I am relatively new to RapidWeaver so I am spending time putting a personal web site together and learning a lot. I purchased the Rainbow DD theme because I liked it and it had lots of options. So tonight I was trying to get the horizontal image that can be placed near the top of the page to work. I downloaded the ExtraContent stack and created a page with it. Added an image and attempted to follow the directions that the developer has shared.
I could not get the image to appear. I have tried a number of settings, but nothing works.
If I load this into the head (had to modify so it would appear)
Hard to help if you don’t provide a link (URL) to the page in question.
Your screenshot indicates you are using Extra Content area 8. Are you positive area 8 is what you want to use? That’s a bit difficult for us to know. Somewhere the theme you are using should indicate where the various extra content areas will show up.
What @Mathew says: a URL always is very helpful to solve the problem.
It looks like you are using just a background image in your Extra Content stack.
When the stack has no content, there’s nothing to show, not even the background image.
Clear the background image.
Then drop a picture into the empty EC stack (or drop an Image stack into it and then drop the image inside) and it should work.
@kfriii Fred, I have no further hints, so I’m afraid I can’t help you with this.
Don’t give up yet. Maybe @henkvrieselaar (the developer) can help out here.
Select 8 in the settings of the stack (so it’s now ExtraContent8).
Drag your image into this ExtraContent stack.
Go to the Theme variations > ExtraContent 8 Image or Slideshow. By default it’s hidden, so select an option, for example “Show EC8 below Title and Slogan…”
Now your image shows up in preview.
• Another option: drag your image into the Resources of RW.
Now paste this in the Content or Sidebar as plain text (RW > Edit > Paste as Plain Text):
I had tried this on a page other than the home page, and it did not work. When I did it on the home page, it showed there and on the master style, but it does not appear on any other page. Is this correct? I assumed it work on all pages based on the master style.
It should work on all pages, but be sure you’ve enabled an option in the Theme variations > ExtraContent 8 Image or Slideshow in the Master Styles. And you have to put the code in my previous post in all pages of course.
I purchased your theme assuming that it would work with other add-ons. I tried using Flow from YourHead. The Rainbox DD does not display the arrows that control image movement correctly.Is there something that I am missing? Fred Rist
Yes, I tried it with other themes. Sometimes Flow worked OK, but when I went back to that theme, Flow did not work. I was trying different themes. The results are very inconsistent. i assume RapidWeaver is not rendering the code consistently. The obvious error I saw was that the image of the arrow was incorrect.
