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Continuing the discussion from Introduce yourself!:

All this is new to me. I have a Macintosh and want to start a small Web Blog that I can quickly change Photo’s, Slideshows and Videos to share with family and friends. What concerns me after watching some of the video’s is that I might need to be able to write some sort of code on some of the pages to get started.
Maybe I misunderstood to this. I know absolutely zilch about coding. I do love
my Macintosh and think I can learn how to do this if it isn’t too complicated.
My other question is: Can I easily upload the web blog to GreenGeeks as this is where I had to put my web hosting FTP stuff to save it, as the one we had closed out their rural part of the service. I am using FETCH for this and it is working just fine. I do not know if GreenGeeks would mind importing to my domain there? Thanks – email here is scooter@peak.org
PS. I have been trying to get into WordPress – it is downloaded and I find it to be really full of complicated things? At 87 years old I might run out of time trying to figure it out.
Thanks MrB2 (les Benscoter - Deadwood, Oregon)

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Hi @Mr.B2,

Welcome.

Yep you can easily upload to GreenGeeks, they are using the standard cPanel hosting so shouldn’t be a problem.

You don’t need to know any coding to add photos, videos, or slideshows to pages in RapidWeaver. What videos were you watching that suggested you’d need to know coding to do that?

If you are looking to add all those things to a blog page specifically, you might check into picking up the Stacks plugin along with a Blog and Gallery Stack, as that might make it a bit easier to add images, videos, and slideshows all to the same page type. Check out the Marketplace as there’s a lot of great stuff there to select from.

Let us know if you have other questions.

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Dan

I deeply appreciate the help. Thank You.

GreenGeeks confirmed what you have said and encouraged me to keep at this project (Simple Web blog).

I watched the video “Getting started with RapidWeaver - saw the edit mode page, thought … dang, that is “edit”mode and Preview. I guess I spooked at the edit stuff … although it isn’t code, it says it is mark down
text. I guess we can get by that (maybe).

So, I need the following
RapidWeaver Personal - $31.60
Stacks Plug In from YourHead Software - $59.95
Blog Stack from Stack from SDS82 - $15.83
&
Iconic Gallery Stack from inStacks Software - $49.00

With this I could get up and get going … having a place to drop pictures and they update & take pictures down without redoing the whole web site? Same with slideshows and video’s?
I hope I have that right. This is all done on my Mac and refreshed on the GreenGeek site. I also have FTP with FETCH set up there … so, maybe could put the condensed Tiny URL in the web
page and it would be active so folks could click on that an navigate to the web host?

I watched you in the video ‘Upgrading to RW Classic’. Very nice and of course there are things that I do not understand - all in due time.

I am not sure what will be needed that is in the Marketplace … i.e. Squash. As I know nothing about any of these things — guess we discover as we go along.

Thanks again — I am in the thinking mode … Wondering if short pages developed with AI can be imported into RW Classic or are they not designed to do this?

Again, I know nothing about this — but did run the AI thing connected with Mobirise. That was scary.

Mr.B2

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This stack uses the Google Blogger/Blogspot service. If you are using that service for your blog then yeah this would be a good stack to get, but if you are not using that blog service (and don’t want to use that blog service) then this would not be the blog stack you’d want.

Well yeah, you wouldn’t have to redo the whole website to change out some pictures. With that Gallery stack it looks like you can just update the pictures on your server in the relevant folder without opening RapidWeaver.

Regarding videos, are you uploading those to YouTube or some other third-party service, or are you wanting to host the videos yourself on your GreenGeeks hosting account?

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Dan

We will be putting the videos up on the GreenGeeks web hosting machine (If I can make it work). i. e.

#1 … is in a new folder and the path is different than the 2nd one which is just dumped in the directory as they set it up. I know zip about these thiings.

dang Dan G. Customer Support, Realmac Software
7 May
Mr.B2:
Blog Stack from Stack from SDS82 - $15.83
This stack uses the Google Blogger/Blogspot service. If you are using that service for your blog then yeah this would be a good stack to get, but if you are not using that blog service (and don’t want to use that blog service) then this would not be the blog stack you’d want.

Ok … no SDS82 stack. Thanks — I do appreciate this — as you can tell. Green is very green here at Camp IV in Deadwood, Oregon.

Mr.B2:
With this I could get up and get going … having a place to drop pictures and they update & take pictures down without redoing the whole web site? Same with slideshows and video’s?
I hope I have that right.
Well yeah, you wouldn’t have to redo the whole website to change out some pictures. With that Gallery stack it looks like you can just update the pictures on your server in the relevant folder without opening RapidWeaver.

I am all for trying the Gallery stack — it would be nice to be able to change pictures often and do it easily?

Regarding videos, are you uploading those to YouTube or some other third-party service, or are you wanting to host the videos yourself on your GreenGeeks hosting account?
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GreenGeek is new to us — I have WordPress installed (It is sort of complicated and I feel guilty asking them so many questions. You too for that matter - I will be
downloading RapidWeaver and pertinent stuff you suggested … it will be nice to get familiar with a Native Mac App — eventually I can get it to work with minimum help (?) I hope so.

Since I want to be able to fiddle with the pictures, slideshows and video’s often — simple is better for me.

Have to take Ann to therapy at Coastal Fitness - she is 93, I am 87 and we are kept busy keeping up with the younger folks. Ann is legally blind … so, her watercolors on a simple blog
will allow friends and family easy access. We both can then share pictures and adventures with friends and of course family. This is sort of exciting for us and of course challenging.

There are Family Friendly Blogs.

Thanks for the encouragement.

Mr. B (Les)

So I need:

RapidWeaver Personal - $31.60
Stacks Plug In from YourHead Software - $59.95
&
Iconic Gallery Stack from inStacks Software - $49.00

Anything else?

les

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Dan
I seem to need to bother you again. I am uncertain about what I did or should have done and did not.
*The truth is, I am still flopping along all over the place as have not understood nor put to use the basics - Over time I may get to a real basic understanding of some of this - enough to
get a web blog (family sharing) or web page up on GreenGeeks. I am afraid of WordPress - did spend time looking but needed way too much help.

I have a bill for the STACKS PLUG IN FOR $49.95 that is all good, I think.
Then we decided that the BLOG Stack plugin was not for me as I am not using Google Blogger.

I thought I had purchased Gallery Stack, evidently not as I do not have a receipt for that? Was it called Iconic Gallery for $49.00?
I am not sure what is in that folder of addons.

Got further lost and started down the trail of … Foundry. Foundry 3, then I read a few remarks about … Oh Oh … might be more than I need as some seemed to think the older version was safer??

I think I am lost again (Need to get back to a simple plan - book or manual?)

Here is what appears to be in my RapidWeaver App for Addons.

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Do I have what I should have in there to begin with? Adding more might complicate the issue? That Foundry video and adds were impressive though — I am easily
impressed I guess.

I need a Plan A and manual and stick to it I guess … ?

Any suggestion.

Thank You.

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Looks to me like you purchased the YourHead bundle (which includes the Stacks plugin) and then downloaded the free UIKIT theme. That theme is to be used with the UIKIT framework. That framework provides some free stacks you can use with the Stacks plugin.

Maybe hold off on purchasing anything else. There are a few resources you can check out to get started:

I suggest getting yourself familiar with RapidWeaver’s built-in pages first which you can read about here. There is a built-in Blog page which might offer what you are looking for so check that one out.

Also feel free to join our weekly Office Hours live session if you’d like to go over anything in real-time.

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Dan & RapidWeavers

Good and solid advice.
I am back on the right page, will put more serious time in on the study, trial/error and enjoy the learning process.

It just took a little nudge and urging to get me back in the game. I deeply appreciate this.

I am back in my seat, in the classroom and concentrating on the assignment(s).

Thank You.

Mr.B2 (Leslie Benscoter)

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