If you watched the last movie, we introduced you to the ExtraContent Stack, an addition for your YourHead Stacks Library. In this movie we are showing you how to harness the power of Stacks, Pluskit and the ExtraContent Stack to create a virtual library of prebuilt ExtraContent Stacks that you can pull into any page, repeatedly, using Pluskit’s @import(()) rule.

To watch a larger version of this movie, click here.

ExtraContent; Working With Stacks and Pluskit from Adam Merrifield on Vimeo.

Tags: ExtraContent Stacks Plugin, libraries, plugin, PlusKit, Stacks

The ExtraContent Developer SDK has been updated to r1.3. This update improves compatibility with end user content that includes script blocks or script calls. This would include those who are using Pluskit’s @import(()) rule to pull in YourHead’s Collage 2 or Kwix pages. This should also improve FireFox support for the same issue.

I would consider the change major enough to warrant updating your themes with this new version as soon as you have done your own complete and comprehensive testing. The improved compatibility will make many end users happy.

Also in this update we have included the latest jQuery build, v1.3.2, and have updated or added a few of the snippets. We have also included a new documents folder with weblocs to all of the necessary tutorials and manual.

The last item of interest added to the SDK is the ExtraContent Stack for use with YourHead’s Stacks plugin which you can freely distribute in your packages.

Download the SDK here.

Tags: collage, developer, kwix, script, SDK, update

With all the exciting news yesterday about our the ExtraContent Stacks Plugin that you can add to your Stacks Library, we just couldn’t wait to show you it in action. There is too much good stuff for just one movie though this is the first in what will likely become a 2 or 3 part series. Enjoy!

Working With Stacks

In this screen cast we are going to give a quick introduction to the ExtraContent Stacks plugin, so before you start, you are going to need Stack from YourHead Software and the free ExtraContent Stacks Plugin.

You can also see the large version of this movie here.

ExtraContent; Working With Stacks (H2.64_HD) from Adam Merrifield on Vimeo.

Tags: ExtraContent Stacks Plugin, plugin, RapidWeaver, Stacks, YourHead

I’m sure you’ve read recently of the launch of YourHead’s Stacks 1.0 and are aware at just how brilliantly powerful Stacks is. I’ve also showed you a tutorial using Stacks, Pluskit and ExtraContent together to make some brilliant layouts in your ExtraContent areas, but what if you could use Stacks and ExtraContent together, with no code, no snippets?

Playing around with the Stacks API last night brought me to that very end. I wrote the ExtraContent Stacks Plugin, a Stacks Library component that you just drag into your stack page like you would any other stack. Click the info button, enter the value ExtraContent area you want it to occupy and that’s it. Just build what you want inside that stack… images, code, columns… and when you preview it in your ExtraContent enabled theme it renders in the ExtraContent area of your choice!

So what makes this so cool is that now ExtraContent is for everyone. I mean we did a pretty good job of making it as user friendly as possible with the tiny snippets of code, but there are some who will still get a little queasy at the site of that four letter word, code. So this option of using ExtraContent as a stack really is the way to go for those people.

You can download the ExtraContent Stacks Plugin here.

Read the instruction manual here.

Tags: ExtraContent Stacks Plugin, plugin, RapidWeaver, Stacks, YourHead

Not sure how we missed this one back on February 6th, but it looks like Gary at RapidWeaverThemes.com unveiled a brand new theme to the RapidWeaver forums called Mello. Mellow appears to have 4 ExtraContent areas, one in the header, one in the sidebar, one below the content and one in the footer area.

Tags: introduction, Mello, News, RapidWeaverThemes, RWT

Yesterday, Robbie White launched his latest foray into RapidWeaver theme development with an ambitious theme, Falcon Pro, that sports not only ExtraContent, but a slew of other features as well. One note worth mentioning here is his innovative use of the ExtraContent method to create custom headers for your projects, with a little help from YourHead Blocks and Loghound Pluskit.

Blocks Header Design in Falcon Pro w/PlusKit

Falcon Pro Header Titles Image design in Blocks

Tags: Blocks, Falcon Pro, headers, introduction, PlusKit, Robbie White

Earlier this week, Henk Vrieselaar released another addition to the ExtraContent enabled theme field with his latest release, Magazine. Sporting what looks like two ExtraContent areas and a metric butt-load of other options, Magazine looks like it’s packed and ready for action.

We haven’t seen any screen casts from Henk yet, but if we do you can be sure they will get posted here.

Tags: Henk Vrieselaar, introduction, Magazine, News

When you release a new technology or a different way of doing things there will always be those who embrace it and those who balk at it. One thing that helps ensure a higher proportion of the former to the latter is educating the masses as best you can.

This is one such example. In previous movies we’ve talked about all of the REALLY cool things you can do, hoping that the innate RapidWeaver functions abilities would have been obvious. In some respects, we were wrong in that assumption so I am taking this opportunity to back it up a notch, go back to RapidWeaver basics and show you that you can use an ExtraContent enabled theme just as you would any other. In addition, we show you that it doesn’t take a coding wizard to employ the ExtraContent features.

Just watch and see. You’ll be amazed at how easy it is. There is also a large version of this movie if you prefer.

ExtraContent is not scary from Adam Merrifield on Vimeo.

Tags: how to, information, introduction

With the release of the newest seyDoggy theme, Creamux, seyDoggy has launched this new tutorial movie. It not only shows how and where to use the ExtraContent areas available in Creamux, but also demonstrates some pretty cool tricks using Partitions, Stacks and Pluskit. This one is sure to come in really handy.

Creamux and @import from Adam Merrifield on Vimeo.

Tags: Creamux, Partitions, PlusKit, seyDesign, seyDoggy, Stacks