Photoshop plugins offer a quick and easy way to get more from the software. The right plugin can save you time, unlock new features, and smooth out your workflow, but finding the right plugin for the job can be a time-consuming process. That's why we've gathered our favourite Photoshop plugins. The stack file will end with a “.stack” extension. Once you double-click the theme file RapidWeaver will launch, if it wasn’t running already, and the Stacks plugin will then install the stack for you. After installation you’ll want to make sure you quit, and then restart RapidWeaver. Stacks plugin (4) by YourHead for RapidWeaver (8) by RealMac Software is a game changer for the RapidWeaver community. Stacks makes it easy for developers to code Stacks – that makes it easy for users & designers – to focus on design & creativity rather than code.
RapidWeaver is a powerful, extensible web design and development tool from Realmac Software. YourHead Software produces what are easily some of the most popular plug-ins that bring everything from WYSIWYG tools, unique navigation menus, and a PayPal shopping cart to RapidWeaver. Now YourHead has a new private beta plug-in, called Stacks, that melds some of its best plug-ins together, and we have unlimited invites for Ars Technica readers.
Stacks (RapidWeaver plugin) is a new way to create pages in RapidWeaver. It’s a plugin designed to combine drag-and-drop simplicity with the power of fluid layout.
One of RapidWeaver's key philosophies is that sites are comprised of different 'Pages,' such as a Blog page or a Photo Album page, each with intrinsic, customizable features specific to the content that goes on those pages. RapidWeaver also offers Styled Text and HTML Code pages if you need a blank slate, and Stacks (like many of YourHead's plug-ins) is a new page style that allows users to build fluid, organized pages with simple drag-and-drop operations.
Creating a Stacks page in RapidWeaver, with Text, Columns, and Stack objects, a couple images, and a few object styles applied
When creating a new Stacks page (which requires RapidWeaver 4.x, by the way), a Library sidebar appears on the right containing a number of different types of content objects that can be dragged onto the page to build a skeletal framework. You can drag a Text object to the top of the page for a banner or headline, then a Column object just below to create a space for organized content, then a Left Floating Image or Right Floating Image object for an area to write text that will wrap around a photo. If these object types remind you of other YourHead plug-ins like Columns or Blocks, you aren't the only one. Stacks really feels like a natural evolution, or perhaps a fusion, of these other plug-ins, bringing some of their best attributes into a single plug-in designed for easy, structured, but fluid RapidWeaver webpage creation.
So far this is webpage layout in its most basic of forms, but Stacks gets a lot more interesting with its support for nested objects. Some objects, like Columns or a Stack, support nesting, so you can place a Columns object alongside a Right Floating Image object inside a Stack object, or place Columns objects inside Columns objects to stack a horizontal row of images interspersed with text. Each nested object supports its own formatting options for things like borders, backgrounds, padding, and margins as well, and all of this should render properly inside the RapidWeaver theme you chose for each site.
That same Stacks page rendered live in a default RapidWeaver theme, with all objects and formatting
I've been using Stacks for a little while in this beta and it works pretty well. I'm not building any serious sites at the moment, but the process of dragging Library objects onto a page to build a framework and then dragging or pasting in content to flesh things out is a breeze. Stacks certainly is a beta, though, which means two things. The first is that there are likely to be bugs, so be careful using this on any critical sites. The second is that, once YourHead polishes Stacks for a 1.0 release, it will turn into a commercial plug-in with a yet-to-be-determined price.
That said, we scored an unlimited number of invites for Ars readers, so have at it if Stacks sounds like your cup of tea. The beta version of this plug-in expires on January 31, after which another beta may be offered or the 1.0 may be shipping.
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