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The RapidWeaver Show

Summary: A weekly podcast bringing you a lighthearted look at building websites with RapidWeaver, the powerful website creation tool from Realmac Software. Each week we cover the latest RapidWeaver news, cover new Addons, and discuss a web-related topic. The show is hosted by Ben & Dan Counsell.

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 Episode 15: Running a business with RapidWeaver | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:52:55

This week on the Beaver and Bison show we discuss a new feature we've added to RapidWeaver 7! In community news we clarify where and when the subscribers podcasts will be available, let you know that Ivy 2 has been released and that Total & Easy CMS have been updated. Our topic (as promised!) this week is "Running a business with RapidWeaver". We talk about dealing with clients, choosing the right theme, publishing the site, setting up a store, online editing and more. We even manage to squeeze a couple of user questions! We'll be back same time, same place, next week. Until then: Happy Weaving :) Ivy 2 Total CMS Easy CMS Bonus Addons for Gold subscribers Stacks RapidCart Pro 4 PayLoom Armadillo

 Episode 14: Long time developers & Macworld 2006 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:45:17

Ben and Dan are back with your weekly RapidWeaver roundup. This week has seen RapidWeaver 6.3.5 finally released, Henk Vrieselaar’s 10 year RapidWeaver anniversary, a new news site and a brand new theme release! There's no topic again this week (please send us your topic ideas!), so we reminisce about Macworld 2006 and the announcement of iWeb! In user questions we talk about responsive images, sharing addons with developers for support purposes and how to upgrade to RapidWeaver 6! We'll be back same time, same place, next week. Until then: Happy Weaving :) PlusKit RapidWeaver 6.3.5 Henk Vrieselaar’s 10 Year Anniversary Weaver News Lode theme from Multithemes Advanced Responsive Image stack Responsive Images Community Group How To Upgrade from RapidWeaver 5 to RapidWeaver 6

 Episode 13: New Addons. New video tutorials. SSL & Animals. | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:47:30

Ben is joined by Dan to discuss three new addons; Impact, Interloper and RapidCart Pro 4 We have two new RapidWeaver video tutorials for you; “ Web Developer Tools Introduction” and “ Creating Partials in Stacks 3”. Finally, we answer your questions about adding SSL to your site, whether you can do anything about content blockers and which animals we would be? We'll be back same time, same place, next week. Until then: Happy Weaving :) Typed.com now supports themes! Impact stack by Joe Workman Interloper stack by tMM Tekh RapidCart Pro 4 Web Developer Tools Introduction video tutorial Creating Partials in Stacks 3 video tutorial $163 of free addons for Gold subscribers Cloudflare SSL

 Episode 12: RW 7 FTP. Hangouts. Video tutorials. Free addons! | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:38:04

Ben is joined by the ever wonderful Dan to discuss a new RapidWeaver 7 feature. We let Joe Workman know that he needs to take it easy after his marathon week of hangouts demoing Total CMS and Easy CMS. We also go through the latest updates to the RapidWeaver Community site, which include a new RapidWeaver video tutorial, more free addons for Gold subscribers and a better way to find addons! Finally we answer a few users questions about HTML vs PHP, project files sizes and where we see RapidWeaver in 5 years. We'll be back same time, same place, next week. Until then: Happy Weaving :) Total CMS Easy CMS Joe Workman's recorded hangouts for Total and Easy CMS In-page Sticky Navigation video tutorial Rails stack by Nick Cates Free Addons for Gold Subscribers Ask us a question Typed.com Foundation theme

 Episode 11: Mud monsters, Gold and The C in CSS. | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:39:33

Ben is joined by Nik to discuss mud monsters, the new community Gold subscriptions and talk about The C in CSS. Dan completed his 10K Mud Monsters run last week, check out his video of mud and sponsor him, if you haven't yet! In community news, Elixir Graphics has _another_ new stack available and we talk about the RapidWeaver Community Gold subscriptions which gives you all our video tutorials, $100+ of free addons, priority support and more! In our topic we discuss the Cascade bit of CSS. We talk about the different ways to include CSS, how to ensure your custom CSS will be applied and give you a few tips on how use the different types of CSS selector. We'll be back same time, same place, next week! Until then: Happy Weaving :) Dan's Mud Monster video RapidWeaver Departure checklist from Yuzool Themes Focus RapidWeaver stack by Elixir Graphics Gold Subscriptions Free Addons Adding Custom CSS in RapidWeaver tutorial Managing RapidWeaver Addons tutorial

 Episode 10: RapidWeaver CMSs & upgrading to Stacks 3 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:36:35

Ben and Dan attempt to pronounce names this week. RapidWeaver 6.3.5 is in beta and there's two new stacks to tell you about. There's no topic again this week (we'll have one for you next week), as we have a lot of questions to get through. Apologies for the poor audio this week, normal service will resume next week! RapidWeaver 6.3.5 beta Hunter 3 Spotify 2 Stacks 3 Timeline stack by Elixir Graphics Adding Meta Tags video tutorial Cartloom RapidCart Total CMS Dan's doing the “10K Mud Monsters Run” to raise money for the Chestnut Tree House Children's Hospice — please sponsor him. Every little helps!

 Episode 9: RapidWeaver Got Yo' Back! | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:54:59

This week Ben is joined by both Dan and Nik to discuss everything RapidWeaver. We follow up on iOS 9 Content Blockers from last week, let you know that RapidWeaver 6 works nicely on El Capitan and give you some early details on another RapidWeaver 7 feature. In Addon news we cover the awesome new CMS stacks from Joe Workman: Easy CMS and Total CMS. There's also information about an upcoming release of RapidCart Pro along with details about our new theme “Highlight”. Finally we answer your questions about Sitemaps, RapidWeaver's built in publishing, a centralised support area and how to backup your project file. We'll be back again same time, same place, next week. Until then, happy weaving! Content Blocker Test 1Blocker Submit your site to the Made With RapidWeaver Gallery forum thread Easy CMS Total CMS RapidCart Pro Highlight theme by Realmac Sitemap plugin from Loghound

 Episode 8: RapidWeaver 7 features, content blockers and user questions galore. | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:43:23

Ben is joined by Dan to give you a sneak peek some upcoming RapidWeaver 7 features! We're really sorry if you received a lot of emails from us this week, we had a bug in our code. We've fixed it now, but we apologies if you received loads of emails from us. In addon news we cover an update to BlogStack (a stack to integrate your typed.com blog in to your RapidWeaver site) and let you know about our new theme called Marketit. We touch on Content Blockers for Safari in iOS9 and how it might block your font icons. Finally in this jam-packed show we answer a few questions from our loverly listeners, including “One Page Sites VS Multipage Sites”, “Will you bring back the ability to sync addons across devices?” and “What is the best way to build a multilingual site?” We'll be back again same time, same place, next week. Until then, happy weaving! Adding a favicon for Safari's new pinned tab in El Capitan RW Stack for Typed.com updated Marketit theme by Realmac Software Custom CSS tutorial Translate stack by JoeWorkman RapidWeaver FAQ - Multilingual websites A multilingual site in RapidWeaver We need more questions! Ask us on the forums! A picture of the boat Nik is on

 Episode 7: Customising the look & feel of your site | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:33:20

Ben is back from holiday and is joined by Dan to discuss PayLoom 3, a new stack by Nick Cates and answer your question (we only had one this week, we need some more!). In our topic we discuss the various ways you can modify the look and feel of your site, from theme styles to custom CSS to modifying themes. We'll be back again same time, same place, next week. Until then, happy weaving!   PayLoom 3 Rails stack Foundation Custom CSS tutorial We need more questions! Ask us on the forums! Made with RapidWeaver gallery is ever-growing - submit your site!  

 Episode 6: Live from Realmac HQ | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:36:11

Ben is away so Dan and Nik have taken over the show for this week. They discuss the latest RapidWeaver updates along with some addon news and catch-up on the backlog of user questions!   Normal service will resume next week. Until then, happy weaving!     Download RapidWeaver 6.3.4 today Make sure your plugins are up to date ahead of OS X El Capitan’s launch Welcome to the RapidWeaver Community, rwTuts and Blueball Design Made with RapidWeaver gallery is ever-growing - submit your site! Realmac Software's Official Theme    

 Episode 5: Wear your white hat. | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:54:08

Ben is joined by Dan to discuss some features we're adding to RapidWeaver 7 and let you know about the new "Timeline" stack from Elixir. In our topic this week we put on our white hats and enter the murky world of SEO. Until next week, happy weaving!     RapidWeaver 7 feature request Timeline Stack by Elixir MetaMate plugin for RapidWeaver SiteMap Pro for RapidWeaver Foundation for RapidWeaver Foundation SEO Helper Stack Ten steps towards improving RapidWeaver SEO Mobilegeddon RapidWeaver SEO Tips & Tricks The Blogger’s Essential Guide to Search Engine Optimization Google AdWords Keyword Planner Google Webmaster Tools Google Structured Data Open Graph

 Episode 4: Russia connects to you. | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:39:25

Ben is joined by Nik to discuss the release of Bricks 2 and Stacks 3. Our topic this week takes in-depth look at what you can do to speed up your RapidWeaver built sites. We cover server-side techniques, caching, DNS and more. We also squeeze in a couple of your user questions. Until next week, happy weaving :)     RapidWeaver 6.3.3 Ask us a question Request a feature for RapidWeaver 7 Bricks 2 Stacks 3 Enable GZIP compression Set long expiration dates for assets ImageOptim (images compression) Unused CSS Google PageSpeed How to create the illusion of faster web pages Web Performance and the Perception of Speed CloudFlare Forward theme by Nick Cates Design

 Episode 3: Smooth on the outside, crunchy on the inside. | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:25:17

Dan and Ben discuss the latest RapidWeaver 6 beta and how to suggest features for RapidWeaver 7. In addon news; you can now integrate a Typed.com blog in to RapidWeaver using BlogStack. Armadillo v2 has been release, allowing you to edit your RapidWeaver content from anywhere, using any device. In user questions we discuss how you would go about integrating a User Membership System into RapidWeaver. We're now on iTunes, so please go and leave a review and rate us 5 stars, but only if you love the show. If you think the show is rubbish, please don't leave a review ;)

 Episode 2: I get ‘em out as quick as I can | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:34:15

Dan and Ben discuss RapidWeaver 7, the Stacks 3 public beta, new features coming to the RapidWeaver Community site and answer some of your questions.

 Episode 1: Welcome to The RapidWeaver Show | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:26:16

Dan and Ben discuss RapidWeaver 6.3.x, Stacks 3, and answer a commonly asked question: "Will RapidWeaver ever be a web-based service?" — to find out the answer you'll need to listen to the show.

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