I am happy to announce today the release of my latest stack called Gyro. The Gyro Stack is an image slider stack that can create elegant banners for your Rapidweaver site. With all of the debates about the future of flash on the web, the smart thing to do is use simple widgets that utilize HTML/CSS/Javascript so that your site can be viewed across all platforms, even mobile. All of this for only $9.95!

Simple

You will enjoy the simplicity of implementing the Gyro Stack. Similarly to the Stacks Plugin, the interface is intuitive and easy to build. There are no more complicated settings for adding assets to your page. Gyro simply uses the out of the box Image Stack. Its could not be any easier to setup!

Elegant

There are 6 different ribbon themes to choose from out of the box. You can easily move these ribbons to the exact position you desire. We plan on adding a lot more themes very soon so that Gyro will be able to blend in with your site décor.

Dynamic

Under the hood, Gyro is a very powerful machine. Gyro will hold as many images as you want and will dynamically build an elegant navigation ribbon. Gyro utilizes the jQuery javascript framework and works very well in all of our favorite browsers: Safari, Firefox, Camino, Opera, Internet Explorer (not a favorite but a necessary evil). It even works great in a mobile browser like on your iPhone!

Pictures are worth a thousand words so for a live demo and support for Gyro please refer to the following sites: Gyro Product Page and the Gyro Demo Site.

Special Promotion! Have some Lime with the Gyro…

ElixirGraphics has released a beautiful new theme by called Lime. Lime is a professional, bold design that is very good for any sort of site you can dream up. It is great for creating a business site, a blog, a portfolio a personal or school site and much more. Please check out the great video overview below of both Lime and Gyro. For more information, please check the Lime Product Page.

Special Promotion!! Since Lime and Gyro work so deliciously together, when you purchase Gyro, you will get a discount code for 15% your purchase of the Lime theme.

Beautiful Gyro Icon

I have to give an extra special thanks to ElixirGraphics for also developing the beautiful Gyro icon!!!

You can see an example of this stack on the PDF Embed Product Page.

While this stack is only going to be $4.95, I thought that I would go ahead and do a promo anyways. You can get $2 off for the next month using the promo code PDF2010.

What’s in the Update?

• Resolved odd behaviors when more than one Cooliris stack is on a single page.
• Change a lot of the settings from sliders to input boxes to allow more fine grain control over the size elements.
• There is now the ability to stream your video feeds directly from YouTube!

Cooliris Promo

I would like to provide a $3 discount for all new customers of the Cooliris Stack. To obtain this discount, simply use the discount code COOL2010 at checkout. Remember we still have the 2010 Stacks Giveaway happening for just 2 more days! Purchase your stacks soon to get entered to win!!!

This update is free for all customers who have already purchased the Cooliris Stack. You will be receiving an email with details on how to obtain your updated stacks.

What’s in the Update?

• JQuery is now running in noConflict mode in order to not conflict with other javascript libraries.

This update is free for everybody!!! Just go and get the Browser Reject Stack, its FREE!

What’s in the Update?

• The stack is now properly using the jquery.browser.min.js file
• Upgraded to JQuery v1.4.1
• Fixed some typo errors in the settings pane.
• Added a FAQ on possible values for the Custom Rejects.

This update is free for everybody!!! Just go and get the Browser Reject Stack, its FREE!

What’s in the Update?

• The Offsite Stack has been upgraded to use JQuery v1.4.1. This new version is much smoother in rendering the resize effects.
• The height settings were changed from being a slider to simply an input field. This allows you to specify the exact height without the fudge factor that the slider settings have.
• Added a new width setting to allow you to specify the exact width you want. You can use percentages or a defined pixel width.
• Fixed issues with the Gecko browsers (such as Firefox) where the height of the offsite source was getting improperly set.
• Updated the dmg to include an installer application. Installing these stacks could not be easier now.

How to Upgrade the Offsite Stacks

The following is a quick tutorial on how you can upgrade the stacks on your stacks page.

1. Drag new stack onto page.
2. Copy the settings from old stack into the new version.
3. Delete old stack from the page

This update is free for all customers who have already purchased the Offsite Stack. You will be receiving an email with details on how to obtain your updated stacks.

If you follow me on Twitter, than you probably know that I have been testing a new release of my CMS/CSS Stacks. I am happy to announce that v1.5 of this awesome stack set is ready for primetime.

Please keep reading for more details on this update and a special promo we have for new purchases.

What’s in the Update?

1. All Stacks have been standardized in the background to ensure no conflict with any other stacks.
2. 2 NEW STACKS!! New and simplified versions of the Text and Floating Text stacks have been developed so that using these stacks is a no brainer. Just enter in your text and go…
3. The previous versions of the Text and Floating Text stacks have been renamed to “Advanced” for users that still would like to use their more advanced features.
4. The Image Stack now has width and height settings.

How to Upgrade the CMS/CSS Stacks

Because of the changes that were made under the hood in these stacks, there is some work that will need to be done if you want to upgrade your existing sites that use these stacks. However, your sites will still function perfectly if you do not upgrade the stacks on your pages. The only time that you will have to follow this upgrade path is if….

1. You want the new width and height settings for an image stack.
2. You with like to use the new simplified Text and/or Text Floating stack instead of your existing version.
3. If you are bored and have some time on your hands!

The following is a quick tutorial on how you can upgrade the stacks on your stacks page.

1. Drag new stack onto page.
2. Copy content and settings from old stack into the new version.
3. Delete old stack from the page

Get the Most of of Your Stacks

The number one thing that is needed for you realize the the full potential of these stacks is training. Over the next few weeks, we will be adding training to the new CMS Classroom section on the CMS Stacks Page. We are looking for training topics that you want to see. Please feel free to send us a message about what training you would like to see.

Lastly, I would like to provide a $5 discount for all new customers of the CMS Stacks. To obtain this discount, simply use the discount code CMS2010 at checkout. Remember we still have the 2010 Stacks Giveaway happening this month! Purchase your stacks soon to get entered to win!!!

ScreenCastsOnline has done an amazing job at showing off how to get started using Stacks with RapidWeaver. http://www.screencastsonline.com/index_files/SCO0232-rw4stacks.php

If you’re not familiar with ScreenCastsOnline, Don McAllister was one of the very first and probably the very best Screencaster anywhere. As you might expect, the screencasts are all on great topics, have super video and audio quality. But really, the most notable feature of the screencasts are Don himself: he’s super easy to understand and seems to know exactly when to slow down and when to speed up.

If you’re looking to get up and running on RapidWeaver, Stacks, or even some of the 3rd party stacks, this is a great time to join ScreenCastsOnline. You not only get the latest screencast, but also access to quite a few of the previous screencasts on RapidWeaver.

Definitely check it out. Sign up. You’ll be glad you did.

This post was originally written by Isaiah of YourHead Software on his blog.

The following are the details about the update…
The below CSS code can be added to the CSS section (within the Header tab) of your page inspector.

Table Width

There are times that you may want the Rows Stack to take up the entire width of a page, or maybe you want the table to be a specific width. This is extremely easy to do. Here are a couple examples:

Entire Width of Page

.rows_table { width: 100% }

Specific Width

.rows_table { width: 400px }

Column Width

If you are building a large table using multiple Rows Stacks, you will be able to adjust the width of the same column for each Rows stack with one easy setting. As you can see each column has its own CSS class: col1 (for column 1), col2 (for column 2), etc.

Width Relative to Page Width

.col1 { width: 25% }

.col2 { width: 50% }

.col3 { width: 10% }

.col4 { width: 15% }

Specific Width

.col1 { width: 50px }

.col2 { width: 200px }

.col3 { width: 100px }

.col4 { width: 300px }

Customizing Specific Rows

You also have the ability to customize each row individually with CSS. This functionality leverages the new ID field in the Rows Stack settings HUD. If the ID were set to “1″ then I could manipulate that row with the CSS ID “#row1″. The below example changes the background color of the Header row (row1).

Changing Background Color

.rows_table { background-color: #333333 }

Make sure to watch the overview video on the Rows Product Page to see exactly how useful this stack will be.

While this stack is only going to be $4.95, I thought that I would go ahead and do a promo anyways. You can still get $2 off until the end of the month using the promo code Rows2010.

I have a very exciting contest starting TODAY!!! Every paid order from my stacks store from 12/31/2009 through 1/31/2010 will be entered into a random drawing for the following prizes…

The Prizes

4th Place –
10 lucky contestants will receive $10 off anything at my store.

3rd Place -
5 lucky contestants will receive $25 off anything at my store.

2nd Place -
1 lucky contestant will receive a license to YourHead’s awesome new Twitter app Kiwi.

1st Place -
1 Lucky contestant will receive my Ultimate Stack Pack that contains ALL of my stacks!

!!!GRAND PRIZE!!! -
1 lucky contestant will win the right to get every stack that I develop in 2010! How cool is that!!!!

How to Enter to Win

It could not be simpler… Just make any purchase at my store between 12/31/2009 and 1/31/2010!!! You will automatically be entered to win!

I hope that you all have an awesome New Year! Lets hope you win….