# Volcano and Stacks Beginner **URL:** \ **Category:** RapidWeaver Classic\ **Created:** [January 15, 2017, 4:05pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/volcano-and-stacks-beginner/12016 "2017-01-15T16:05:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![hsakols](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/838e76/32.png) [@hsakols](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/hsakols)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2017, 4:05pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/volcano-and-stacks-beginner/12016/1 "2017-01-15T16:05:29Z")
Here I go - I’m designing my first RW site using the theme Volcano I"m thinking that I need to purchase the Stacks plug in to have the most control in my design (short of foundations / foundary)? Is it possible to use stacks to add an image onto a solid colored banner like I have done on my softpress site: www.yosemitecollection ? would I be able to use stacks to create a gallery page that looks similar to this: [http://www.yosemitecollection.com/galleries.html](http://www.yosemitecollection.com/galleries.html) ? Or maybe I don’t need to bother if I use Gallery Stack 3 ? I guess I’m not sure how I’m going to use Stacks, but I’m just starting. Hugh ---
**Author:** ![Mathew](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/mathew/32/2771_2.png) [@Mathew](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/Mathew)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2017, 4:11pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/volcano-and-stacks-beginner/12016/2 "2017-01-15T16:11:52Z")
To use any specific stacks (e.g. Gallery 3) you need to have the “master”: Stacks 3.0. You can do a lot with Stacks. But for all the various cool stack-lets that have been built, they only work when you have Stacks installed. ---
**Author:** ![robbo67](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/robbo67/32/30697_2.png) [@robbo67](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/robbo67)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2017, 5:40pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/volcano-and-stacks-beginner/12016/3 "2017-01-15T17:40:40Z")
Hi Hugh, I am a novice user with very limited tech skills and I have found that you really need to have stacks to be able to do what I need with rapidweaver as there are so many great stacks out there to help. For your specific question, you should be able to create a solid coloured banner using your Volcano theme and then here are a multitude of gallery stacks that you can choose from to display your photos. ---
**Author:** ![jabostick](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/jabostick/32/1760_2.png) [@jabostick](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/jabostick)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2017, 6:01pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/volcano-and-stacks-beginner/12016/4 "2017-01-15T18:01:07Z")
Hi Hugh, the others are correct that Stacks 3 would be a good investment. To give you an option for your questions specifically (I say ‘option’ because there’s often multiple ways to do things): > [@hsakols](#): > > Is it possible to use stacks to add an image onto a solid colored banner like I have done on my softpress site? You could use a 2-column stack, give it a red background, and then in the left column, use a header stack (or an image stack if your title is an image) and in the right column, use an image stack > [@hsakols](#): > > would I be able to use stacks to create a gallery page that looks similar to this: For this you would create a Stacks page and then I think what you would want is a set of galleries that launch from a single image. I know the Photo stack by Nick Cates does this - @instacks can say if this is possible with his Gallery 3 stack (I’d imagine it is possible). ---
**Author:** ![instacks](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/instacks/32/23339_2.png) [@instacks](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/instacks)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2017, 6:12pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/volcano-and-stacks-beginner/12016/5 "2017-01-15T18:12:49Z")
A “gallery of galleries” can easily be done with a - responsive column Stack (also the column stacks coming with Stacks Plugin 3 are responsive), - dropping images to that columns, pointing to sub pages, - on each sup page an instance of [http://rapidweavercommunity.com/addons/stacks/gallery-stack](http://rapidweavercommunity.com/addons/stacks/gallery-stack) Cheers 🍻 ---
**Author:** ![hsakols](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/838e76/32.png) [@hsakols](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/hsakols)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2017, 6:14pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/volcano-and-stacks-beginner/12016/6 "2017-01-15T18:14:34Z")
Thanks for all the help. Yes, I just downloaded Stacks 3 and things now make much more sense. Pretty slick!