic theme from trusty @Will Woodgate I bought it.

The result it here: http://www.studioshillito.co.uk/test/index.html

What I would like to do now however, is link the next and previous buttons and the hyperlinks in the "how it works" section to the JS that controls the lovely scrolling (click on one of the nav items to see it in action!) I'm sure this isn't too difficult but I have already proved fairly hopeless when it comes to fully understanding JS.

I'm guessing that the buttons will probably need their own bit of code that tells them to travel through the sections of the site...!?!

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Cheers

Becca

Google Analytics in top Corner of Page

imastun — Wed, 15 May 2013 02:24:31 +0000

I am having an issue in which Google Analytics appears in the top left hand corner of each of my pages. e.g. http://2slicesproductions.com
i've tried inserting the tracking code into each header section as well as the rapidweaver page that is found at the bottom of the sidebar in the program, both keep the code in the corner, what am I missing or doing wrong?

converting files & suggestions

mignon — Tue, 14 May 2013 17:35:29 +0000

Hello:

This may be a stupid question but where can I find a converter to convert mp3files to .ogg files?

Also - I am looking for a stacks plug in that I can use to make- a mp3 playlist on where I can pull the files from dropbox that preferably doesn't require PHP- any suggestions??

Thanks for the help!

Client Portal

fortytwolimes — Wed, 15 May 2013 10:42:09 +0000

I need a plugin that will enable my client to create a secure area for their clients to upload and download files. A bit like a drop box within their site that they can manage? Any ideas?

Thanks

Error trying to Publish

ptaazfreeman — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 18:03:06 +0000

Hello ... I'm getting this error ... NSMutableRLEArray replaceObjectsInRange:withObject:length:: Out of bounds
What do I do?

Unable to save- Size issue?

mignon — Mon, 13 May 2013 15:35:26 +0000

Hello:

I have been using rapidweaver to design websites for about a year now.I use the latest version of stacks as my main plug in design tool because I am not a real web designer or developer. Currently I am working on a large website that is 49.5 MB and 35 pages total.

Recently rapidweaver has been refusing to save the new edits. I am current on all updates. and appear to have plenty of space on my computer hard drive. Does anyone know why this is happening? Is my site to big for rapidweaver? I have already designed 2 other sites with no problems so i am not sure why this happening but again I am not the most knowledgable on this.

Also I have another website that i update frequently stored in rapidweaver- do I need to pull this site off to have enough space?

Again any suggestions or help is appreciated.

Sincerely,
Mignon Murrell

Importing WordPress Blog Posts into RW

Chris123 — Tue, 14 May 2013 17:09:31 +0000

Maybe a silly question, but is it possible to import a WordPress Blog into a RW project, similar to what I typically do with Google Blogger by using RapidBlog? I have a client with 77 blog posts and wondered if there is something that will allow me to import just the blog content, without all the WordPress theme junk.

Thanks,
Chris

Perhaps a stupid question...but I'm having a problem

kenmcchord — Mon, 13 May 2013 21:27:44 +0000

I have a website that seems to be working great except for one small issue. I added a stacks page with PowerGrid CSV that is importing a google spreadsheet, all is working great with it.

When I was still building the page I had a few different "experimental" pages going, pages I could upload to the server so I could see how they look. (you can't preview PG CSV with a google table, it needed to be uploaded to see what you've got). Anyway one of the pages I was using I named "test ratings" and I have since deleted the page through RW, or at least I thought I did.

Now when I view my site the first page that loads is www.hopvectorsbeerclub.com In that page the "test ratings" page is still active in the menu tab, and I can actually navigate to that page. If I click any other tab in the menu, then return to the "home" tab the website url becomes www.hopvectorsbeerclub.com/home.html and on that page the correct "Beer Ratings" tab is displayed.

I have no idea how to remove the old "test ratings" page from the site. Furthermore I have no idea what the difference is between the .com page and the .com/home.html. Can anyone help me get this straightened out please, I am sure it must be something stupid I am overlooking but I can figure this out.

I attached a few images to help explain. Thanks in advance for the help, this place is a life saver!

Which CMS for gallery of images and captions?

Langley — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 17:17:16 +0000

Being relatively new to web design (designed for print for 35 years) I haven't yet attempted to integrate any kind of CMS for any of my clients. I have looked at the various options available including PageLime, Pulse, and Armadillo but without trying them all out I am at a loss as to which would be the most appropriate for my needs.

I am putting together a new site for an antique dealer who would like to be able to edit pictures and captions (descriptions of each item) inside a set of galleries. The galleries will consist of scrollable walls of images each of which would be clickable and appeart in a lightbox.

The images and text/captions need to be edited (removed, added to, changed etc) by group of people located in different parts of the country.

Does anyone of you have any experience of using CMS in such a situation and please could you recommend which CMS would be suitable?

Thanks you for taking the time to read.
From a happy but not so rapid Rapidweaver.

Responsive Columns

essentialclassic — Mon, 13 May 2013 21:35:51 +0000

How can I make columns responsive? Not just text within columns but I mean the columns would go from side by side to on top of each other.

I'm using A Blank Theme and Stacks 2.

Pagelime - Non Stack Usage

doralevich — Tue, 14 May 2013 13:26:50 +0000

Hey All,
I've been successfully using Joe's Pagelime stack, although there are parts of a site that I'd like editable that are just plain text, can't add a stack like a header of an image stack.

I know there are CMS codes and Div's that can be entered so that those areas become editable. Any suggestions as to how I can implement this?

For Example. FAQ Stack by Kuler Solutions.
I can add a pagelime stack so the answers are editable, but the questions just allow me to enter them in text. Would like to make those questions editable.

Thanks...

How to set up a fill in form with unique code?

djyamo — Tue, 14 May 2013 13:02:09 +0000

Hi,

I would need a solution that allows me to make a fill in form which is either only accessible with a unique code or can be send with the use of a unique code.

I will have a list of 75.000 unique codes (10character combination of letters and numbers) in an excell file, so I can make a comma generated file of it. These codes will be given through a magazine to 75.000 people.

With this code they should have access (ONLY ONCE per code!) to the fill in form / or with this code they should be able to (also ONLY ONCE) send the fill in form. The fill in form is created for a big competetion for winning tickets.

For winning tickets people must have at least one code per entry (so they have to buy a magazine to get one code) and they must fill in all their details (name, email, address) and they must have the ability to upload a (jpg) file as well.

I have looked already on the website but didn't find it yet how to integrate this in my RapidWeaver site.

Jan

Site rendering wrong in Safari after 2nd attempt

VisionLab — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 01:10:44 +0000

Greetings and thanks for checking this out. Here is my issue:

I have been finalizing a website for my new company over the past few weeks. I'm more of an entrepreneur than a web designer... Last week, the site began to render improperly in Safari on my MacBrook Pro and iMac, yet continued to work fine in Safari on iPad and iPhone as well as Firefox. The weirdest part of it to me, which may shed light on the situation, is that the site loads properly on the first attempt in Safari then goes wrong. Meaning, if you go to home page, it will appear correct the first time. Then, if you click the nav bar to redirect to home from another page, it will be appear wrong. Upon numerous attempts to refresh the page, it may go back to being correct 1 out of 25 times. The same issue repeats throughout the site.

Site : www.visionlabart.com

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks : )

Can you put a link in a Custom Header in RW 4?

Warren — Mon, 13 May 2013 19:51:34 +0000

I am trying to put an image with a link in a Custom Header in a page in Rapid Weaver 4. It shows the image but the link doesn't work. Note that taking out the image and putting in some text shows a bit of text styled as a link but clicking 0it also doesn't work.

Is this possible?



 
  


http://www.page.com">;
http://www.page.com/images/main/
main_sliced_02.gif">



TITLE MESSAGE

Split navigation: impossible?

Dick Sijtsma — Fri, 03 May 2013 11:36:28 +0000

Hi there,

is it in anyway possible to build websites in RapidWeaver with split-navigation? I mean: first level pages horizontal, second level pages vertical? Or is it just not in the nature of RW?

searchable database

McStamp — Mon, 13 May 2013 18:34:46 +0000

Hi out there! Does anybody know about a decent plugin or stack which helps me to build a database that can later be searched on my RW-Site? Would love to hear abou!
Thx!
Rudolf

Snaps versus full plugins

kryten — Mon, 13 May 2013 18:56:58 +0000

Hi,

Looking to extend my toolkit a little and buy a form tool as well as a payment system.

For me it seems to come down to Formloom versus Form Snaps and Payloom versus Pay Snaps.

I know the basic differences (plugin type pages versus the modularity of stacks), but wondered if anyone had any experiences of both types and had any opinions on which option worked out best?

Is there anything that one variant can do that the other cannot for example?

Would appreciate any opinions or experiences of these products.

Thanks,
Stuart

Offering free digital download help?

howardcooper82 — Sun, 12 May 2013 16:44:06 +0000

I want to have a form on a stacks page that offers a free report (digital download) in exchange for an email address? Any suggestions as to what I can use for this? I want to avoid using ecommerce solutions if necessary as they often make the visitor go through the act of buying something (paypal etc) when it is just a free download.

Any help would be appreciated

Howard Cooper
www.creatingmore.co.uk