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00:03 little notes in the in the chat whether or not audio and video is going well um that would be awesome today we have the master weaver himself davide right he's right over there right
00:15 i always have to point opposite way it's always weird with video um so um as you know last week we uh you know i showed off a bunch of websites
00:27 and um a lot of you loved davide's designs so i was like you know what i got to get the the legend online for you guys to see and enjoy and learn and all that kind of stuff so
00:42 well i'm getting a quick drink of water ran upstairs really quick lost my breath okay so um yeah uh also another thing with today we're i'm trying a new setup
00:55 so um we're actually we're kind of a new stream set up so it'll be interesting hopefully it goes smoothly i'm a little nervous about it but um you know always testing out new things so um but yeah cool it looks like from the chat room that everyone can hear us well
01:10 and um yeah davide why don't you tell us a little bit about yourself hi guys hello everybody davide here uh well thanks for joe um for inviting me here first of all and uh
01:23 well i did is that a title master weaver it is now it's yours put it on your business card oh think about it wow anyway um be like a certification
01:36 we should have a i'm a master weaver i should have like a test wow that's intense i don't know if i can introduce myself as a master wig [Laughter]
01:50 it was i i was not trained as a designer in my you know in my education i'm i'm actually a musician uh i have a conservatory degree and which still it's close to our in general you get exposed to a lot of
02:06 uh very beautiful things actually so and after that what happened i i started to uh build a website for myself like pretty much the 95 percent of we
02:19 rocket paper users i'm guessing and from there on i really started to enjoying it and uh little by little uh more tools were brought to us like you know uh foundation total cms and stuff and i got and i started to really get
02:32 into it you know and uh and i was starting to doing things for my friends and and people started to you know get in touch with me because they like the final product and they
02:45 wanted something similar for themselves and like in years it really became now my principal job honestly i'm always uh when people ask what you do i i have no idea what to answer
02:58 right well depending on the occasion i guess you know even an odds date numbers i don't know but and uh so yeah i'm doing uh both things now i really enjoy
03:12 playing music i really enjoy designing and uh that's pretty much it actually so how did you get into rapidweaver um well i started to play with
03:24 what was its name uh ipage iweb whatever iweb yeah iweb because it was still supported at the time and well that was very limited you know yeah so yeah i started to look for something
03:39 else i never liked wordpress uh the the way it's done the way uh i don't know it's just personal i never liked it and and actually i tried different apps and i got into rapidweaver
03:51 saw a lot of different stocks that could you know that could be uh easily editable and personalized each situation and so that's how i actually got interrupted where it was the most convincing app
04:04 of them all i think at the uh at the time and still now i think and uh especially now i'm using as you know i heavily use your stocks because and and the reason why i do that it's
04:17 because i do think they are the most flexible out there you know many others you get the stock and you use it for that specific occasion and uh
04:30 and if you're lucky fits your design and but i i think all your stats joe are are really flexible and they're very you know um adaptable to any design any website you
04:43 you do with them so cool thank you that's awesome um so kind of fast forwarding you know until i don't know six months ago or so i remember chatting with you and you were like hey joe you know i'm really loving foundation six
04:56 and um i think i want to start a little bit of a little side project and uh what was that side project davide yeah that side probably was foundation box yes that that's an interesting story
05:09 because i thought about it uh even during the foundation one era but um i don't know you know as you know foundation one still had limits you know it was not that
05:23 uh like really as powerful as it is foundation 6 than you uh so i thought about it and then i thought about that the amount of work i had to put in and uh the final result was probably not something that i
05:36 would feel comfortable selling you know and so at the end at that time he kind of died out that that idea and then i started to use foundation six and i was like wow this is awesome you and i was like wow this is awesome you know and
05:51 so so this is so that kind of gave me like the that idea again and the more i used it the more i saw its potential because you know now it's so flexible you can do pretty much everything with it and of
06:04 course there are a few case scenario where it's it's not enough obviously but there we have other stocks and anyway so that's what we're chatting about if you remember and and i had a lot of doubts i i don't
06:16 know do you think people would be interested in it and then because i do think a project file has so much more potential than a theme by itself yeah a theme it's a theme i
06:28 mean sure i mean it's very fast and easy to use but as soon either you like its appearance and the way it is or you don't use it
06:43 you know and yeah a project file you can i mean you have that if you just start using it and just edit the content that's totally fine totally possible but if you then want to
06:57 you know change details and or colors or fonts or anything it's really flexible you can go down to each detail of every page and it's fast because everything centralized in the site style and or in swatches
07:10 stuff that control i don't know paddings or round corners or anything colors it really doesn't take much time to edit yep yeah i mean because your project files because you're like oh i like this
07:23 section or maybe i i really want to use this banner from this from this project file in this other site right i mean if they're very compartmentalized or componentized right so you can like really take those particular layouts or
07:36 individual components within a project you don't necessarily you're not like you know like you said with themes where you know you're pretty much stuck with what the theme designer wanted right i mean there's obviously some settings but
07:49 like obviously they're very limited it's like you can change the color or the header size or maybe the font or you know the image that's used in the banner but that was like it right you know you know you didn't have full freedom of well i i don't like the sidebar in this
08:03 theme so i just want to delete it and build my own or or i i want to completely get rid of the banner or swap out the menu system because i want to use a different menu you can't right
08:15 you you are shoehorned into um exactly what that theme developer or designer wanted you to have and that's it exactly so that's why you know i think your stuff is obviously
08:28 beautiful um and i like that you have uh two versions of each project you know so you have the foundation six only version and then you have foundation six and total cms so that people can kind of get a variety and and also learn how to use total cms
08:41 and integrate that into the websites right so um really really cool stuff um if you guys haven't checked it out what's the url uh it's foundationbox.studio
08:53 foundationbox.studio sweet um hey curious anyone in the chat room um that's chatting right now um have you purchased any of the the the projects from uh from davide from foundation box and uh do you like them let
09:07 the people in the chat room know um and i will put a link in the chat so everyone can have that um actually that was uh there was something that came up along the way the
09:20 light and pro version of each project at the beginning i was gonna do only the only the pro version you know like integrating total cms in each image project then i i thought about it and there's actually a few people that um
09:34 there's actually a few people that um want to go to a project file such as the one that you find on foundation box but maybe i don't know they they really want to keep it local and they they are the only ones that are going to edit the product i mean
09:48 it's such a small project that maybe a light version was uh was needed and especially for people that maybe they especially for people that maybe they just got foundation six and they want to just check out how
10:02 everything and proper practices and what so on uh foundation although i if i had to say you know that the difference the power of the the pro version [Music] [Music]
10:15 it's it's just astonishing if you if you use total cms or if you're interested in a cms solution and and i don't know if you don't know what the cms solution is
10:27 basically you can edit your website without even opening rapidweaver it's just so powerful the pro version and you know everything is so automated uh that
10:41 just by feeling the admin area form and we're gonna talk about admin areas later um but just feeling the form which already makes your website ready to go in
10:54 honestly a couple of i don't want to say a couple of minutes because it's not realistic but let's say let's say half an hour let's say half an hour to completely have your images content and and
11:07 all your website ready and then of course if you want to edit stuff some stuff there will be still some editing needed so you open rocket weaver you fix those and you're
11:20 pretty much done yeah totally so you you're working you're working on a new project file right now right yes i am actually almost ready i think it's uh it's gonna shift at the
11:35 weekend nice wanna see it yeah yeah let's let's pop in i want you to share your screen and we can uh we can do a little tour everyone you're getting the world premiere what's it what's it called it's called nero nero
11:49 excellent oh a couple people are popping in saying that they catch pro and uh pharaoh pro and they they all love it and they uh dominic says he used a pharaoh pro to learn how to build a great admin area
12:02 awesome what did he use a fair pharaoh pro a faro okay okay yeah that's a that's a actually pharaoh was the first was the first team
12:15 and i'm really happy with it it uses those wide images like full screen all the time space and it was inspired to the pharaoh islands which is an island basically
12:27 between england and iceland you know oh okay it's such a which is actually all the images in that website are part of that island and i was so inspired by it it's such a
12:41 it has such a beautiful prehistoric look almost you know it's just awesome and so the site is kind of dedicated to that and it takes inspiration of those wide big spaces and
12:53 yeah so it's pretty cool and that admin area specifically it's not an error that i've been using for for a long time like that way of subdividing pages blog portfolios
13:06 you know and after that uh with the avenue catch and mirror too i started to implement this new concept of admin area uh that uses a lot of iframes to load that uses a lot of iframes to load different pages
13:19 and the reason for that actually now that we're gonna check out nero you go can you see it
13:37 great thank you so this is uh this is the the landing the landing screen uh we have a vertical menu that stays there
13:53 title subtitle call to action button and there's some parallax effect in the so when you scroll down you have this about eyes and then you have a straight away your
14:08 blog this comes directly from total cms so uh if you keep blogging if you keep uploading uh blogs to your uh to your blog those shoe uh blog posts will just
14:21 automatically update and show you the latest ones so i mean the entire concept of foundation box are kind of automated website where i i understand how painful it is sometime to
14:35 maintain website so that's what i'm saying like the pro version really is so powerful you just upload your posts and it's done the page automatically shows the client
14:48 that the the users the latest things the latest news and what so on uh obviously if you click on it you go to the blog post too um this is another area also managed by total cms this is
15:03 more a portfolio portfolio area this is one post this is one big post this is another one big post and once again uh you can you can just upload different posts i
15:15 think this section has a limit to show up to four posts uh if you can if you just upload new ones they will show up following this pattern so it never
15:30 and uh last area that has a service on the home page you can just list your services here newsletter sign up footer and then we have and this is just
15:43 the homepage obviously this is a i like to give ideas on how to use different layouts within the same the same project file so here's like a simple list clean beautiful nice nice
15:56 fonts and uh so you can use it like to i don't know change the entire project file to your own you know needs business or your clients
16:09 business of course some nice quotes other lists actually this is all important information that you might want to know uh about this team you know the basic setup obviously you need rapidweaver
16:22 and and stocks necessary stocks obviously foundation and i'm listing ben this is interesting i'm missing pan as a as an as a necessary stock because i'm not going to open the rapidweaver
16:35 project right now but pen if you don't know pen it's it's a free stocks by joe by weaver space and it helps me a lot cleaning the the the edit the edit mode
16:48 of the project so so in the edit mode you will you will see a pen that includes those two things and said like text area uh quotes area uh text there so it's very easy
17:02 even in in the edit mode to to check out to move around the project file and easily edit the section that you what else optional style i'm actually
17:15 not using moving box i'm going to take this away from now the power lock stock yes it's what gives that very nice parallax effect at the at the and then with narrow mirror pro of
17:30 course we need total cms and a few other stocks from big white duck which is um limelight and and section pro and i'm using those two stocks to
17:43 create that very interesting um you can check out the admin area if so you you're going to see the admin area is very different from what you're used to
17:57 uh within rapid weaver it's a we have these vertical bar still but all the particular thing about this um this admin area is that everything that is in this section
18:10 it's not actually there it's loaded by iframes so by clicking let's say the home page if i want to edit the home page this area it's not in that page the
18:23 knife frame that links to another page which is obviously inside the rapidweaver project but it's it gives you like this fluid uh walk through the you know the admin area
18:36 that the pages do not need to load they are already loaded and they just get shown it's it's very
18:54 area
19:09 yeah pretty cool and for instance um this is the the home page on the area so what you were seeing
19:22 here this is all controlled by the admin area so let's say you get this project you so let's say you get this project you downloaded your you upload it on your server and everything you have to do is go to the admin area change the title
19:35 ad background image if you want a paragraph sure if you notice there's no paragraph down here there's just the the header and the and the and the sub header which is respectively
19:48 h1 and h2 um there's a paragraph there's that button that i can easily just turn it off actually no button anymore that's it i mean there are so
20:02 many things like this one it's so fast so easy uh the about section here you complete the post you want to show in that blog area right there uh
20:16 tutorial same thing [Music] the blog the the services area where you the blog the the services area where you can upload the you know it's very easy you honestly do not even have to open rapidweaver
20:31 and if you notice there's uh the title of the tab also gets its information from the h1 and h2 so whatever you enter right at the top of this page like
20:44 mirror project file for rapidweaver this information is also going to be transferred to the um to the top so there's some basic seo obviously if you're serious about that i really recommend to get
20:59 power up your seo but already as a default the the project file comes with already
21:18 sweet so um for some reason when you were screen sharing people couldn't hear me talk so not not sure what was going on there but all something to debug for the future
21:31 thanks everyone sorry about that um so yeah that is an awesome looking project um what davide could they hear me talk yeah they could hear you it was just me that they couldn't hear
21:49 [Laughter] oh by the way everyone i you know i was oh by the way everyone i you know i was gonna ship a new stack this week but davide said it was complete crap and then i wasn't able to ship it so i i have to i have to delay the launch once again i never said
22:04 i never said that [Laughter] uh funny just uh funny just inside joke from the hangout so you got to go to hangouts everyone on fridays so
22:16 you can see all these cool inside jokes um yeah a lot of people in the chat saying that they love it uh a couple people um were asking if they needed foundation six so yes so davide i guess we'll back up and explain what a project file is right
22:31 oh man yeah of course i i mean i overview the most important information all those themes everything that you find on foundation box let me open it condition box
22:44 so everything that you find here it's made for foundation six so all the those are the the three first project files that were published all of them they come in uh
22:58 those are all project files as you mentioned joe it's so a project file is a rapid weaver uh file that you can use to make websites i'm guessing you know and so that's why you
23:11 are getting from foundation box you get the project file you open the project file right and the entire job is already done for you actually the website what you are seeing on the like on the live preview let's
23:27 so what you are seeing right here is what you get you get the complete file with all the layouts effects everything content to you also get the cms data
23:39 folder that you can just upload on your on your server and all these images and content will be there of course you're not you're probably not of course you're not you're probably not gonna use it but
23:52 it's it's a really good starting point to start editing your own website you know with without all these information with without all these information without all the images without all the text it would look kind of an empty project so i understand how that
24:05 that can be difficult so you get that too yeah so um everything you find on this website you know it's uh completely built with foundation six so only with foundation six actually
24:18 so only with foundation six actually there is a version uh let's say let's get let's start each project file coming true version a
24:32 light version and a pro version the the lite version uses exclusively foundation six stacks so if you do not have any other stock but foundation six this will work
24:46 okay and obviously you will not get the the blog feature or or the portfolio feature that you can manage everything without even opening rapidweaver to do that you need a cms which i use
25:00 to do that you need a cms which i use total cms as you know and that's what you get in the pro version so you get the full admin area and that's what i'm saying that's why i'm saying like honestly the
25:13 pro version obliterates the lite version it's and if you get the pro version you also get the light version you know so but i'm sure that once you try the pro it's really hard to go back you know
25:27 everything is so it's so thought about you know and the i hope that kind of explained what what a project file is yeah
25:40 that was a good explanation yep yeah yeah uh so martin asked a question that some people tried to answer but he was like so he's a budding web designer and um he was wondering like if you were to pick one project for him to start with davide
25:53 which which one would you recommend i know that's hard that's like asking a parent who's your favorite child right but you know um [Music] is this going to be his first foundation
26:05 is this going to be his first foundation 6 project um i don't know it could be uh marin recommended uh avenue or catch he thought those were both good places to start in his opinion yeah i would say so
26:18 actually you know avenue you know catch catch can get tricky because catch was born as a one-page website and then evolved to okay let's also have a blog and let's also have it
26:32 you know so uh it has some uh settings that might not be obvious to like a a newbie let's say i i would suggest avenue avenue it's
26:46 the classic website it's really like uh his layouts the way the menu works i think that could be a good starting point for anyone who just jumps into foundation total cms and what's on
27:00 actually this new nero uh network project file will also be a very good starting point it also does have that a part of the vertical menu everything else it's pretty uh
27:12 you know it does have the structure of a very common website cool cool um so you know last week i talked a lot about how imagery is very important and obviously in all your project files you
27:25 you obviously uh use beautiful imagery as where as well um where where do you find your images or where do you get the inspiration for that um
27:38 well first of all each project file uh is born from an idea from a concept or from something that i really want to uh like let's say pharaoh as a as i was
27:52 telling you before yep uh obviously like why for all i have no idea i just like so and i i and i saw a couple of beautiful image images and i thought wow that that's an
28:06 incredible place i think it would look and and i actually tried to mock up a website that i would do for that specific uh that i would do for that specific uh let's say for the faroe island if i
28:18 if the faroe island would contact me and wanted a website for their island that's probably where i would go and of course then that's the first step okay what follows is me trying to be
28:31 what follows is me trying to be realistic and and make and i know that this is a project that people are going to use for their own website are going to use for their own website and their
28:44 own clients so okay that was the original idea and then i started to move it over to um make sure that that's a good product that it's a product that people can actually use
28:58 if you see all the admin area actually in the preview if you uh in the preview of each project you can totally go through the admin area of each project you know the admin area is usually the access to the admin area is usually in
29:11 the footer so check there in every theme you can just click on the on the lock button and you get redirected to the admin area where you can just sniff around and see
29:24 see this is uh as i was telling you this is completely different admin area idea you know more classical if you want to um so yeah just walk around
29:37 and if you want to go go ahead change it the system will not let you save your changes so yeah check it out walk around the admin area see if you look if you look something you would do and and if you find inspiration just go
29:50 ahead and yeah use it cool so that's another interesting thing but images uh going back to the images um question i use a lot on splash question i use a lot on splash
30:03 nice unsplash i think it's one of the best uh which actually comes integrated within rapidweaver you can easily just drag and drop yeah you can has built-in search you could search and just drag it straight onto your page it's pretty awesome
30:17 yeah i think it's a good one honestly there are so many great pictures compared to other services like that other free services like that i think that yeah it's one of the best ones and
30:32 obviously be careful like try to keep your if you walk through each one of my website and and joe joe kind of reviewed that last week uh if you see all the all those images kind of follow the same
30:46 i want to say color pattern or they've been blend together well yes so yeah just try to have some common sense peter is asking um have you ever thought
30:59 about doing projects focused on specific use cases such as a restaurant or you know online retail or non-profit stuff like that okay the reason why i am
31:15 i'm still not doing that is that i think it would probably have a a very different price range yes you know and uh doing something so specific would
31:29 would require and you know me i'm very picky and if i do it i will probably do it properly and i would really uh go and talk with restaurant owners and see uh what they
31:42 actually need and what they do not necessarily need what should be the most important thing i mean there are there's some study involved in the entire thing and uh and the price
31:55 range would probably be much higher and uh very specific so if you do have a restaurant and you want a project file that's where you go but yeah still i i wanted to start with more
32:11 multi-purpose and more uh general you know uh to see it also think this is the first time i actually doing something for rapping weaver user so i honestly had no idea what i was going
32:24 you know to what's the response you have do you like it do you not like it yeah you know i didn't know anything about this so i think this is a good starting point i do have ideas for
32:36 what follows um i think i would focus more in features actually you know if you have suggestions there's i think there's a feedback area
32:50 back i'm not sure you know i'm not sure this is the link to that page actually there you go
33:03 so if you want to if you wanna let me copy this link if you want to give me suggestions on what to do on what you would like to see in the next
33:19 uh let me let me send this link to you joe i i put it in the chat box already oh great already and so if you want to give me ideas or interesting thing that you want to see on foundation box just make sure
33:33 you fill that form send send it to me and i will read it i swear to god i'll read it and the ones that got to me they really want to see like more features like let's say a membership
33:46 area or or i don't know some or or i don't know some interesting anime like so maybe something that i'm interested in doing especially when total cms should get
33:59 released is uh and just keep pushing sorry yeah and uh it would be probably something like uh yeah
34:14 membership area very complex and useful with real case scenario membership areas or even you know i got a kick out of even you know i got a kick out of e-commerce lately and you know i think i see the potential
34:28 that total cms2 has and i think i'll probably do some e-commerce uh admin area or website are more focused in the e-commerce than anything like
34:41 yeah features i'll probably do features before specific case scenarios yep yeah i totally get it i mean if you're going to be developing a project file that's specific for let's say a restaurant right your market for that is
34:54 so niche that you're going to have to charge a much higher price right and um yeah i mean essentially you're building a pre-made website for someone so um the price should be high for that as
35:06 well you know i mean it's you know because you are shoehorning into a particular niche um so yeah um that is uh definitely a valid point i agree with that 100 percent
35:19 yeah you know how many people buy a multi-purpose website no it can be it's so flexible especially foundation six yeah honestly good job joe there it's it's so flexible
35:31 yeah you can buy it and and use it for like eight different websites no problem you eight different websites no problem you know you can change and edit and and edit the look on things in really minutes so yeah
35:44 a very specific case scenario would cool so um we were you you said you got a lot from last week you got quite a few people sending you some messages about one of your
35:57 designs um and we talked maybe before and we um and we talked maybe before and we could chat a little bit about about that as you know last week joe showed up a few websites
36:11 and after the live stream i received a few messages saying uh about this website about this travel agency website like people are commenting wow i would like to know more how do you do the the booking thing
36:27 how do you what's behind this and so yeah i think since there's some requests over it you know it could be interesting going a little deeper on this website maybe sure yeah i think that'd be fun yeah
36:40 so i think you just showed a few things obviously because you know you were showing off like a lot of different website this is a travel agency and unfortunately for them it's not the best period for for
36:52 having a travel agency and uh but there you go you know uh they're doing pretty pretty well considering the moment you know and uh so yeah nice imagery that's very important you have to catch people's eye
37:07 you know and joe went over and over that last last wednesday and try to be clear clean um so i went for these uh big title uh what they do
37:20 it's very clear since the beginning uh after after the first landing zone let's say um there are the three main thing that this website does so they sell packages
37:32 already made packages they sell uh those are the destination because a big part of the website is to create your own uh your own trip by yourself online
37:48 yeah of places and this is actually the button the the area where it brings you to the create area so they can actually create their own website and we can go through that
38:01 it's pretty fun i like how that came out yeah um some text that explains it once again um some text that explains it once again what they do what how to travel safe
38:17 packages showcase you know this is done actually with the uh horizon you know very good for show horizontal horizontal uh content which
38:29 page is that are you sharing your screen oh am i not no you're not no oh man sorry i posted the url in the chat for everyone to have a look though
38:41 sorry here it comes can you see it now there we go oh too bad okay yeah really fast nice imagery um then we have the three different areas packages destinations and create your
38:54 own trip some text this is a very nice um you know horizontal uh display of the different packages they have click on it and go to that page review
39:08 is very important don't ever forget about reviews because this is actually a new company i don't think people will actually know them they've done a few trips already but
39:23 yeah be be sure that on the on the on the page there are some testimonials some reviews about your business it's very important uh it actually does that has a name joy
39:35 it sleeps in my mind uh crowd how would you call it oh um yeah it's uh social um yeah what is that called the i'm drawing a blank now that you asked me uh yeah
39:48 yeah it's basically crowd acceptance right i mean it's our social testimonial or ah no that's not it exactly yes ah no that's not it exactly yes once again the destination so you can
40:02 see a little bit of what you have so i'll just keep the entire thing i think the most interesting part of the website and and what people were asking for it's actually the create your own trip
40:15 you know so once again uh attractive imagery and this is a form this is all built with foundation six forums all built with foundation six forums there's
40:28 a heavy and dangerous usage of pie [Laughter] and some dewbox now some and some dewbox now some what's the
40:42 was pretty much made for for because of the process of building this form is me getting contact to joe and say hey this doesn't work how do i
40:58 so you completely rewrite peekaboo for this website thank you jeff and uh so yeah basically the interesting part of all of this
41:10 is that you have a form here and i wanted to be able to uh keep showing the uh the users this kind of resume of their entire booking like keep and keep these right here
41:23 while the while the form events advanced so if you see we can check uh those are all the different steps of the forms and uh starting from the the main one you can pick like what kind of traveling
41:35 the family couple with friends and as you see it while i feel this form the information gets updated right here and let's say true adults
41:50 two kids and let's say we want to go this by second and this was the tricky part so if you see if i if i change the number of days
42:05 of this website like the price changes you know so so that's that was like very interesting to build and i definitely used pi for it if if you are interested in it if you're interested in moving information out of your form
42:20 dynamically and at that second somewhere else on your page check out pi it's a great stock i really enjoyed using it and it really gave me a lot of power at the beginning in the in the developing process
42:33 of these this website i was not really sure i could have done it so i was ready to implement some other services like booking services you know and those can get pretty expensive pretty soon
42:47 and so i'm really happy i got here so the way this works is that the my client the the office of the of the travel agency can even
43:02 uh update the price of of a single day like obviously it's this is an estimated the the this number is not the definitive number obviously but it gives you an idea how
43:15 much it will cost you that vacation of 15 days with the family and what's on you know so it's pretty interesting it also changes by changing the stars of the hotel let's say
43:29 this is a three-star i want a four-star and you see the price changes and the price changes again so everything all of this is math done by pi behind the scene and everything that ties
43:43 calculate gets thrown in in the sidebar so you always have under control uh the entire information of your of your trip well i'm being expensive i'm doing hotel booktube
43:58 okay in this bar and actually you know what i already have an update for this page and because this is not using
44:10 total cms right here i uh my original idea was to you know they update the let's say they they have a new destination they they put that destination into
44:25 total cms but in order for that destination to show up in this list this is just a manual list things that i put manually in uh i would have to update the website uh i would have to update the website
44:40 enter that specific uh that specific destination and upload the website now i did that because i was sure like i talked with them and i was sure they were not going to add
44:52 destinations and so i said okay a manual a manual thing can be done but ideally think about how cool it would be if you if the client could just you know add a new destination in the total into total cms and it
45:07 automatically show up here inside a form so that's possible i've already done it and i'm probably gonna ship it pretty soon instead of this layout right here and so here they just uh
45:21 select the where they want to go let's say cancun that awesome here and koba and as you see as i select those stuff everything gets
45:33 reported here on the side it's pretty pretty pretty cool extra let's say sure i won flight tickets
45:46 and i want to rent a car too there they actually let's do this yeah sure
45:58 this is just a test you can magically redirect it to the
46:18 thank you page page exactly and i want to show you also the the email that i got
46:34 because that's another cool thing you can do with foundation form if you have the email stacks always buy weird space and you can design your email inside the
46:47 email stocks and paste that code that email sucks give you inside the foundation form and it works beautifully
47:03 there you go here it is this is the email that i just received from this from this submission so it's branded max
47:16 mexico sumizura hi davide here's a small text gives me all the details of my of my of the trip that i just created you know my 15 days day everything everything will tell boutique
47:29 choo choo all the destination that i want to visit all my extras and gives me uh the price range okay so this is pretty awesome
47:42 you know it's uh the for the for the final user for the my clients client clients you know this is a great experience they go through the these very fun create your own trip they
47:55 select the destination they select when they want to go they select the family and they they hit sign they and they get the email it's it's pretty well done i really like the final result this travel agency is pretty happy with
48:08 it even in this uh very hard business right now because it right now it's a very it's not that easy to travel as you know uh that they are travel as you know uh that they are having quite enough success
48:25 sweet is everyone just blow i think everyone's just blown away i mean the use of pie in that form is pretty magical right i mean yeah
48:38 um even when i see that i go wow really you built that with foundation forms like that's just too cool you know um yeah i mean it even blows me away that you're able to do that you know i love it when i you know a lot of times i say i make the bricks
48:50 a lot of times i say i make the bricks you guys make the masterpieces with the buildings and i love it when i just see you know someone like yourself that can take you know things that i've built and just make a complete masterpiece um from that it makes me happy so thank
49:05 you for sharing i really appreciate that and as marin says you make it look too simple [Laughter] well trust me the developer the well trust me the developer the developing of that form was not easy at all
49:19 that's a little complex i won't even show you that the rocket weaver file i mean there there are some really ugly codes within pi and and i have to thank joe for helping me out on that too obviously yeah
49:34 yep ah so uh oh i had nothing i was gonna bring up and then my old age it's popped in out of my head okay well whatever you wanna i think you mentioned you wanted to see like
49:46 to have some idea on admin areas or something yeah i mean yeah just um so we did get a question just like kind of like a you know you don't need to go into specifics about what stacks use or whatever but like just like when you approach an admin just like when you approach an admin
49:59 area you know for total everyone we're you know for total everyone we're talking about total cms right so like when you go to approach an admin area what is your thinking like you know do you like to do everything in all one big
50:12 page and tabs or uh you know that little iframe trick that we've done is that kind of like what you think is that the new hot sauce or so what is your approach for admin areas so what is your approach for admin areas
50:27 um well the first approach it's even i i think it's even before building it you have to make sure i mean the power the total cms foundation rapid weaver name it gives us is
50:41 personalization you know you can really build an admin area specifically for your client yeah and that tells something you know that that that means that you have to re
50:53 i mean you have to check does your client does all the work himself do they have an office is is there a corporation um who's gonna use the admin area at the end of the day that's the
51:05 question you have to answer and because sometimes it's an office sometimes it's the same guy that does everything sometimes it's you know so make sure you know who's gonna use it and once you know you you already have
51:17 okay it's an office great there's probably someone paid to take care of blog posts of uh the correct information on the page the correct picture on the page
51:31 and what's on i think it's very important always to know your client because that's not and not just for the unknown that's not and not just for the unknown page obviously yeah that kind of drives the design of the entire project
51:43 but i think it's very important in the admin let's take the case let's say um it's uh this guy runs a one-man show you know it's only by himself
51:56 so why give him so many editable stuff and he can edit the seo and he can edit the the old images seo and he can edit the the old images and all the text throughout the website all the text throughout the website buttons and links included men
52:11 like it's insane he's gonna get lost he's a hundred percent going to get lost and so that's that's one one thought to keep in mind absolutely
52:24 and uh yeah once once you're sure of your type of client um yeah i i do like this new uh iframe
52:36 kind of admin area and what i like about it it's that fluidness it's just smooth uh once again like go on uh the avenue project file for instance avenue uses
52:50 uh exactly that that that same that same structure of the admin area and you can see it from project file from the preview go through the admin area try to go through each it's just so
53:03 fast it's fluid you click you see you click you sit and that's something that i really like especially because people don't really want to spend time on their admin area i mean it's fine
53:15 they're happy to have it but it's still something they don't really want to do it you know so offer a great experience and it's also beautiful to see yeah this is probably my biggest suggestion to you
53:30 uh it's don't leave the admin area as the last thing you do as whatever don't do that that don't do that that it happened to each one of us at some point in our life you know we get something
53:43 we really want but then it's difficult to use uh if you don't use it for a while you forget how to use how to use it you know many of these things like make sure your admin area is a pleasant place
53:59 to to visit and to edit and to use the usability of the administrator is essential you know you make sure your clients actually use it actually update your website
54:12 and and and keep it alive you know sometimes it happened to me quite a few times and it obviously still happens you know but my i have to say much less than before
54:25 if i go to visit one of my previous sites i mean the client messed it up but honestly there are like out of proportion pictures there are in no i i wanted to make sure
54:39 that my client doesn't matter how they will use the no matter how they would use the admin area the website would still look good you know and i i think i'm going to the right direction and
54:53 just just by looking at them now you know these uh these travel agency has already almost a year now and still looking pretty good and they met all the information they manage everything so that tells me
55:08 that uh there's a good job done in in the admin area obviously there's a good job done in the entire website but yeah the admin area is what they use my client uses
55:21 and they i mean through the admin area they could potentially mess up the website i don't want that so yeah keep that in i don't want that so yeah keep that in mind all the time 100 so um another thing i i like how you said earlier
55:33 we you know one of the definitely one of the features of total cms is you can like design and brand the admin area right um so i historically i've seen two different interesting implementations the obvious one is
55:45 branding the admin area for your customer right putting their logo using their color using the same color scheme as their site design right another thing i've seen
55:58 used a couple by a couple other people um is they actually brand it for their web is they actually brand it for their web design business so it would be you know you know polaroid studios right so you know the whole admin area is branded as hilaro studio so it's like
56:11 you're in hilaro studio cms right um and then you know to go a little further with that they even like have they'll integrate like a little chat widget so that your customers could talk to you davide right and stuff like that um and all of that's in the admin area so
56:25 you know that's an interesting you know concept as well in in terms of if you want a brand create the hilaro studios you know cms you could brand it that way um you know so
56:37 yeah um i i think both are are very good and very interesting um i definitely think the customer would enjoy having their own branded you know admin area as well you know that you log in and they just see
56:50 this is it looks it's made for them you know it totally looks it totally looks legit and quality and like you like you've made something custom just for them because you have
57:02 uh-huh right absolutely it's not smoke and mirrors you have made something custom just for them right so um so yeah cool um so i saved one story that i i
57:15 on purpose didn't talk about earlier on and i'm gonna give you a little sneak on it and um so when david was doing these and um so when david was doing these projects he had uh he made a little personal project of himself to
57:27 try to only use foundation six stacks right and um and i think uh you know he's told and um and i think uh you know he's told me before that um it was definitely you know a great learning experience and something that he's very glad he did
57:40 and the reason i tell this is because he's actually going to be giving a talk at the conference next week um about um you know talking about that a little bit so you know how to get the most out of the foundation's six stacks and you know why he did that um why don't
57:54 you give a little little chat about some of your feelings around sure i mean as you said a foundation box
58:06 uh forced me to just go full only in with foundation six and uh you know we all have been using other stocks and we all have been using other stocks and it's natural and that's how it should be you know there are so many of them and but
58:22 you know making a business out of you know a project file for foundation six you know you have to yeah yeah so i had to remove all those stocks and that i i used for years
58:37 and in years and it was more a process of adapting actually because and realizing at some point that oh my god i don't need other stocks like why why do i need it you know
58:50 yeah there's a swatch there watch for anything and so that was a great realization and that gave me a lot of you know motivation to keep going and and to actually
59:04 release foundation box finally awesome and yeah so the talk about uh joe and i were talking and he said why don't you give a talk about that on on weaver's space conference
59:16 i thought well that's cool and the so what we're gonna do in in the conference i'm going to uh build uh a few live uh a few sections that i think like some people actually got in contact with me
59:29 and if you have ideas go on the foundation box space in weaver space community in the word space community and there's a post no actually oh is it in the general i think it's in general i sent out an
59:42 email to it was the foundation six um you know challenge um you know i sent out an email last week i believe it was uh with links to that and maybe i'll go into the community i'll pin that to the top
59:54 um so that it's you can easily find that um i'm not sure if it was in the foundation six space or general i'm not sure it could have been in one of those but i i all i will today after this live stream i'll go and i'll pin that to the top so that easily people can easily find
60:06 so that easily people can easily find that so what's this foundation challenge it's i'm just challenging myself to build stuff just by using foundation 6. so if you have a cool layout
60:19 cool something something that attracts your attention on the web just post a link there i'll go through it and i'll and i'll make it happen uh obviously
60:33 within possibility yeah i don't do magic but uh yeah for now i think i'm gonna do a mega menu like someone posted a ralph lauren uh website um was asking for
60:47 uh some cool effect that the the website has the idea was cool but the way the developer realized that it was not it's not really good and so i don't think i'm gonna
60:59 spend time doing that yeah that's it so but the menu the the ralph lauren menu is really cool it has this huge space so i'll probably do that one i'll also take a hint from chris powers he
61:14 uh he he asked if it's possible to have uh like some titles uh have an underline that appear from the left on over so i'll do that cool and if you have other ideas
61:27 please go ahead post it there i'll i'll make my i'll do my best sweet and if you guys don't have tickets yet you can head over to summit.weavers.space still get your tickets um until it starts next
61:40 friday um so friday to sunday three days 100 virtual you can enjoy it from the comfort of your sofa or your home or your office or whatever um it's all done over zoom um and we have a great time so hopefully we'll see you guys there
61:53 um davide thank you very much for coming today i really loved it i had a great time and um i i think everyone else did it was a very chattery uh chat room over there and everyone had lots of comments and everyone loved it so
62:07 thank you very much i appreciate it awesome it was very fun thanks let's do it again and everybody make sure you go check out foundation box awesome stuff cool take care everyone we awesome stuff cool take care everyone we will uh hopefully we'll see some of you on friday at the hangout