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Create ExtraContent libraries with Stacks and Pluskit

seyDoggy — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:52:10 +0000

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.

Working With Stacks and the EC Stacks Plugin

seyDoggy — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 15:51:45 +0000

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.

Robbies Falcon Pro uses ExtraContent for headers!

seyDoggy — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 03:45:34 +0000

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

ExtraContent is not scary!

seyDoggy — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 22:48:40 +0000

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.

Creamux, Partitions, Stacks and Pluskit oh my!

seyDoggy — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 18:01:13 +0000

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.

RapidWeaver Classroom plays more with PlayMore

seyDoggy — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:57:43 +0000

Ryan Smith, over at RapidWeaver Classroom has done another bang up tutorial showing the ins and outs of the seyDoggy PlayMore theme. Ryan covers the use of each ExtraContent area as it pertains tothe PlayMore theme and also demonstrates some more tricks with Loghound.com Pluskit, including adding a Contact form to the bottom of your page and adding a YourHead Carousel page above the content. Also covered in this tutorial is how to add a custom header image using RWmultitool Lite.

RapidWeaver Classroom HD Screencast: The PlayMore Theme and ExtraContent Feature from Ryan Smith on Vimeo.

RapidWeaver Classroom tackles seyDoggy’s Gotem theme

seyDoggy — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 02:16:34 +0000

Ryan Smith over at RapidWeaver Classroom was awesome enough to make a VERY detailed movie about many aspects of the seyDoggy Gotem theme and ExtraContent. Ryan does an incredibly thorough and level headed job of outlining each ExtraContent area, some nifty tricks with Pluskit from Loghound.com, attaching images with assets and much more.

You might also notice a little promotional deal at the movies intro. You would be wise to take advantage of that kind of offer.

RapidWeaver Classroom HD Screencast: The Gotem Theme and ExtraContent Feature from Ryan Smith on Vimeo.

seyDoggy adds another ExtraContent area to Gotem

seyDoggy — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 01:59:01 +0000

Today seyDoggy released an update to their Gotem theme, adding one more ExtraContent to allow the insertion of text into the “traditional” sidebar area.

There was numerous requests for the ability for users to add content in their RapidWeaver sites to the “traditional” sidebar area in our Gotem theme.

By default, content added to the sidebar field in RapidWeaver gets added to the area just beside the header image. With the new third ExtraContent area you can now add sidebar content to it’s traditional location along side the main content area.

This tutorial covers how to utilize the new ExtraContent area to get text into the traditional sidebar location.

seyDoggy Gotem ExtraContent are #3 from Adam Merrifield on Vimeo.

seyDoggy releases PlayMore with 3 ExtraContent areas

seyDoggy — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 04:47:06 +0000

seyDesign.com releases their latest theme, PlayMore which utilizes three ExtraContent areas.

Check out the tutorial video which outlines the basic addition of content into those ExtraContent areas.

seyDoggy PlayMore ExtraContent introduction from Adam Merrifield on Vimeo.

ExtraContent on SupportCasts.com

seyDoggy — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:31:31 +0000

This one comes courtesy of SupportCasts.com and goes over a few ExtraContent basics from the seyDoggy Gotem theme and RWT’s Buzz theme.