RAPIDWEAVING!
This area of the site will be a growing source of information, tutorials and soon themes for those using RapidWeaver. RapidWeaver is a program for Mac OSX written by the team at Realmac Software. It caters for any level of weaving experience, from the beginner to the seasoned pro.
There is a great forum for RapidWeaver you can visit HERE. You will find many helpful users there, willing to help the beginner, or the advanced person with the more obscure tricky problems too.
Theme Editing Basics
This tutorial is designed to help people get 'under the hood' of a RapidWeaver theme to make those little changes you really need. We provide links to useful apps to help you edit the files contained in the theme.
Styled Text Tricks
Styled Text areas are available in many parts of RapidWeaver, and in many plugins too. It is one of it's big strengths. Learn here how to start making the most of what this big part of RapidWeaver has to offer.
Rollover Logo
A tutorial to show you how to add a logo with a mouseover type effect to your RapidWeaver project. We either add it to the project, or to the theme used.
iWeb2RapidWeaver
Here we have a tutorial designed to allow you to get pages from larger iWeb projects into RapidWeaver without having to code them from scratch. This should save considerable time over rewriting all your pages straight away.
RapidWeaver to MobileMe.
This is an older tutorial for those of you still using RapidWeaver 3.6.x as it can't publish directly to the 'personal' hosting space on MobileMe, ie web.me.com/username/ which is where domains pointed at MobileMe accounts are directed. This shows you how to get around this limitation. RapidWeaver 4.x has this facility built in.
Stacks
Choose this page for details on 3 WebKarnage stacks, one of which is free for the time being! TabStack (the free one), SqueezeBox and SpaceGallery can add some extra class to your Stacks pages!
Products
TabStack allows you to add tabbed content.SqueezeBox is an accordion style effect.
SpaceGallery is a Time Machine style gallery.
Themes
We have the free Black Diamond theme available here (first released June '09), and we are now releasing Black Diamond Pro with Extra Content and more. We have a couple more themes in the works for later this year. If you have things you wish to see in a theme, why not get in touch?
iWeb or RapidWeaver?
This outlines some of the differences and some of the reasons why you might want to choosing one or the other. There are major differences, but some of these are not immediately obvious. We hope it helps with what to expect and why too.
Stylesheet Fix for IE
This tutorial is designed to reduce the number of stylesheet calls in a RapidWeaver theme to help when you have pages that exceed the number permitted by Internet Exploder Explorer. This happens when your content chosen requires additional calls and the theme has already used the avialable number.
Donations
If any of my tutorials have been of enough help, please consider a donation!
RapidWeaver to MobileMe.
This is an older tutorial for those of you still using RapidWeaver 3.6.x as it can't publish directly to the 'personal' hosting space on MobileMe, ie web.me.com/username/ which is where domains pointed at MobileMe accounts are directed. This shows you how to get around this limitation.
RapidWeaver 4.x has this facility built in.
OTHER RESOURCES
This is just a few more of our favourite RapidWeaver related resources.
SupportCasts
Far more than just RapidWeaver screen casts, this site does have some of the best RapidWeaver screen casts available. 3 particularly good casters are responsible for the majority of the casts here.
RapidWeaver Central
Marten has put together an amazing and wide ranging collection of resources for anyone using RapidWeaver. We also really like the look of the site too. Go here for all sorts of information on RapidWeaver related things.
myRapidWeaver
This has been quite a long standing set of resources for RapidWeaver users. A very comprehensive list of theme and plugin designers is available, along with links to many tutorial sites and pages.