šŸ—£ We need your Questions for the Podcast (Wednesday 25th)

@dan, please discuss RapidWeaver integration with Typed(dot)com, as in what stacks are available, do the RW typed(dot)com stacks have theme requirements (work in any theme) of RW, can we both put and fetch from typed(dot)com from our site build or live site? Does Joe Workmanā€™s Easy/Total CMS work with Typed(dot)com (Why not talk about Joe again lol)?

Also, proper steps to invite a collaborator that does not have a typed account - this should be included in the email sent to the invitee and to the senderā€¦

What did you folks do for your 13th Birthday? Anything exciting happen?

Talk about 6.3.6 GM and all the issues that were fixed.

Just thoughts.
Brad

I"ve been enjoying the podcast as Iā€™m very new to RapidWeaver and believe it or not Iā€™ve actually found some of them helpful :slight_smile:

Iā€™m very new to this and really donā€™t know any HTML or CSS but Iā€™m trying to learn. I recently bought the Endeavor theme (Michael David Design) for my site: www.pjkoltnow.com and Iā€™d like to know a few things;

  1. Why are my photos so big? I know you sort of addressed this recently but I didnā€™t get any clear answer.

  2. Iā€™m not sure I understand the ā€œextra contentā€ in my theme or where it goes.

Iā€™m doing my best and have figured some things out via the web.

Thanks for the podcasts.
PJ

Greetings You BRAVE PodCasters!

I absolutely LOVED the ā€œModern Grungeā€ theme. Iā€™ve had to abandon it for a responsive theme. Will ā€œModern Grungeā€ ever be updated to be a responsive theme? The mixture of different shades of blue is so pretty. I realize the patterned backgrounds would not work on a small screen, but what about all those beautiful shades of blue?

Iā€™m almost blind and am afraid to change anything having to do with color! If I didnā€™t have color-blindness issues, Iā€™d have changed the green to blue on our new theme. I really miss ā€œModern Grungeā€, but everyone else loves the new theme and mobile-accessible site.

Thanks for all the laughter.

With a smile, s13cybergal from Alameda, CA, USA

Why is mapsnap not working with the official theme?

PJ,

Extra Content (EC) is a term to denote areas of your page which arenā€™t provided in RW by default.

A standard RW page - at its most basic - allows you to place content (text, images etc) in the pageā€™s centre, or main content area; in sidebars; perhaps in a footer; and have - usually - images in/as the banner. The default page also allows you to control the menu/navigation buttons, tabs, lists etc.

Imagine a tiny area at the top right of the entire page, or immediately above your vertical navigation between the menu and the header image, or stretching all the way across the page butted up against the header/banner. Into any of these areas you might want to put such things as todayā€™s date, a secondary logo, a link to your own site-building company on a clientā€™s own site.

These are Extra Content areas; they are controlled separately and specifically by themes which support EC. Many modern themes provide for, say, 6 EC areas to be optionally ā€˜activatedā€™ and used (=filled with content of your own).

The way in which (or even whether) Extra Content is implemented always differs from theme to theme. So do the ways in which you access ECā€¦ Stacks4Stacks EC stack is one way to make it easy.

Many EC-supporting Themes will place a distinct (bright red, yellow, e.g.) border around an ā€˜activatedā€™ EC area to show you where to is - as well as describing its location on the page. This border does not display on publication.

Good luck!

How about when stack is updated in RW and deployed in a previously published site, will RW automatically update the published stack on the next publish or do we need to do a republish all to update the deployed stack?

Love the show, glad to see you all are doing this to support your user base.

Blessings,
ā€”Mark

Mark, if there are changes to the way the page behaves of appears a s result of an update to the stack, you need to republish, Yes.

If you guys have time for another for another semi-off topic question Iā€™ve got one Iā€™m sure everyone here has thought about at one point or another.

ā€œIf you could have any superpower what would it be and why?ā€
Note: you can make up your own superpowers.

My current answer would be; to be fluent in every language that ever was, is, or will be. I think this would be a great power because every language has evolved to describe thoughts in itā€™s own unique way. For instance some languages lack a past or future sense.

Understanding language allows you to more accurately understand the minds of the people who speak it.

Cheers and keep up the great work!

That fits because both beavers and bisons can speak any language which theyā€™re required to speak.

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Hi, Just listened to Episode 3 (from all way in New Zealand). You asked about Membership systems. Thought iI would mention aMember which Ryan at the Rapidweaver Classroom uses,

Yowzers! Now we really do have some questions for the show! :scream:

Keep 'em coming, weā€™ll do our best to answer as many as we can :smile:

Cheers,
Dan

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stay tuned for the marathon 5 hour podcastā€¦ lol

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Haha, donā€™t joke, I think this is going to be our longest podcast yetā€¦

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Some good video tutorial materials in there too lol

Brad

I should copywrite my signatureā€¦

Cheers for your earsā€¦

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Thank you Mark! I appreciate your time.

Hereā€™s a lighthearted question @dan

Presumably, at the time, you called RapidWeaver Rapidweaver because is was a lightweight and quicker alternative to Dream Weaver.
Now, RapidWeaver (particularly with itā€™s huge add-on base) has grown into quite a substantial app. It can be rapid but equally it can be a deep and comprehensive software tool.

Q. If you are able to time travel back to the point you decided on the name but armed with the hindsight of RapidWeaverā€™s recent proliferation would you change itā€™s name, and if so to what?

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Some of the websites I am building look awesome in the modern browsers and rubbish in the old ones. I do this for a living and so have to support the old ones. I have been building some of my sites with Foundation, and am using the re-direct option for old browsers to go to a duplicate site that I build in freestacks. I do this for a living and so supporting old browsers is not negotiable for me as I build for small businesses and some of my clients have really ancient kit! How would you recommend handling old browsers? If building a second site, would you do it as a different project and load to a different folder, or would you build within the same project altering the theme used in Page Inspector? Thank you!

Closing this topic as we recorded the podcast this morning. Episode 17 will be out tomorrow (Thursday).

Thanks for all the questions, it made for a great show and our longest yetā€¦

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