February 2012
10 posts
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New PopUp Stack Released
PopUp is a new little stack that adds a pop up box over your content. It’s super easy to use and works with any content on your Stacks page and anything in the popup. That means you can use it with images, text, or whatever. You can even drop a bunch of stacks into the popup.
You can get it here.
I’ve set up a demo page here.
New Preloader Stack →
Preloader will place temporary blank divs with customizable loading images as placeholders until images are loaded onto your webpage. This will give your webpages a cleaner look while they are being downloaded.
New Houdini Stack →
Houdini will magically transport your stacks into previously mysterious territories! You can perform magic on with your sidebar, footer, extra content areas with zero coding! With a small snippet, you can transport anywhere you like.
New Fluid Columns Stack →
Fluid Columns is a responsive design based columns stack. If you have a responsive or variable width site, this stack will allow you to create columns on your website that will be dynamically rearranged based on the browser width.
Updated TextRotatr Stack →
TextRotatr rotates “slides” of text in a stylish manner. You can display quotations, text or just about anything that has to do with print. With three four unique text animations, TextRotatr will definitely add life to your website.
New GeoTarget Stack →
GeoTarget allows you to target the content of your website to where in the world your visitors are. You can change the content of your webpage based on country, state or even city!
Updated Warehouse Image Stack →
Since stacks began, users have wanted to warehouse images. You can now easily place an image onto you stacks page by referencing it via a url or linking it via Rapidweaver resources.
New SpecialFX Stack →
The SpecialFx stack will allow you to add some cool effects to your stacks. You can achieve 1000 different effects! Effects can happen on page load, on hover, click, and even by clicking a link or button. These effects can be used to draw attention to a section of your page, reveal new content and hide it away.
Updated Image Slider Stack →
Image Slider is an iPhone, iPad, and iPod compatible Javascript effect for your photos. With Image Slider you can quickly and easily wrap your images into a lightweight and customizable slideshow with Navigation Controls and Paging! If you’re on an iPhone or iPad, swipe left or right to change slides — it’s that easy!
Updated Image Pop Stack →
Image light-boxing stack, with auto square thumbnail generation.
Image Pop Automatically creates a square thumbnail image from any larger image you drop inside. Click the generated thumbnail image to trigger the light-box, containing your large original image.
Works in all major browsers including IOS.
New in V2.0.2
Faster page load times. Fixed IE7 rendering bug.
January 2012
33 posts
Updated Hide 'n' Show Stack →
When you’re showing your photos in large sizes, your visitors might find it annoying that they are covered by the menu and content. Wouldn’t it be great if they are able to Hide and Show the content with a simple mouse click? With the Hide ‘n’ Show stack they can…
This stack started as a much requested solution for the full screen photo Themes from Henk Vrieselaar. So...
Updated YouTube Pop Stack →
Deploy single or multiple, light-boxed YouTube videos, with standard YouTube embed code.
The stack will automatically generate a thumbnail image from the video, as the light-box trigger.
Works on all major browsers including IOS.
New in V2.0.3
Improved page load times. Fixed some stray rendering bugs in IE7.
Updated Vimeo Pop Stack →
Deploy single or multiple, Light-boxed Vimeo videos, with standard Vimeo embed code.
The stack will automatically generate a thumbnail image from the video, as the light-box trigger.
Works on all major browsers including IOS.
Updated Magnify Image Stack →
The Image Magnify Stack is an amazing stack that allows you to hover over an image and have a magnified version of it appear. You can then navigate over the image and watch the magnified version move along with your mouse.
Updated Preview Image Stack →
Preview Image shows a full scale preview of an image when the mouse hovers over a thumbnail. The preview window hovers along with the mouse above all content and can be configured to show in any position relative to the mouse: left, right, above or below.
Updated Popup Caption Stack →
The Image Popup Stacks is the easiest way to add popup captions to your images. When you hover over the image, it will reveal contents of the caption.
Updated Zoom Image Stack →
The Image Zoom Stack gives you’re a great effect of zooming the image from a thumb- nail to the full version by simply clicking on the image
Updated Image Safe Stack →
Image Safe allows you to protect your images form being easily copied off your website. It will stop users from being able to drag images out of the web browser or use contextual menus to save images off your site.
Updated Image Zoom Stack →
Zoom Image gives you a great effect of zooming the image from a thumbnail to the full version by simply clicking on the image.
Updated Image Puzzle Stack →
The Image Puzzle Stack is a really fun stack that allows you to turn any image into a puzzle. The puzzles are very easy to play, just click on the square you would like to move.
Blueball StyleSwitchr Stacks v2.0 Free Update Out...
Blueball Design is proud to announce the release of our StyleSwitchr stacks bundle v2.0 update that is fully compatible with Stacks 2.
This update includes 4 brand new StyleSwitchr stacks that include the ability to add in 2, 3, 4, or 6 style color swatch boxes for a viewer to click on to switch to an alternative style sheet to change the look of your site page. You can have minor or major...
Major Blueball ImageMapper v3 Stacks Update...
Blueball Design is happy to announce the new FREE v3.0 update of our ImageMapper stacks bundle that is fully compatible with Stacks 2.0!
This ImageMapper stacks update includes 2 brand new ImageMapper 6 and ImageMapper 8 stacks giving you a total of 6 ImageMapper stacks to use, allowing you to easily add up to 8 clickable linked image map areas to any image in your Stacks 2 page layout.
The...
Update X-Sizer Stacks →
X-Sizer is a utility stack that finds the available width you have in any area of your page.
Let’s say you want to place an image in the page, and you need to know exactly the width to make the image.
Just drop an X-Sizer stack in first, and it will show you the exact pixel dimensions you have available in the width.
We present the stack in a gorgeous UI to heighten the simplicity of...
Updated DooTweets Stack →
Tweets enables you to show up to 200 of your latest Twitter tweets on your webpage.
The stack comes uniquely styled by default. There are also many options to further style the Twitter feed design, to fit right in to your own unique theme design.
Date Time Stack
Date Time
Date Time will dynamically display today’s date or the date that your webpage was last published. You can chose from over a dozen different date and time formats. It also supports localization in 25 different languages! You can also style the text size and color. For more info, check out the Date Time Product Page.
5 Free New Stacks
Auto Refresh
This is a really simple stack that allows you to auto refresh your webpage. Just define the number of seconds that you want to refresh and away you go! For more info, check out the Auto Refresh Product Page.
Elevator
A couple weeks ago, a community favorite, Ed Brenner asked me to develop this stack for him. I thought that it was a nice little stack idea! Inspired by the...
Markdown Stack
Markdown is getting crazy popular. Now you can type your webpage contents directly in Markdown and have it converted to HTML for you automatically! The stack comes with a great cheat sheet built-in in order to help you get up to speed with the Markdown syntax. For more info, check out the Markdown Product Page.
I hope that you enjoy these new stacks!
Monitor websites with Siren
Siren is definitely like no other stack out there. Siren will monitor any url and tell you when its down. You can also have it verify that certain content exists on your webpage and alarm on that. It displays alarms to the browser as well as it can email you! This is a great tool to monitor and alert both you or your clients when a site goes down.
For more info, head over to the Siren Product...
Fluid Image Stack
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<p>Fluid Image is a responsive design based image stack. If you have a responsive or variable width site, this stack will allow the image to grow and shrink in size with your site instead of just sitting there at the same fixed height and width. You can even apply CSS borders,...
Grid Iron - Google Spreadsheets with Style
Grid Iron makes it easy to integrate Google Spreadsheets directly into your site. With Grid Iron you can:
Add a Live Search box for fast filtering.
Format and style your Spreadsheet with Markdown
Optionally apply column sorting.
Customize column header colors and various table properties.
Apply automatic colspan of columns.
View and download the demo now.
RoarBox Stack Update →
The RoarBox stack is designed to popup in the top corner of the screen at a time you specify. The popup box contains an icon and text that you can add yourself. The text portion of the stack is editable in exactly the same way as a default text stack, so you can add links and images if you desire.
Any image you drop into the image drop-zone in the edit area will be converted to the icon for...
Top Chauffeur Stack Update →
The Top Chauffeur Stack Drives your user effortlessly back to the top of the page.
This dynamic stack produces a custom button on page scroll that allows users to click and return to the top of your page. The button is fully customizable and scalable.
The button fades in discretely, in the bottom right hand corner of the browser window, when the user has scrolled down the page somewhat.
New SuperFlex Stack →
SuperFlex is based upon on the popular responsive slideshow “Flex Slider” - but improved with streamlined design, drop-dead easy stack interface, and banner importing into existing NCD Themes. SuperFlex allows slideshows to beautifully scale within the coming direction of responsive design sites and themes.
DIspatch Dropbox Stack Update →
The Dispatch Dropbox Stack allows you to upload files from your website to an Dropbox account through a beautiful and customizable upload form. You have the ability to upload multiple files, require a passphrase, limit file size, file extensions and much more.
Updated Post Office Stack →
Post Office is a great email subscription form that also completely manages its database for you. It allows you to subscribe, unsubscribe and even export your customer info! Post Office also integrates with MadMimi, MailChimp, AWeber, and Newsletter Mailer.
Updated SignUp Stack →
Ever wanted to have a simple but very stylish and functional Newsletter Signup Form on your page? Here is the SignUp Stack to let you collect user information and build a news subscription list for your newsletters. There are many possibilities configuring this stack, from the visual design to where and how you want to add it. Add it to the sidebar the content or to an extra content spot. It is...
Updated gSearch Stack →
Add a Google Site Search to any RapidWeaver Page and Theme with the gSearch Stack. There is very little to configure and the stack works right out of the box. The results are automatically shown for the domain your RW site is published and is loaded via AJAX. This means: no page refresh. You can place the search field at different spots: above the main content, in the sidebar - or with very little...
Updated Tabulous Stack →
The Tabulous Stack is going to quickly turn into the most utilized slider stack in your arsenal! Tabulous allows you to easily create elegant content sliders for your Rapidweaver site.
Updated Dispatch SFTP Stack →
The Dispatch SFTP Stack allows you to upload files from your website to your server through a beautiful and customizable upload form. You have the ability to upload multiple files, require a passphrase, limit file size, file extensions and much more.
Updated Dispatch Amazon S3 Stack →
The Dispatch Amazon S3 Stack allows you to upload files from your website to an Amazon S3 account through a beautiful and customizable upload form. You have the ability to upload multiple files, require a passphrase, limit file size, file extensions and much more.
New Grid Iron Stack →
Grid Iron makes embedding Google Spreadsheets easy and good looking.
In addition to Google Spreadsheet, Grid Iron also features Markdown for adding styles and formatting to your table, jQuery Live Search for fast filtering, and custom table sorting. You can even specify which columns are (or are not) sortable!
New Bullet Pro Stack →
QUICK PROFESSIONAL, EXPANDABLE BULLETED LISTS
With Bullet Pro, it is easy to create up-to 100 items in a list and have that list contracted to a set number of items on page load, until your viewer clicks your “Show More” link.
Initialis Stack
Stack-Its is pleased to announce the arrival of Initialis. Have there been times when you looked at page layouts that featured a stylish decorative starting element and wished you could too?
Well, your wait is over: Initialis allows you to easily create a stunning drop cap initial at the start of your paragraphs and is available in three different font sets.
Start with a custom letter or...
December 2011
28 posts
Blueball FreeStack Add-Ons Pack #1 Stacks v2.0...
I am very pleased to announce the release of our Blueball FreeStack Add-Ons Pack #1 stacks v2.0 update for Stacks 2 today! This update is fully compatible with Stacks 2.0 and its new features, and makes using the FreeStack theme even better while designing and creating your Rapidweaver sites with Stacks 2!
This FreeStack Add-Ons Pack 1 v2.0 update will require you to install all 7 updated...
Backgrounds Media Stack
12 Stunning background media tiles in one handy media stack
You can drag these 100px x 100px media background tiles, directly from the media stack, to any image placeholder in your stacks page.
Highly optimized 100px square media background tiles, beautifully created as image media for Stacks2.
YOU CAN SEE A DEMO OF THIS MEDIA STACK HERE
Speech Bubble Stack
I decided to go ahead and completely rewrite Speech Bubble for Stacks 2. Enjoy! You can get the update via Stacks 2 sparkle. This is a free update to all current owners.
SpeechBubbles - v2.0.0
New! New version built just for Stacks 2!!
New! 15 new gradient styles to choose from.
New! Full drop shadow control.
New! Control over padding and corner radius.
Go check out Speech Bubbles now.
Quarantine Stack
Never lose a stack again (hide it, don’t delete it) Designed purely to aid you in development. Stacks dragged into Quarantine will be saved but never seen in the preview or published page. Striking, intuitive interface. That can be compacted to icon size when not in use. Designed exclusively for Stacks2.
SEE A DEMO OF THE QUARANTINE STACK HERE
Notes Stack
Keep track of your development behind the scenes A beautiful stack designed for you to keep notes in your edit area, that will never ever be seen in the preview or published page. The interface of this stack is truly delicious. And can be compacted to an icon size, in the edit area. Designed exclusively for Stacks2.
SEE A DEMO OF THE NOTES STACK HERE
SublimeVideobab
The plugin allows you to add video to your stacks page using a script from sublimevideo.net. It’s compatible with iOS Devices.
The addon manages HD videos, looping and auto play, allows you to choose your poster, and uses the lightbox effect.
Download and information page
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Pro Columns Stack
No matter how much content you place in either column, the other will always expand to the same height. Pro Columns, frames your content, providing the eye with a far more appealing layout. You can even set the background of the columns as transparent, or fill them with your chosen colour. Designed for Stacks2.
SEE A DEMO OF PRO COLUMNS HERE