Tips, Tricks and How To's - realmacsoftware

Using Scrivener to write your website

mitchellm — Tue, 28 May 2013 13:21:08 +0000

For a long time I found writing content in Rapidweaver very unsatisfactory. While RW does a lot of things well, it's not very pleasant for creating text content. I now use RW only for "design" but not for "text content."

My web-writing partner is Scrivener. Now all my pages can be Stacks (using HTML stacks) or HTML pages. I can easily incorporate other stacks (images, tables, etc.) within Scrivener via the magic of the Houdini stack.

This new workflow greatly increases my enjoyment and productivity for writing web content.

I've created an 11 minute tutorial showing how I've set this up with Scrivener, RW, and the Houdini stack. This approach is mainly helpful for those who use a fair amount of written text at their sites.

Here's the relevant Vimeo link if interested:
Scrivener for Web Writing

Insertting a photo into a header theme

Gene — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 11:53:07 +0000

Hi,

I am using the Baukraft theme and I've replace the photo in it with one relevant for my company. My problem is getting the new photo to have the correct size, boarder and placement as the "stock" photo in the Baukraft theme. Any help would be appreciated. The new photo is attached.

Gene

I Want it to be Hoverable, But not Clickable

aggieclint — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 17:43:06 +0000

Hey everyone, quick question.

I am using Rapid Weaver with the Gravity theme. There are a couple of links in my menu that I would like to be hoverable, but not clickable. I want it to be hoverable, so it can drop down to sub-menus, but I don't want anyone to be able to click on it.

You can look at my site below. Check out the links to "questions" or "info." These links are blank. I want to disable those links so people cannot click on them, but I want the sub-menus to still drop down. Does that make sense? If not, I can try to explain more. Thanks for your help in advance!

Clint

http://gospelchurchgdansk.pl/index.html

Contact info as a Menu Item?

Ed_Anderson — Sat, 08 Jun 2013 16:31:13 +0000

Hi there,

noticed a great feature on this website where if you scroll over the contact us menu item - their contact information is available in the body of the drop down mega-menu including an image linked to their contact us page. (see attached image)

Any suggestions how one could achieve this in RW? - or alternatively is there a theme that might be able to replicate this feature.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions

Cheers

Bushman

simple alternative to captcha

rocklobster — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 16:10:57 +0000

I'm about to publish my first site with rapid weaver and have looked into the issues with the contact form. Implementing captcha seems doable but too complicated. i also hope RW will include this or similar facility. Or at least some very basic validation for the contact plugin.

In the mean time, is there a great reason why creating a set of radio boxes that are required wouldn't greatly reduce bots?

i made up a question with a list of answers and you have to choose one -- and choose one of the right ones -- to send the mail.

maybe i just don't know enough how bots work -- maybe they will try them all.

How to clear duplicate title tags when using RapidBlog?.... Help Required Please

Rapid_Pixels — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 19:30:46 +0000

We are struggling to clear the Duplicate title tags with google webmaster tools.

See screenshot.

Nibbler, an exciting new web utility

Andreas Belivanakis — Fri, 28 May 2010 19:57:22 +0000

I'd like to bring the attention of the RapidWeaver community to an exciting new web utility called Nibbler.

Nibbler is a web-based utility, still in alpha, that tests web sites using objective criteria and assigns a score from 0 to 10. It just so happens, that in my limited testing, my RapidWeaver-based designs get a relatively high score of 6.7 to 9.0 compared to my clueless, Microsoft Windows-using, FrontPage2003-wielding, table-for-layout applying, Windows-1253 encoding, sorry excuse for competition.

You may visit my website http://www.milosweb.com to view a couple of flash-based presentations on Nibbler test scores. The lowest score a website of mine has received thus far has been 6.7, and that's for an under-construction website! This score is also the highest my hapless competition could muster. I swear, I had nothing to do with it. It was all RealMac's RapidWeaver and the excellent theme designs of Henk Vrieselaar and seyDoggy I have been using, as well as the various plug-ins of the conscientious RapidWeaver developers.

It would be interesting to see how the websites of the rest of you score on Nibbler. I'd like to ask that all who read this message respond by publishing the URL of your website(s) with their associated Nibbler score(s), plus the website's age.

To start, I'd like to publish my highest scoring website:

www.milosweb.com - Nibbler: 9.0 - website age: 2006

At the same time, I'd like to invite all RapidWeaver theme and plug-in developers to chime in, with comments on how their themes and plug-ins are (or can be) optimized further for SEO and higher Nibbler scores.

Andreas

What do use to create a schedule?

chg2winter — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 23:37:40 +0000

I need to create and post a schedule to my website.

It would be a time, then 5 possible events at that time you could be doing. Although at other times, only 2 event. The schedule would be hourly.

Any ideas?

How do I remove .html extension from my pages

figureight — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 18:46:24 +0000

Hi i've searched the net on how to remove and just can't find something that works.

I've cruftless link in Rapidweaver ticked but this doesn't work, this is on several different themes too.

I've tried looking at the .htaccess file but can't get a formula that works.

Can anyone help me with this?

thanks in advance for any help

How to pull listings from another site into mine?

fuegobeard — Sun, 05 May 2013 12:54:13 +0000

Hello,
Had a questions about how to pull lists from other sites into a feed window on my site - for example and I were doing a query about "travel" jobs from a job listings site (say monster.com), how could I pull the results that would come up into a feed there, that would display those results on my site, but not necessarily have the layout frame of the search engine site? Does that make sense? Is that even possible? I have JoeWorkman's offsite stacks, but its not quite what Im looking for. If anyone has any advice on how to do what Ive described above, Im all ears and appreciative of any comments
Cheers
Chris

Formsnap Form Validation / Custom Captcha

RickOC86 — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 00:45:02 +0000

I'd like to share a tip for custom form validation when using FormSnap.

In the following example, the form has a text field named "sum" with the label "2+2=".

An error is returned if the entered value does not equal 4.

The following code is entered in the "PHP Custom Code" field under settings.

$sum=($_POST['form']['sum']);
if ($sum!="4") 
{array_push($errors, "2+2 does not equal $sum") ;}

Rick (@RickOC86 on Twitter)

Text over custom backroung image

Leoberlini — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 02:09:31 +0000

Hi there,

I am using the Manitoba theme and would like to make a custom background image and then edit my text on top of it and place the text where I need it to be.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

Page without logo

MarkfromChile — Thu, 30 May 2013 16:42:02 +0000

Hello to all!

I would like to include a set of pages in my project that don't have my usual logo on it. When I uncheck logo in the settings menu, it removes the logo from ALL the pages, not just from the pages I want. How can I do this?

Thanks, mark

www.korke.com

Elements outside the stack container

philn67 — Sat, 11 May 2013 08:37:43 +0000

One thing I struggle with in RW is being confined to stack boxes, and how to have elements or graphics that break out of these. Joe Workmans page is a great example of breaking out of the box http://joeworkman.net/
Take a look at the sidebar which has joes toolbox graphic overlaid at the top and spilling into the header area, then there is the "Featured" box, which has the title breaking out of the box area. I presume this is all to do with padding and margin settings? What I don't understand is how you can have the toolbox image that appears on the right to be way past the left side of the other columns. RW is basically columns and grids, so how do I go about layouts like this that allow me to break out of it?

How to upload to site when mobile

Mats — Fri, 31 May 2013 08:07:03 +0000

I'm just about to embark on a longer sailingtrip and would like to keep my homepage up to date when on the move. Today I use Rapidweaver on my stationary Mac at home. Can I download another version of the software(using same key) on my Macbook Air? and can I then download my project so that I can continue to update my homepage.

Help on how to would be very much appreciated!

Newbie's guide to Dewplayer with multiple mp3 files in a popup window [see UPDATE for IE friendly co

ticocats — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 21:03:04 +0000

OK, I'm the newbie. But I've received great help from these forums, and so decided to post my method (arrived at after a lot of trial and error, attempting to use various suggestions/tutorials I found here and elsewhere) for having a popup window with an mp3 player that displays name/artist while playing. I am not a coder, so maybe some experts can improve on these instructions. Other BIG caveat: I haven't yet tested this on IE, but it works well on my Mac with Chrome/Safari/Firefox.

I purchased the mp3 stack but abandoned it after many hours of frustration trying to get it to display name/artist.

Then I discovered the free Dewplayer - eureka! It displays the tags that the mp3 stack refused to do and is a breeze to set up.

Here's the short version of what I did:

1) download Dewplayer files
2) on server, place your mp3 files and the dewplayer-multi.swf file
3) use code generator on Dewplayer home page, inserting correct name/location of your mp3 files. Copy resulting code and modify it to reflect location of the dewplayer-multi.swf file. Create snippet containing the modified code.
4) if not using popup window, just drag the snippet to where ever you want the player to appear.

If using popup, these additional steps:
5) create small, simple page to be the popup window, drag the code snippet onto it, add whatever text you want; disable "show in menu".
6) create code to open the popup and link it to whatever page/part of your site from which you want to launch the popup.

And here are the full details:

1) at the Dewplayer site, download the player and other files, and use the code generator tool to on their home page to create the code to insert on your RapidWeaver page, choosing from the various options offered: http://www.alsacreations.fr/dewplayer-en.

I opted to use their multi-player, to place the mp3s and the Dewplayer files on a folder on my server called "music" and to use full path names although I'm not sure this part is necessary. (If you'd rather use their playlist version, see here:
http://www.realmacsoftware.com/forums/index.php/forums/viewthread/27415.)

The only files that needed to be on my server were (a) dewplayer-multi.swf and (b) the actual mp3 files. In the part of the code generator that asks for URL(s) of the mp3 files, I inserted this:

http://www.americancolonycr.com/music/2am_beaut.mp3|http://www.americancolonycr.com/music/1col_gem.mp3|http://www.americancolonycr.com/music/3anchors.mp3|http://www.americancolonycr.com/music/4battle.mp3|http://www.americancolonycr.com/music/5rolling.mp3|http://www.americancolonycr.com/music/6marine.mp3| http://www.americancolonycr.com/music/7fanfare.mp3

I then copied the code that was generated, and modifed it to show the location of the dewplayer-multi.swf file. My resulting code looked like this (note that I chose the option for auto-start and loop since my player is on a pop-up window):

<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://www.americancolonycr.com/music/dewplayer-multi.swf"; width="240" height="20" id="dewplayer" name="dewplayer">
[param name="movie" value="dewplayer-multi.swf" /]
[param name="flashvars" value="mp3=http://www.americancolonycr.com/music/2am_beaut.mp3|http://www.americancolonycr.com/music/1col_gem.mp3|http://www.americancolonycr.com/music/3anchors.mp3|http://www.americancolonycr.com/music/4battle.mp3|http://www.americancolonycr.com/music/5rolling.mp3|http://www.americancolonycr.com/music/6marine.mp3| http://www.americancolonycr.com/music/7fanfare.mp3&autostart=1&autoreplay=1&bgcolor;="003366"; /]
</object>

I saved this code as a snippet in RW. If you don't want to use a popup page, just drag the generated/modified code snippet onto whatever page you want the player to appear.

2) My group wants visitors to be able to keep music playing continuously while browsing the site, so I created a very simple page to serve as the popup window (no menu, sidebar, etc. -- just a small header image, the player code and general instructions for using it. I disabled "the show in menu" option for the page. I used a blocks page for this, although I might re-do it with styled text. I also used the blockbox theme for this page only, since it makes it easy to create a 300 px wide, stripped down page.

I created an image to serve as a prominent link to the player and used code found here (options for text or image link) to launch the popup: http://www.dreamincode.net/code/snippet214.htm

My modified code, which I placed in the sidebar body, is an image link:

[update: oops. see post below for this]

The result:

http://americancolonycr.com/ (in sidebar) and
http://americancolonycr.com/galleries/ (in page body)

Design disclaimer: I used a rather large and somewhat garish image to serve at the launcher for the popup, because it was the only way I could convince the president of the group whose site I'm making to forego having music play automatically as soon as the site loads.

Any suggestions/comments much appreciated.

Fixing the width of responsive theme?

philn67 — Sun, 26 May 2013 19:33:37 +0000

is there any way I can fix the width of a responsive theme if it doesn't have the built in function?

blue ball free stacks

doug8 — Sun, 19 May 2013 08:10:14 +0000

My onsite telephone numbers are appearing automatically in red when the site is viewed on a mobile device. I need to change this. Can anyone help. Many thanks

Hiding Flash Element to Mobile Users

durgadas — Tue, 14 May 2013 06:13:51 +0000

Hi. I don't want an entirely new webpage to be displayed to deal with this one element, but I might have to.

What I want is that the Web site at: http://wmocradio.net display a flash element ONLY to desktop users who might have it installed.

I specifically want to avoid the loading delay and error that happens on ALL mobile devices because of the Flash element present.

Even using the Agent-X stack like I am from Doobox, this element still pops an error on all mobile devices. Any ideas?

Adding a form to rapid cart

schnooky1000 — Sat, 11 May 2013 08:29:11 +0000

Hi there all of you awesome RP folks....I have a question, I am using rapidcart and it has been awesome and functions perfectly well. However! I would really like a customizable form that my customers have to fill out prior to purchasing something so that i get the data rather than having to emailing them back and so on and so forth.

The cart i am referring to is

http://www.dorsetdance.com/newyearswingflingbookings.html

I have tried using wufoo but they cost a fortune....

Any other suggestion are welcomed

Thanks in Advance

Buttons to save files to Google Drive

Will Woodgate — Thu, 09 May 2013 20:12:09 +0000

This feature was introduced today by Google. I have put together a blog post explaining how you can get this setup in your own RapidWeaver projects:
http://www.willwoodgate.com/index_files/save-to-google-drive-buttons.html

Basic Question

Nevis8 — Wed, 08 May 2013 16:03:10 +0000

I've got to edit some code and I need to find the index.html file.

cant find this anywhere - can someone give me a clue ?

Thanks

Moving a page project>project

Nevis8 — Wed, 08 May 2013 09:58:29 +0000

How do I move the contents of a page to a new page in another project. I've tried copy and paste of the source code but that doesnt work.

any help appreciated.

Thanks

RW & blog?

David S — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 02:04:25 +0000

Trying to set up a blog with RW5. It's maddening how little from-the-start how-to documentation there is.

I'm using RW 5.2.2; Stacks 2; FreeStack; Mac 10.6.8.

Options I've attempted to use so far:

RW + Tumblr
Why do I have to open and use a Tumblr blog to blog with RW? Why the redundancy?

RapidBlog v.1.32
Likewise, does RB require I already have a BlogSpot blog? why the redundancy?

Can I make my blog in RW and have it hosted at an existing host? If so how?

What about simply writing pages on RW and calling it a blog? Can I do that? Can I set it up so folks can get an RSS feed off of that? How?

Kindly help.

Eye catcher for mobile site

swoops — Wed, 01 May 2013 19:48:16 +0000

Hi all

I was wondering what you thought was the best way/stack to present a visitor to a mobile site with new info or a special sale or deal. SImilar to the way a pop up style on the desktop.
(posted in multiple topics as it seemed to fit into a variety)

Thanks in advance for your help

Swoops

PDF-Embed

richardx — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 03:09:56 +0000

Is it normal that this stack [PDF-Embed from Jo Workman] is not visible on IOS (iPad mini)

Integrating a calendar/events list - a brilliant alternative to Google Calendar

Langley — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 09:46:35 +0000

Sorry if this sounds like a shameless plug...but it is! I was looking through Rapidweaver forums on how to integrate a calendar into a Rapidweaver site and all roads seem to lead to the rather Google calendar which is fine albeit rather dull in it's appearance. Then I discovered localendar http://www.localendar.com/elsie

The basic version is free and has a sensible array of options and preferences for manipulating its appearance and interactive capabilities. Too many useful features to mention here, some of them are really rather sophisticated.

One creates the calendar on the localendar website (enabling you or your client to add to the calendar without using Rapidweaver) and it automatically generates plain HTML code or code for an iframe. A new feature is a Pinterset style (image+text block) format which shows only those days where events occur. If you click on any particular event it also shows a pop up window in which you can place the complete details of that event including images. It's nothing short of brilliant.

Here is a link to the kind of calendars you can create
http://www.localendar.com/calendar/online-calendar-samples

Langley

Placeholder images

Rob Beattie — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 11:28:03 +0000

You know how you can use www.littleipsum.com to generate placeholder text?

This is the same but for images. I just spotted Will Woodgate using it to demonstrate the features of his new free ScrollFade Stack over at www.stacks4stacks.com.

It's at www.lorempixel.com - new to me and fantastically useful. Just specify a size in pixels and category (abstract, people, business, tech etc) and it'll produce an image you can use as a placeholder.

Brilliant.

Rob

The best way for customers to pay for event?

Steamed — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 19:20:05 +0000

Hi there,

I have recently been asked by a friend to make a website for him that which is basically a one stop shop for a sporting club that runs a number of different sporting events. He needs to have the various different events listed so that people can choose which one they wish to compete in and then once they click on that event they are somehow able to pay the enrolment/registration fee for that event. Obviously this needs to be done securely and without hassle. I would also need to generate a confirmation email or page for them to print.

So here is my question, would it better to run with some type of shopping cart for this or is there a cleaner easier way. I've done a few RW sites before but nothing that required this kind of interactivity so i'm really lost.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Steamed

Installing Piwik analytics in RapidWeaver

Will Woodgate — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 13:29:56 +0000

A brand new blog article explaining what Piwik is, the basics of how to set it up, and emphasis towards complying with new EU 'cookie laws' coming into force after 26th May 2013:

http://www.willwoodgate.com/index_files/installing-piwik-analytics-in-rapidweaver.html

Footer Links

Jenny May — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 17:23:48 +0000

Looking for a way to create a link in the footer text.
I see where to put the text (globally and override for each page) - but can't see an option to link it.

Appreciate your help,
Yours truly,

bb steps

Change location of file

jcbigears — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 04:37:50 +0000

Hi all.
I have a rapidweaver site that's running perfectly www.cunningham.com.au. However, I've been given a authentication file that has to be loaded into the home folder as "www.cunningham.com.au/swarmkey.swf". I've loaded it into RW as a resource. Any tips to make it appear in the home folder instead of within /resources/?
Thanks,
John

How to automatically post links to your latest blog articles on social media websites

Will Woodgate — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 13:50:15 +0000

Hello,

This is something I was asked about by a client a few weeks ago, and I decided to writeup my findings and present this information as a 'how to' for other RapidWeaver users:
http://www.willwoodgate.com/index_files/automatically-linking-to-new-blog-posts.html

This is useful if you maintain a blog via RapidWeaver or another publishing platform. A free service like TwitterFeed monitors your blog RSS feed for new articles. When new articles are published, TwitterFeed publishes the blog entry title and link to your Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn or App.net account automatically.

It serves as a useful method to promote your blog. Also you can use basic analytics to monitor your links and see how many people are clicking through to your website from different social media platforms. So all-in-all, it's a useful, free service some of you may wish to try.

-Will.

Navigation on topp

GeirAge — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 15:20:13 +0000

Hi. I need some help from somebody clever.

I have made a web ( www.theway.no ) and need a solution to get ONLY the top of the side to stay and "frame" or someway get another web page in under the top.

The Idea is to be able to link out to example youtube and have the page navigation on top so when people are finnish on the youtube content they can browse the rest of the web by clicking on top. I guess it is possible to manage this, but have not found a good way to do it.

Pleace, can someone help me on the right direction.

Thanks!

Best regards
Geir Age Nystrand
Norway

Need advice on how to set up a order form!

trunkdesign — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 23:58:24 +0000

Hi all, i am trying to figure out how to set up a "quantity tab" that will automatically update the main order form for RFQ and pickup ability. My client does not want a ecommerce setup at this time, all orders will just go his email by submitting an order form. The trick is, that he wants all the products listed in their rightful categories, so its an order as you go instead of just going to one main order form and picking your products. Is there a way i can include a drop down/text field next to each product for quantity only and then it all is collected on the final submission form/cart. Without requesting payment from a credit card? Hope this makes sense. I feel like i might just need some code written and drop into the iframe, but i need it all to collectively update on the final order form somehow...

thanks.
jp

Changing a Theme

abilashreddy — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 21:30:04 +0000

Hi,

I've got my website functional with a static theme, I'd like to upgrade to a fully responsive theme.

Can someone please throw light on how this can be done in rapid weaver..?

I know it might sound as simple as goto page setting and change the default theme..., I'd like to understand the impacts or pre cautions that I'd need to take care before i do this step.

I appreciate your response.

Thank You,
Abi

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Uploading to Yahoo Web Hosting PLEASE HELP

Javierinterdesign — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 20:16:12 +0000

Hi everyone I have a domain registered with Yahoo Web hosting and I just found out that they use FTPS now. I recently tried uploading the Rapidweaver project to Filezilla but this is what come out in my website.
Check it out
www.experton4x4.com

Flux rss

Seb — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 14:16:50 +0000

Bonjour à tous,

Jái paramétrer mon flux rss sur rapidweaver mais quand je clique sur l'icone, je tombe sur une page blache (404). Je précise que c'est pour un podcast sur un blog. Est-ce que quelquún a eu le même problème?

How do I completely uninstall a theme?

PhilipOConnell — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 21:45:27 +0000

The colour change options in the theme I am using have stopped working no matter what I do the colours won't change.

I have gone to library/application support/Rapidweaver and moved the theme to the trash but upon re installing it it is exactly as it was when it stopped working.

Any other way of uninstalling it that might get it to go back to default?