RapidWeaver User Forum

Change text snippets (prices) thoughout your RapidWeaver project

2012-02-06T19:25:41+00:00

Say you have 30 prices spread across your whole website.
Takes time to find and update all those prices… (could be text snippets).

This can be done today… with pluskit.
You just create a page for every text snippet (price, whatever).
Name the page the text snippet.
Add the text to the page (stacks, styled text or…)
Use @import.

Voilá.
But 30 pages (in this case) to do this is… quite a bit!

But is it possible to do easier ?

Change to Theme Style List Creation.

2012-02-04T11:35:21+00:00

I just went through the exercise of updating the theme of my largest website. I used lots of Theme Styles (around 30) to assist in navigation by color coding areas of the site. That all worked fine and continues to do so. But I do have two suggestions that I feel would streamline the process.

Here is my first request: Please make the list of Theme Styles sort alphabetically or at least by order of creation, alphabetical is preferred. I had to recreate all of the the theme styles from scratch for the updated theme. I used a standardized descriptive name which I figured wold make the list easy to navigate. But come to find out the items get added to the list in a totally random fashion: not alphabetical, not by date created, just totally random. The hardest part of this whole exercise was trying to find a given theme style in the list because the list was all scrambled. This change doesn’t seem like it would be too hard to implement and really would make life easier.

A second request would be to consolidate the three theme related buttons to one area of the Inspector & make the Theme Style button show the the name of the theme style in use. As it is now you go to the top of the Inspector palette to pick the theme. Next you must mouse to the bottom of the Inspector for the button to change the Theme Style. This small button just shows a folder icon and you have no indication of the name of the current Theme Style. My suggestion is this: Take the three buttons for picking the Theme Name, Theme Style plus the gear menu (used for saving a theme style) and locate them together. This would prevent you from having to mouse to the top of the Inspector and then down to the bottom all the time. All the buttons for the operations would be grouped together. Lastly make the button for picking the Theme Style the same size as the Theme Name button and let it display the name of the currently selected theme.

Help with contact form needed!!

2012-02-04T03:50:20+00:00

Hello to all,

I recently started using RW to manage my site. I use Yahoo as my host and have already created several e-mail addresses for different aspects of my business. So my problem is, when I plug my info at thequantumartgallery dot com into the contact form i get an error message. I contacted Yahoo and was given a line of code. Where should I plug in this line to get the servers to speak with one another. I am almost certain it can be done in the ‘page info’ section of the contact form, just not sure where. Or will I need an add-on program to create this form so that it will work? Below is the line of code can anyone help me figure this out?!

Thank you!!!

How do I determine the color code for elements in a theme?

2012-02-03T18:59:49+00:00

Hello to all,

Can anyone tell me how to find a specific color index for any given theme? For example color: #7E6B54. I am altering the avant-garde theme in CSS and would like to use the reddish tab color for the slogan lettering, but I can’t see to find those codes. When I try to write a line such as color: rgb (194,73,0) it resets to default.

Any thoughts would be much appreciated!

Cancel that….It appears it can be accessed via the colors menu @palette select “web safe colors”

If I am incorrect please feel free to comment!

Automatically remove files on server when a page is deleted in RW

2012-01-30T15:58:16+00:00

Whenever you delete a page in RW you later have to manually delete the files on your server via FTP.

Would it be possible for RW to automatically delete the relevant files during the next “publish” if a page has been removed from the project?

Best regards,

Soren

Why is upload crippled for large website?

2012-01-11T05:58:17+00:00

I’ve been trying to upload a replacement website but no success. Tried several times, all failed. It’s quote a ig site in total because of several large mp3 files which are available on it for people to download. The site folder (exported to my HD from RW521) measures 651MB but when I’m uploading it reaches multiples of that before failing. The RW sandwich file is 23MB. I’ve checked my server (I have an unlimited hosting account which has no restrictions on bandwidth, file size, ftp accounts, users, etc etc - zero limits) and there is no reason for this that they can establish, other than “the program being used” (read, RapidWeaver).

I’m right in the middle of an upload attempt now — the meter is running at 1300MB, but the whole site is only 651MB!!!! What’s going on????

How can I make this work? It’s cost me so much time and money in failed uploads (costing IP bandwidth when on the run) that it’s become straight out bad business to continue.

I’ve heard of file warehousing but have no idea how that works. I’d love to know though.

Can anyone help me here? Or is this another ridiculous failing of RapidWeaver that I hadn’t noticed on smaller sites earlier?

Many thanks in advance for any help offered.

color picker

2011-05-08T21:17:33+00:00

Can you guys make the color picker work with hex numbers (#A82221) like it did in all the earlier iterations of Rapidweaver?

Thanks. It’s really annoying and completely inaccurate to simply always default to using the loop.

Would like to see this added to the Color Inspector

2012-01-13T01:58:02+00:00

Please see the attached pic for what I’m requesting. It would be a MUCH welcomed addition to RapidWeaver.

Thanks

Last Published Date

2008-09-13T10:05:19+00:00

Can we please have the facility to alter the format of <Last Published Date> so that we can have the option of UK format (DD/MM/YY) as well as the US (MM/DD/YY)? Thank you!

RW huge memory usage

2011-12-08T02:31:38+00:00

Hit’s really sat the this otherwise nice program is so unstable…
I’m using it for severals years now bud getting quit annoyed an frustrated it’s so unstable (I use a iMac 2.8 GHz intel core i5 whit 16 GB of DDR3 RAM) The memory usage of Rapid Weaver is huge, more than 3 GB (See my screen Shot) As a consequence I frequently get stuck an projects. For some small works and hobby fine… For professional use Huuum? Not convince! More people have the same problem? Ideas? And what can Realmac do here?