Recent Discussions - realmacsoftware

Stacks 2.1.10

Isaiah — Sat, 18 May 2013 17:26:44 +0000

Hi everyone,

We released Stacks 2.1.10 this morning. It's a free bug fix update, which normally I would release quietly, but since it has an important change, I thought I'd post to the forum.

Google has changed their CDN URL endpoints for jQuery UI. This change can potentially affect some 3rd party stacks. It's important that you update Stacks and republish your site to incorporate the new Google URLs.

Stacks should pick up this update the next time you launch Stacks, but you can download it directly from our website here: http://yourhead.com/stacks/

Isaiah

Techie details: this does not affect the general jQuery libraries and no version changes were made. Google suddenly dropped an endpoint that we have used for a couple years (I suspect this is accidental, but who knows when they'll fix it). So we've moved over to a specific version endpoint rather than the floating version endpoint in the same manner with did with the jQuery libraries in January.

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?

Migration to a new hosting company

Garymac — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 18:52:42 +0000

Hi all,

I think it's about time that I moved to a more professional hosting company that gives better customer support and fewer problems with many RW Stacks (particularly PHP related) . This is quite a daunting task as I now have about 60 websites/domains that I look after, many of which include an email service. Some of my clients choose to stay with their existing host and give me an FTP account or access to their control panel. One such client uses Heart Internet (based in the UK) and I am very impressed with their system. They have a comprehensive (but quite expensive) reseller package and I just wanted to see if any RW users on this forum have experience of Heart Internet (good and bad) or can suggest a good alternative.

Many thanks,

Gary

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.

Beyond RapidWeaver – CMS comparison of Concrete5 & WordPress

Chris123 — Wed, 15 May 2013 15:02:31 +0000

I'm a designer who stepped into developing websites using RapidWeaver. I love it, but I'm getting bigger opportunities that require database, blog and heavy customer CMS functionality — basically editorial websites and real estate websites. This seems to be too much for RapidWeaver to handle. I was recommended to check out Concrete5, which I've never heard of until this week. I like the idea of using something other than WordPress, because everyone and their mother is developing with WordPress — even if they have no design background. Many of my clients come to me when they are ready to ditch their previous WordPress developer, due to the lack of a well designed brand strategy. I hate the thought of learning something new and having to buy all new plugins all over again. I'm not a code guy, although I've had to figure some stuff out to make RapidWeaver work for me.

I will continue to do small business website design and development with RapidWeaver, but the time has come for me to consider broadening my skills with a larger CMS platform like Concrete5 or WordPress. Any advice out there regarding Concrete5 over WordPress? Any feedback regarding plugin cost comparisons. Are plugin's relatively the same cost between both platforms?

I've read a little about comparisons and they both seem to be very strong. WordPress has more plugins available and it's no longer considered just a blogging platform, but a true CMS option.

Thanks,
Chris

Rapdiweaver en Stacks problemen

philvdl — Thu, 16 May 2013 07:48:17 +0000

Mijn website http://www.optiekvanderlinden.be staat online, telt ongeveer 100 pagina's en is ongeveer 250Mb groot. Telkens ik Rapidweaver open, groeit de user/library/cache/Stackscache bij elke handeling tot enkele Gigabytes grootte. Als ik de stackscache NIET dagelijks manueel leeg én de prullenmand leeg alvorens mijn mac af te zetten, blijft mijn Mac de dag nadien hangen bij het opstarten. Soms tot 5 minuten alvorens hij echt opstart. Als je een paar weken op zo een grote site werkt, zonder deze cache te wissen, dan start je Mac gewoon NIET meer op en moet je Systeem terug installeren. Alléén Rapidweaver geeft dit probleem. De dagen dat Rapidweaver NIET wordt gebruikt blijft alles perfect werken.
Weet er iemand een oplossing en/of oorzaak hiervan?

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

New theme: AERIAL

JonasThemes — Sat, 18 May 2013 21:33:01 +0000

Introducing AERIAL

Preview | Price: €20

With the Aerial theme you can leave a great impression on your visitors with its magazine like title on top of a large graphic.

Legibility

Text has been carefully styled so it is a relief to read what your website is about.

Responsive

In addition to a responsive layout for mobile devices, Aerial offers an optional max width limit for your site. Images and videos are scaled to fit any screen size.

Sticky Navigation

The navigation can be locked to the top of the browser window as the page is scrolled upwards.

Map

You can display a large map stretching the whole width of the page. Great to show where you are located.

Retina

Though you can add your own logo and banner images no other images are used in this theme so its quick and crispy sharp. In contrast to most other themes logos will look sharp on retina displays. This is achieved by scaling them to 50% of their original size.

Colors

Full and complete color control on all theme elements and text.

Browser support

A website created with the Aerial theme will work in most browsers (IE8+) but certain stylistic elements might be missing or look different, e.g. drop shadows, rounded corners and fonts. In our opinion a website must not necessarily look the same in every browser.

More info

Upgrade Responsive Theme: MiniMax

michelangelo — Sat, 18 May 2013 21:27:10 +0000

HI to all

Here a new upgrade of MiniMax

Version 1.3: Full support for Awesome Font with a lot of icons.

key Features:
• jQuery / CSS 3 / HTML5
• Responsive layout
• Responsive advanced options
• 11 WebFonts
• Extracontent area
• Awesome Font / Icon
• Social icons
• Drop navigation
• Back to Top button
• Born for Stacks, Examples
• Support for tablets / Smartphones codes for each RW page
• and more.....

follow us on twitter for further news.

thanks!
Michelangelo

[ann] two stacks to spiff up your external links

el mourabbi — Thu, 16 May 2013 12:50:12 +0000

I just released two new stacks that will help your visitor to see the difference between internal links (from one page to the other within your site) and external ones (that lead to another site):

The ExternalLinkIcon Stack shows an icon after external links. You can choose between four image types, two sizes and 25 colors – 200 variations in total.

The FavLink Stack is maybe a little more fancier: it shows the favicon (what's that?) of the corresponding site before or after an external link.

For all details, demos and download links please visit the ExternalLinkIcon Stack product page and the FavLink Stack product page.

In case you missed it: my stacks are no longer free. I changed to a Pay What You Want system. This means that you can buy any of my stacks and pay for it what you think is reasonable. For those who are interested, I wrote about the background and reasons for this decision in this post in my blog.

Hope you like them.

Jeroen

Control Column Stack Gutters by Pixels

philn67 — Sat, 18 May 2013 18:23:37 +0000

Im having trouble with the space around my stacks. My layout is based on a grid; 3 columns wide, x however many rows I need for content, so effectively its "tiles", but these vary by content.
Row 1 is a tile 3 columns wide.
Row two 2 columns wide
Row three, four, 2 columns wide.
A right column equal to 1 column wide x 2 rows.
A last row 3 x 1 column.
See attached screen shot.
I have worked on a 20px margin between each and worked up the layout in photoshop to give me the visual. The last column isn't equal but I can correct that, my bad maths.
My problem is with 2 and 3 column stacks having gutters in %. I understand why a % is useful but it causes problems when vertical spacing is in px. A 1% is too narrow, meaning I have to reduce the spacing for all the others and it ruins the balance. 2% is too wide and means I have to increase everything else. The 3xcolumn stack is 33 split, and yet the 2xcolumn doesn't line up at 66%, I have to increase it to more like 69% to get the edge to line up. The real problem is how would you guys create a layout like this so that you can control the spacing exactly? Ideally I want to have 20px everywhere. Is there a way to alter the gutter % by pixels, or a way to be more specific, such as 1.5%. Also I'm using a responsive theme, so I can't use exact widths for stack content.
Help appreciated!

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!

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?

My New Graphic Design Portfolio Site

mikaworks — Sat, 04 May 2013 15:02:20 +0000

Come see... Made this with Will Woodgate's Flood theme... SuperGallery 2 stacks for portfolios. Let me know if you see anything wonky.. I love feedback...

Thanks!

http://www.mikaworks.com

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?

Tipps

Snaex — Fri, 17 May 2013 12:56:04 +0000

Hat einer noch TIpps oder Verbesserungsmöglichkeiten für meine website ?
www.huus-ant-gracht.de
Fotos kommen im Sommer noch andere und professioneller.
Ich freue mich über jede antwort

Mon site rame et les images ne montent pas.

Clovis — Mon, 13 May 2013 13:41:17 +0000

Bonjour à tous!

Je suis nouveau sur le forum. J'utilise Rapidweawer depuis quelques mois et en suis satisfait.
La conception s'est déroulée sans trop d'accros grace à l'aide que j'ai pu trouver sur le net.
Jusqu'ici tout allait bien.

Tout s'est compliqué durant la mise en ligne.
En effet, le site une fois mis en ligne rame énormément, les images ne se chargent pas tout le temps et affichent "stacks "xxx" ". Après une actualisation de la page parfois ça se règle parfois non...
Je précise que toute mes images ont été redimenssionnées afin d'être le plus légères possible (elles n'excèdent pas 150ko).
De plus, je trouve que c'est vraiment "le bazard" entre les pages exportées une fois sur l'hébergeur : Des pages qui appartiennent a la même arborescence se retrouvent totalement ailleurs...
Comment puis-je faire ?

D'avance je vous remercie. Tous mes espoirs sont sur vous désormais.

Clovis

Teleported/Houdini/comments stack issues

Mad T Hobovintner — Tue, 14 May 2013 06:21:43 +0000

I am experiencing an odd problem using doobox's Teleporter and comments stack AND Joe Workmans Houdini and their version of comments stack..
Basically I've used them to place the comments in the sidebar. Now, I can see it works in Firefox and on iOS devices but doesn't work in safari. This is the case for all products.
This is the case on mountain lion and snow leopard versions of safari.
Any idea what the problem might be anyone? I have emailed the developers but no solution so far..

Private Eyes

ironvest — Fri, 17 May 2013 07:44:12 +0000

I have lockdown, but i tried to figure it out before and just gave up. I am looking for a register page that members can log into and create a password. Lockdown looks like i the admin has to create the password.
Is private eyes easier to use than lockdown and does it create what i just mentioned about the user creating a password? I have registered for forums etc that auto send email verification before using the registered pages. i would like to be able to do that also. I want the user to have there own member entry page with information just for each user. Is private eyes capable of that?

Immer een moedig voorwaarts

PDAFreaker — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 17:47:56 +0000

Immer een moedig voorwaarts..........,

1 site/maand ter beoordeling moet hier toch lukken.

Hierbij de eerste voor maart.

enigmabp.nl

Het theme is Exposition van Brandon Lee. bltthemes.com

Ben enkel jaren op een zo nu en dan basis bezig met Rapidweaver
De creativiteit en het bouwen van deze site heeft me weer veel weaving plezier gegeven.
En wellicht na jullie reacties nog enkele uren in het vooruitzicht.....
Ontvang de reacties met open vizier!

Happy weaving

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

stacks causes crash at startup

philvdl — Thu, 16 May 2013 08:09:01 +0000

Hello,
My website http://www.optiekvanderlinden.be has about 100 pages and is about 250MB in size. Every time I open RapidWeaver to make some changes, the user/library/cache/com.yourhead.YHStacksKit grows to several Gigabytes in size. If I don't manually empty the com.yourhead.YHStacksKit Cache daily, AND empty the Trash before i turn off my mac, my Mac still has problems and stalls at startup the next day. Sometimes up to 5 minutes and more before he really boots. If i have a been working on my site for a few weeks without deleting that cache, than my iMac doesn't start up anymore, and the only thing left to do is completely reinstall the iOs operating system.

Does anyone know a solution and / or what is the cause of this?

changing vertical spacing in sidebar widget

drmandel — Fri, 17 May 2013 15:22:22 +0000

I have what I think is a simple widget from MailChimp that creates a basic subscribe form. This works - but I want to adjust the vertical spacing and the padding above and below the form so that it fits nicely with my home page.

I have seen some clues along the way - but I would appreciate any help you could provide.

Here is the CSS info at the top of the subscribe form:

http://cdn-images.mailchimp.com/embedcode/slim-081711.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">

Can Rapidweaver do this?

Gabrielle — Thu, 16 May 2013 12:08:22 +0000

A client has asked if I can reproduce this for her new website design, does Rapidweaver have this capability?

http://www.originalsign.co.uk/number-plate-builder.php

Update Theme sehr mühsam

GerhardL — Thu, 16 May 2013 11:56:14 +0000

Hi Leute,

ärgere mich gerade wieder. Ich sollte ein Theme (SeyDoggy CR4ME) aktualisieren. Nun habe ich aber für die HP beim Theme eigene Styles ergänzt und gespeichert.

Nun haben die Entwickler das Theme von SeyDoggy CR4ME auf Seydesign CR4ME umbenannt und damit gehts los, das gesamte Layout der Page ist "resettet" da meine Styles nicht mehr erkannt werden (auch bei umbenennen nicht).

Gibt es da irgend einen Trick damit das funktioniert (Datensicherung hab ich) aber ich möchte doch nicht die ganzen Styleänderungen wieder machen.

Gerhard

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

Learning to code

Bazza — Sun, 12 May 2013 12:15:39 +0000

As the title says really. I'd like to dabble a little further, where's the best place to start? Ideally free until I know I'm going to give it the commitment it requires.

Thanks

Barrie

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?

[ANN] New theme: Solo

yuZool — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 15:19:20 +0000

A flat and beautiful theme for creatives.

Designed to clearly showcase your work and give you the best chance of getting more clients. Show off your talents. It's responsive too and has a DropBox to collect client files built-in. Bye Bye missed attachments from emails.

It's fully responsive, but the coolest part is probably the colour palette and DropBox feature. Just try it out (with complete previews):

http://demo.yuzoolthemes.com/solo/features.html

Interesting Portfolio (with animations) built in - drag images into resources to activate - and a cool Blog preview thumbnail.

Thanks for reading and go check it out:

http://www.yuzoolthemes.com/themes/solo/

[ann] A 1000 customers so this new theme is on me to them

yuZool — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 06:54:27 +0000

Put away your wallet and keep your money, this one’s on me for saying thank you for buying any premium yuzooltheme and helping me get to 1000 paying customers. That’s like Del Monte saying “yes” a 1000 times. Thank you.

It’s free to all current and future customers who have put their faith in me and yuzoolthemes.

Check out the theme info here: http://www.yuzoolthemes.com/themes/prisms/

Thanks for making this happen

Code check needed please

Nightrain — Thu, 16 May 2013 22:41:01 +0000

I've had a customer contact me to say that the site i created for him is not displaying correctly on the PC of one of his customers. Said customer took his PC to his supplier to have it checked and they are blaming the website. the main problem appears to reside with the gallery pages.
Would one or two of you please take a look at www.grahametucker.co.uk and let me know what you think:
a) Impressions of the site.
b) If you can spot any problems in the code.

Thank you

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"?

Modifying a Template

macmamma — Sun, 12 May 2013 03:14:43 +0000

I am very new to RapidWeaver. I wonder if I can import a site that is already created and how, or how I can modify a template to look like my site. Any answers? Can you point me in a direction? Much Appreciated

Inserimento gadget google in pagina

franco53 — Tue, 07 May 2013 21:01:32 +0000

Vorrei inserire il gadget di Google per poter vedere un canale youtube in una pagina del mio sito.
Ottenere il codice di Google mi è stato facile ma non ho capito come va inserito il codice con RW.
Ho provato a inserire un pagina HTML , poi il codice così fornito senza aggiungere nulla, ma alla fine sulla anteprima non si vede nulla.
Ho allora digitato il comandi essenziali per le pagine html ovvero :

inserendo il codice tra il e il ma niente.
Lo stesso risultato lo ottengo con STACK2 ovvero una pagina in anteprima completamente bianca.
Dove sbaglio ? Qualcuno può aiutarmi ?
Grazie

impostare larghezza colonne stacks

herny — Thu, 16 May 2013 15:41:18 +0000

Sono sempre qui a richiedere il vostro prezioso aiuto:
come faccio a impostare la larghezza delle colonne negli stacks?
o meglio il "fixed mode" lo capisco ma mi si sovrappongono i contenuti delle colonne...
cosa vogliono dire i vari fill, float, fixed mode ecc ecc?
grazie a tutti

Incomplete initial page load

MarcelRobbers — Sun, 05 May 2013 19:35:24 +0000

Hi Weavers,

I got a strange problem with a new site. It is early work in progress …

The problem is that the page mostly loads incomplete at first with a browser (all types) with free and clean cache. After this first partly load and refreshing of the site or jumping between some test pages the page loads complete and without errors. No missing elements or boxes …

What can be the problem of the site or the initial loading process? Any idea to avoid such an incomplete first load of a website?

The responsive site is build with newest RapidWeaver, Stacks 2, Responsive Freestack Theme, Joe Workman Stacks (Cycler, fluid image etc.) Doobox stacks.

Thanks for any help and advice!

Testlink:

http://www.braue.info/2013/freestack

Marcel

pubblicare un sito di prova

herny — Wed, 15 May 2013 10:57:14 +0000

Ciao a tutti, sto preparando un sito e leggendo i vari post mi pare di capire che molti plug-in non funzionano se non sono messi on-line.
La domanda è questa: posso pubblicare il sito da me creato su una directory visibile solo a chi conosce l'indirizzo?
Il sito che sto realizzando ne sostituisce un altro che non vorrei mettere off-line finchè non è completo il nuovo. Come faccio a mettere il nuovo sito ad esempio su www.rapidweaver.com/nuovosito e da lì poi visitarlo tutto?
Scusate la lunga domanda e grazie mille.