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howdy everybody excellent how's everyone doing
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today so wait for the chat let's see get some confirmation on audio and visuals I
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got a ton of apps open let me go ahead and quit all of
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these don't need all these uh all these things open here
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okay yeah we'll we'll stick with that set here we go cool okay oh there's the chat finally
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my chat popped up took me took a while Mr Cole Dr Bob
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David Matias excellent Jeff man we got uh we have a record
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number of people watching today wonder why I wonder why so cool um exciting day
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as I'm sure all of you know right um we got a lot of exciting stuff to talk about
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today um and yeah so obviously uh the version uh you're going to be seeing uh
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Stacks beta 28 uh today okay um and yeah it's exciting
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it's got a lot of really cool features it is not um feature complete obviously yet but um you'll see today of all the
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awesome stuff now um hopefully you saw inside the
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email that um Isaiah answered a bunch of questions
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that were posted on the community um I'm actually uh let me bring that up really quick I'm going to use that as my my
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notes actually today uh because uh yeah he did a good job um you kind of organizing all the questions and whatnot
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so uh that was nice and he provided a bunch of answers I'll try to elaborate and give some of my opinions about those
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an some some of those things as well um but it is great to see the answers from the man himself so that uh yeah
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there's no questions or uh you know concerns about what the official
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responses are right all right let me bring up here it
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is right um I think what we're going to do today um I think I'm going to start
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off with a tour okay um we'll start off with a tour of stacks um kind of show
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you what the app is what it does maybe I can field some questions here or there through throughout and then um after the
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tour um I'll bring up the all the questions that were asked and we can talk and answer anything that maybe I
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didn't cover in the tour okay um so hopefully that sounds like a
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plan um yes Stephen everything is recorded um yep all my live streams are on YouTube so if you ever miss any of my
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live streams um make sure you check them out um almost every week okay I I do
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miss occasionally but there is you know over 40 per year so um there are over
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400 live streams alone on top of my 600 or so normal videos that I have so yeah
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we have a lot of videos on my YouTube channel okay so make sure you check those out excellent and for those of you this
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is your first live stream welcome thank you very much for joining make sure you subscribe and all that jazz so we can uh
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spread the word and YouTube algorithms catch us more and more and uh maybe post something in the comments too cuz apparently that helps
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so there we go okay um so without further Ado you guys are aren't here to see my beautiful face right we want to
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look at Stacks so um let's go ahead and share my screen
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here okay and uh so there we go okay so here are Stacks you'll see that it is uh
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version 6 beta 28 that uh just got shipped last night okay
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okay do your live streams have searchable transcripts sure yes Danny go to Stacks guru.com and you can search
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through all of my videos thank you to Chris Powers so uh everyone thank Chris
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for that awesome resource um he basically takes all of the the streams uploads them into Stacks Guru with
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transcripts that are 100% searchable so pretty slick so thanks Chris for that
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um as I said uh you don't you don't have beta 28 and this this is not released um
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I have beta 28 okay um so as you see um yes will you guys getting this we'll
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we'll answer those questions later okay um first we want to do a tour yes everybody has beta 10 that it
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was the last publicly available release I have beta 28 okay all right um let's
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go ahead and uh let's create a new
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project all right so um now if you've seen some of my past live streams I
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remember I I tricked some of you guys in that um I used uh Stacks during the entire live stream and didn't really say
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it right so um here I'll say it at the beginning we're this entire live stream is going to be using uh stack app okay
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so as you notice when you create a new project the window opens up and hopefully the UI looks pretty familiar
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right it should feel at home um it's a very similar user interface um to yeah to what we're using
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and building our sites with today okay um very
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similar uh we have our kind of the pages over here where you can have you know your
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hierarchy of pages um there's some other things we'll we'll go out there's something called layouts which we're
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going to we're not going to talk about right this very second but we'll look we'll talk about layouts in a little bit
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it's one of the new features of stacks okay then we have here our um our add-ons or our actual our Stacks that we
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have uh as you see all of my library groups um that I had from um the stacks
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plugin it's all right here which is cool okay uh we have a new tab in here and
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this is where we can look at themes okay so sta has currently has a couple
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built-in themes as well as we have a foundation theme and I'm working to uh yeah uh upbring us uh reason uh will be
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probably one of the first themes available um for Stacks uh it was a theme that I acquired from Nick Kates um
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so yeah we're I'm going to be re re bringing back um reason which is which is fun and cool as you see very nice
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Theme by Nick Kates um pretty soon it'll be a very nice Theme by Weaver space
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okay so there we go um uh inside here very similar uh you
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know you can see all of your uh various things we have the update window so you can go ahead and you know check for
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updates for Stacks um you know things were all been uh used to before uh there
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is search as well so you can search for I don't know uh picture right okay so
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you can search and all that jazz okay uh obviously right here in the middle is
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our edit edit mode area where we can drag and drop and you know build out our pages
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okay and preview and publish or preview and edit mode
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okay um next up is let's look at the settings panes okay let's just go ahead
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and add in uh we'll just add in site styles for now okay um you notice when when you
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click on a setting or click on a stack all the settings as you would expect show up over here in the panel on
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or the tab on the right okay now let's look at some of these other ones I'm actually going to go from
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right to left in here because it's kind of it kind of makes sense with the workflow for how these Tabs are
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organized the very far tab on the right is your site settings okay so this is
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going to be where we set up you know the title of our website the domain of the website um things like what is the base
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uh the default file name the default extension like for example that the default is HTML we want to make all new
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pages PHP there we go okay uh you can also I mean I think the
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the base file name is index is probably a great default I wouldn't recommend changing that but it's possible okay
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your copyrights and this is where we can set up uh what is our homepage what uh what theme are we using there's actually
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multiple ways of setting a theme um you can either uh change it
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here um you can actually change it in the theme um tab or you can actually go
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ahead and if you go ahead and click double click on a theme um it actually changes it that way so multiple ways to
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change the the base theme okay and then we have our primary layout again um I'm
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not going to talk about layouts right now we're going to just I will just in a little bit okay just kind of give me a
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generic tour right now okay um next up uh the the next pane
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okay here um this is just kind of an info pane right so um if we go ahead and select um any stack um it will you know
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display the info for that here okay um over time we'll probably there'll probably be some more things added here
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like um I know I've filed a bug for like adding the help uh URLs and help links
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and stuff like that um for each stack here so um yeah so this again just kind
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of a way before this used to be information that was like down on the bottom of the the library window now it's over here um in this pane so we
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have a little bit more space to see information about the stacks that we we have in our library
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okay um the next tab is going to be our themes so let's go ahead and switch our theme to Foundation 6 and what you'll
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see here is this is where um all the settings for a theme will be okay so
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like if we go to reason um here's going to be the settings uh what the settings currently look like for reason um this
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is very early stages on reason um and here we see Foundation 6 um I'll talk a
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little bit about Foundation 6 later on but as you see here um Foundation 6 a lot of the site style settings have now
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moved into the theme which is fun and exciting okay so we we'll talk about that the difference in that workflow um
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a little bit later if you guys want so yeah pretty straightforward this just all the various settings that we
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have for our themes uh right here in that pane the next pane is going to be our
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page settings okay so this is settings for our Pages um so we can have our page title um the path for the page the file
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name for the page it's kind of nice that it gives you the preview URL as well as the actual published website URL okay so
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if you quickly want to either copy the link or open the the published web page
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for this page um nice little convenience uh there okay uh whether or not we want a page to be
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published whether or not it wants to show in the navigation um and then down here we can actually override I check
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this I can then o now override the theme settings for this particular page okay
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which is pretty cool okay um so yeah that allows us to you know override settings for and have specific settings
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from a theme for a particular page okay then last one is our stack
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settings pane right so it's basically if you think this goes from like the highest level all the way down to the
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the lowest level right so our site settings then the theme then the page
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and then individual stack settings and obviously just like as any stack um
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obviously we're in Foundation 6 we actually don't need site Styles anymore um so yeah now I have uh you know I can
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add in columns and all that jazz and whenever I you know click on that you'll see the settings change um for those
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particular stacks and you can change them here okay
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um why is foundation 6 why Foundation 6 is beta um oh uh well it's it's a beta
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version of the theme right it's just the foundation 6 beta theme right so um yeah
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don't worry about that uh request built-in QR code
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generator um okay you can request that from Isaiah there's already a QR code
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stack go check out my site QR coder um there you go okay or you know there's a
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there's a bunch of really nice QR code apps on the App Store you can generate QR codes and use the images from that
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okay but if you want to dynamically generate them check out my QR code stack done okay uh which is kind of the great
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okay just a little side tangent there what's great about think an app like Stacks is it doesn't need to have
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everything right like for example like a QR code generator there's an entire ecosystem of stacks that extend the app
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okay and uh with Stacks app we're going to be able to extend it a little bit even more than what we could before okay
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uh which is exciting okay um so yeah okay so now let's talk
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about layouts I think I think that's probably a good time to talk about layouts now um and I'm actually going to
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close this this default project and we're going to open up this one that I have here okay
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okay so um this is just a little test project that I've created okay um and uh
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just has a few a few pages I have a homepage I have a like a products grid page um inside here I have you know a
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few sub Pages you know for each product uh then I have an about us page and a contact page okay nothing special okay
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um but what's what's cool about this is now
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where a workflow where layouts are helpful okay let's look at a project or
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think about a project that we've been using inside with the stacks plug-in um and especially something like Foundation
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okay um with that you would need to add site styles to every page and then you'd have
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to add in when you build out your pages you have to have everything of that page on your actual page okay and
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what I mean mean by that is um you have to have the menu right and you have to have the the navigation or the sidebar
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and the the page banner and and all that stuff right and we could use partials to
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help manage that data better okay however it's it kind of clutters up edit
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mode um and it would be nice since that content was the same on every web page
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like why don't we have a separate place to edit that information right and with
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that we enter layouts okay so um inside layouts
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currently this project only has a part one particular layout okay um here I
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have uh swatches okay and here you'll notice that I have a banner which is the the background of this container right
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and then if we have our overlay right and you can you know and this is just all the normal swatches right so um I've
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used a couple swatches to um enhance this container to give us a little Banner okay and with a header and if you
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notice down here is there's this stack called content and this is a special stack that is only available in
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layouts and wherever you put this stack inside your layout is where Stacks will
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inject the page content okay so yeah so now I get to
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build my layout and you can you can preview your layout as well so here I've previewed my lay I can kind of see how things things are and again here's just
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the little placeholder for where my content for my page would be okay um and
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then if we go to our pages and if I now I can go ahead and preview my homepage
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so here's the homepage right um super exciting if if you notice um we I didn't
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see any of this Banner or the website content or the layout inside edit mode
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right it it just showed up pretty cool right so this is going to
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be a huge productivity boost um because yeah it allows us to um you know create
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these uh layouts that we want for our web pages um outside of our page
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content right so that we can you know focus on just that and if you look our
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Pages the contents of these Pages only has what we need this declutters edit
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mode immensely because it declutters things it makes things faster it makes preview if if you see preview
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is just Lightning Fast right so here is my product grid page that has again it's
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a simple layout right but um it you know it definitely shows how we can have a banner and then all of our products show
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down below okay pretty awesome we can go to the about page oh the about page is
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pretty boring isn't it right contact page there we go okay so to take this further I mean if
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if I were to uh you know modify this um layout let's say uh I want to have a two
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column over here and uh I want to have my content there and let's change the split of this let's make a medium
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instead let's make it like I don't know 33% okay and um now let's say we're going to have our
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let's just do a menu okay and we're going to do a vertical menu uh and we're
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just going to go and let's just say it's a sidebar with a bunch of links okay
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uh we can preview that so there is my kind of my layout there and guess what if I go back to my
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pages voila right so now I've modified my
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layout and my layout is the same across all my pages okay if we go to product a product
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B if you see the layout is the same okay so yeah what's really cool is now I just
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have a single layout here but you can create multiple layouts um and have different layouts for different pages if
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you'd like right um and then you can override that in the page settings okay
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uh which which is going to be cool okay uh as of right now as of this beta um the inheritance of of multiple layouts
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is uh I think it's quasi uh disabled okay there were some issues because
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right now we're focusing on themes um and so yeah some of that inheritance of the theme stuff um has some quirks right
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now okay but uh so yes sticking with a single layout right now um it's working beautiful okay uh really really loving
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that okay so yeah Power of layouts is going to be really awesome um we can
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still preview in the browser okay so we can preview here I can preview in the browser uh oh I'm previewing the layout
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let's go ahead and go to a page right let's uh let's go to this product page is probably the nicest one right uh so
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here we go um yeah pretty nice as you see if I click on it it does it's full a
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fully functional site inside preview uh just like what we're used to okay um
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everything is pretty darn fast
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okay um all right some things
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here okay um couple things what features aren't here
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okay let's load in now if if you've used
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oh oh hey here's something right okay if i d i double clicked on this and marked down um I don't know if you guys know
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but if you notice this but the text is actually readable now like it's not micro I don't need a magnifying glass or
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E even with my eyes right um so yeah the text is nice and big and we can edit it now right um yeah that was something not
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controlled by Stacks before so uh yeah it's nice that we can actually control that now or stack scan so it's made it a
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little bit bigger and a little easier to read okay so that's a definitely a nice warm addition um for us there
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okay then but what I want to talk about is um style text okay um style text um
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from Rapid Weaver okay it was a rapid Weaver feature okay that um the stacks
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plugin basically encapsulated um into a stack right so basically if you remember there was a
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style text Page and then it it essentially took the technology from a style text Page and and injected it into
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a single stack that we can add to the page okay um now I've encouraged people
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not to use style text for many years okay that's why Foundation 6 there is no
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style text anywhere to be seen because the code it generates is absolutely horrific okay um so the styleex engine
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in Stacks is being currently being rebuilt um and it won't be apples and
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apples there there won't be a uh direct feature to feature comparison um it will
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be maybe a scale down okay but it will have all the basics you'll have the ability to color text I believe right uh
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styled bold italic um none of these controls actually work right now okay so if you add the text stack which was
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traditionally a style text box um it does not do anything okay um so yeah uh
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the controls are here it doesn't do nothing okay uh but you can see that yeah it's the text is bigger so that's
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always nice thing right and if you have a latest Apple thing actually just I just noticed this it has you can actually use apple intelligence boom
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straight there um inside the app so there we go okay um that's a nice thing
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thank you Apple so that's something about style text um the next thing is
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links okay so um another aspect that we used a lot okay was linking between
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Pages obviously or you know using a link um anywhere let's let's take for example
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let's just go into like a foundation 6 button stack okay and let's do the link
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button and we'll just add this to the top of the page okay and um if you click on this
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the UI that we were we've been used to was a rapid Weaver UI right it was the rapid we linking ability that you know
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allowed you to set links between um resources and pages on the page okay um
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that's completely new 100% new there are actually some really weird quirks with that link uh that has already been fixed
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um in stacks and I'm super happy about that okay um so how do we link uh basically right now we could just type
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in let's say I want to make this button link to a product right so I would just say product a and voila okay um and you
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just say set link and it links to um the page okay uh and that's pretty cool if
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you notice this is a new uh kind of uh a new UI um it's used in a couple different places oh and also if you
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click on this little bad boy right there you can edit the link attributes okay so
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again if I want to change this we can just do like you know um product uh C
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okay and I can go ahead and link to product C now something that's really nice here uh
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let me go ahead one second let me open up this bad boy here okay um Stacks the
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way it links to things is going to be far superior okay it will always link to
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the full URL or not even the full the full path okay which means it doesn't even need it the URL is agnostic it
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doesn't even matter what the domain of it is right it just it will always link to the fully qualified path of a page
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and um the way rapid Weaver did it had there were some odd things the way it did
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relative paths and you actually couldn't link to anything like this which drove me baddy okay you actually couldn't link
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to something with just the full path you had to put a URL which was again one of the things that drove me nuts so um yeah
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I'm already loving the link um how it happens in the background the functionality of it is a lot cleaner and
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nicer okay um now uh something I didn't I almost forgot is we now have an open
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quickly box which is kind of cool uh so if anyone like me I love uh my hands are
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always on the keyboard right so let's say I want to go to the product page okay voila okay I want to go to um I
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want to go to my layout there we go I want to go to my
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hands are not leaving my keyboard anybody right I want to go to the contact us page boom right so it's an
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easy way right now it's only a way of navigating to um pages and layouts but I've talked
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to him this would be a really great thing of just like maybe a command pallet or you know we can use this for
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so many awesome things that I think the future of this would be is very exciting
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okay um again yeah just go ahead it's uh when you guys get it it's command shift
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o for open quickly okay and then you just type in whatever you want and it just takes you directly
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there pretty cool right I think that's really awesome okay
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um love that
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um oh okay some things I was taking uh good thing I was showing this off to someone uh on the hangout on Friday and
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um it did something that kind of blew their mind and I I took it for granted
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so this is another uh interesting little little um thing I'm going to go ahead and let's add a new page okay and uh
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let's just call this page um I don't know live stream
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oops okay so I've given this I've created a new page I've called it live stream um and let's go into the page
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inspector okay and you can change the page Title Here by the way as well um
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now you I don't know if you noticed this but the folder Name by default remember in Rapid Weaver
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okay folder names are always like page one page two page 55 million whatever
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right um that isn't very helpful having um you know page one page two as the
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default folder name okay so here it actually goes ahead and gets the page title and the folder name actually if
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you look here it's called live stream now I remember look the default file name is index.php because earlier I go I went
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ahead and changed the default extension of every page to be PHP so this new page
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that I created is now what's kind of cool is if you notice these are these are kind of grayed out because those are the default values stack is saying hey I
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automatically named this something but let's say I I didn't want to call this live stream I want to call it hangout or something like that now I've overridden
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that okay which is pretty cool right so yeah the default folder naming structure
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is is a nice touch I think it's uh done a really good job there
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okay okay um I'm sure there are a lot of other
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things that I'm I'm overlooking here okay uh actually for fun let's go ahead
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and I'll I'll be honest the the reason Pro theme is definitely actually should have done that when I did a new project
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here let's go ahead and show you what uh what that it's raw right now okay everybody I mean that is it's like days
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old it's but it's a work in progress so I set my primary theme to be again there's multiple ways we can do it I can
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go ahead go here double click on reason Pro uh let's go ahead and add some content to this
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page um text let's just add some text to the page okay and preview okay so here is
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reason Pro uh if I go into uh my theme settings we can go ahead and say background I want I I kind of like I've
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always liked the wood background in reason so there we go we have that nice gray wood background um and there's my
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content um again uh the themes work in progress so like the banner image doesn't show but you see it it builds
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out the navigation okay so let's say like page three I don't want that let's go ahead and go into page three and I
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can turn that off in the navigation okay and oops well that's something we got to
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work on okay um so there we go actually you know I'll be honest I did actually didn't
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test that so that's something I tested live as we speak and there we go okay um
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so yeah um there's just it just to kind of show you that yeah there's an actual theme um how the settings are uh you
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know all always right here inside um the panel for the theme settings okay it's
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pretty cool um let's let's migrate a little bit just kind of show you or talk about a
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little bit the changes to Foundation okay um and what we have here now um sorry if
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you're not a foundation user um but yeah it's pretty full featured or
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it's pretty feature compatible okay I should say as of right now um with Foundation 6 currently uh with the
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stacks plug-in you had to drag out site Styles everywhere okay now once you set
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Foundation as your theme all your site style settings are uh right here inside
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the theme um settings okay so you can go ahead and set your colors your text you
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know sizes and all the all the stuff you would set inside the sight style stack right here now as we saw in this
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particular layout um you can then add swatches to your layouts you can also add additional swatches that were
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specific to this page you could do all of that right um and if you wanted to if you had multiple layouts and you wanted
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to share um styles across different layouts you could still partial this okay um yeah so you could still partial
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this Swatch and then have that partial across multiple layouts so we're still going to have partials partials are very
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powerful they're not going any anywhere okay um currently um the part there is a
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there will be a partials tab here um it was removed for from this particular version um because yeah it needed a
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little bit of work so currently partials aren't you can't create or um you know
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add partials yet okay but um the engine is still there it's the same partial engine from um Stacks plugin um just
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needs a little bit of tweaking uh to work in the stacks app okay um resources uh yes so there are a
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couple other tabs over here that are currently disabled uh you'll see here this is images and assets okay um and
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these will be the ability um well I believe in the images tab any image that
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you add throughout the project will show up in the images uh um kind of Inspector
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okay or Tree View here and then there's be a general assets um pane here that
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you can then add your own assets set okay so as you see they're they do exist here uh they're just hidden I they're
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disabled right now so I can't show you okay right now we only have access to pages and layouts okay but there is an
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images and assets um tab okay um I actually let's go ahead
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and um I'm going to go ah and Export this site really quick so let's go ahead and Export this and uh I'm just going to
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create a new folder um let's just call it live stream okay and
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just and oh I just hide my icons on my desktop so we have to go find it
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here where is my desktop there it is desktop oh live stream okay um darn okay
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still still there there is there let's just go ahead and uh delete those really quick there's it does there's currently
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a bug um where some things uh some extraneous folders get created sometimes
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um it's mostly when you create a new page um so anyway uh but let's look I
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thought it would be fun to look at the structure of how things are published um as you see here we have um all the pages
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for the each page in this project right so remember let's go over here so we can see all the pages okay um so here we have the about
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page with uh the actual web page and then inside files is the CSS and JavaScript for that page okay uh and
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then we go to contact same thing um the files folder here is for the homepage which is right there okay here we have
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that live streams um page that we created uh the products page with the subfolders for each product okay now
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this is different if you notice in all of these like there's no images like for example this product page I had um I had
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images okay and before um inside products file there would be those
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images that I added okay however okay um all images now are
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sitewide okay so if you go to site assets this is where everything the way Stacks has their sites published is
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beautifully done okay it's very well organized so if we go to site assets images you'll see that here are all of
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the um images especially this one I forget who created this one but tip the hat to
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okay um so all these images are site Assets Now Okay um so what that means is
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if I were to go ahead and let's say copy and paste this somewhere else and um and actually I've done that right if we go
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to product a here is the that okay but Stax knows that hey it's using the same
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exact image so even though these are in a
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picture stack okay the same exact image is used on both both the products main products page and product a they're both
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referencing the same exact image um that gets exported to the site assets images
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folder this is huge okay uh because before a lot of times you wouldn't even know like you know especially if you use
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something like the picture stack and you know a lot of times we would Warehouse images because we wanted to make sure
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that stuff like this was done but now Stax does it for us right super cool
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okay um so yeah that's really cool now inside here we'll notice um we have a
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layouts folder and each layout gets a generic ID okay Associated to it um and
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then inside there there is stacks and and um CSS files now what does that mean
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okay so um when we create our layout okay um this layout has CSS and
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JavaScript associated with it and what's kind of cool is that JavaScript and CSS
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for this particular layout gets encapsulated into these files now why why would that be
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good currently because we are building everything at the page level okay all
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the CSS and all the JavaScript that would be from my layout would get injected in the page specific CSS and
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JavaScript okay but now um because it's all or properly
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organized we can benefit from caching because um each page basically references these centralized CSS and
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JavaScript files for this particular layout um so it's pretty amazing right super awesome then we have stuff um like
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libraries like jQuery and stuff like that stuff in the libraries folder used to be buried under like RW Commons
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plugins Stacks blah blah blah blah blah okay same thing for Stacks um it it
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organization here I won't dive into the organization here but we have basically the libraries which are you know
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libraries that Stacks are using um and then we have specific uh files for
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particular stacks and then we have themes right so I'm not going to dive into the all the structure here but just
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let I'll tell you from my experience it's organized very well it's organized well for performance it's organized well
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for everything for caching it's going to be great okay so there we go um that is
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kind of a glimpse at how um the published website is organized and how everything looks and why it's
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Superior to what we have now okay okay um I've been all I'm gonna I'm
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GNA let's go ahead and look at the chat I've been kind of I know the chat's been streaming super busy so uh I want to
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make sure I don't didn't miss anything before I start jumping into uh the Q&A really quick okay um all right fantastic
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uh very nice layouts mention layouts are not uh layouts is not cool it's fantastic can we also turn the layout
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per page um so um yes okay so if I don't you you're you
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don't have to use layouts okay if you love continuing building um how you're
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currently building a site you don't have to use layouts okay you just build everything on the page and that's it
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okay uh you don't need to use the layout um so yeah if you prefer building
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everything on a per page basis no problem you don't you don't have to use the layouts at all
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okay uh does command Z work yes command Z does work um yeah uh I don't know here
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let's paste a bunch of stuff in here and I'm just going to command
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Z there I just command Z about 15 times and uh
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we don't have any oh look it it undid the I went all the way back to when I
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changed all this stuff look I'm still command Zing it didn't un oh it didn't command Z
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the page add it it command Zed when I changed this live stream page name right
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so um but yeah I I just did 30 or 40 different undos I just kept spamming the
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command Z you can kind of see it up here um now I'm back to all the way when I
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open I'm getting a ding on the Mac OS there's nothing else to command Z so um yeah no I'm not saying that there it's
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perfect and that um there aren't going to be some issues but um yeah I've not I
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have noticed that command z um Works a whole lot nicer okay good question Ryan
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okay um thank you for the folder name default yes uh will RW projects port to
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Stacks okay well uh let's talk about that I know it's part of the questions
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but I think uh that's obviously going to be a common question okay um let's just go and I'm going to open up a a project
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okay um here actually I'll I'll open up this project file right here that I've been working on
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recently um and just because I know it has quite a complex page so uh now this
40:45
might not go well but we'll see um right now there isn't a uh a
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direct import ability okay so there is no um I think uh something along those
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lines is planned for the future where I have a a project file and maybe I'm not
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sure if it'll be like an export from here and then an import here or I don't know all the intricacies of how that
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import will work however let me show you what we can do now okay I'm going go
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ahead and uh I'll create a new page actually let's just go here I already have a new
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page okay um so yeah I'm just going to go over here I'm going to do command a
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command C I'm going to go over here and paste and of course I I knew I I went from like
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zero to a th000 on that one okay let's go to let's go to it
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let's open up a simpler project obviously okay let's go to
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sandbox all right all let's find a I got this one there I'm just do command a in
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here okay and paste oh okay well that
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was interesting that's something new cuz I I command pasted uh we will have to work
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with Isaiah on that one um but right oops I don't let's close that project
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interesting so I command C over
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there interesting this behavior is new um he must have done something uh in the
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in one of the latest Bays it's been a while since I've command pasted but I actually I don't have the project anymore but my entire Foundation
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stacks.com site um I I migrated the entire thing in the stacks app just by
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doing copy paste okay I wonder if it's site styles that kind of broke it oh something in site
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Styles oh here I'm I'm curious now um nothing like doing stuff live right okay
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so I'm wonder if I go into uh let's find a slightly more
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complex page what is this I idea what that is oh no I don't want to I want to do that page that's not going to work
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well uh let's open up that other project I'm curious if I if I
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do think actually this one stack contains everything so let's go ahead and I'm
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going to copy that I don't even know if I have all these Stacks installed inside Stacks app
43:19
I'll be honest okay yeah not sure what the problem was there but oh well but as you saw copy paste
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all all all file some bugs with them on that but um yeah uh eventually we'll be able to copy paste things over um it
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worked much better in earlier betas maybe like even a month ago so something recently has changed um in that respect
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that we'll uh that I'm sure we'll look at but yeah I took so I did do that with the stacks uh as I said Foundation
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stacks.com it took me like 20 30 minutes tops to migrate that entire project over
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um just by copying and pasting okay um and it actually was working quite well
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um so there we go uh that is that is going to be at least the initially the very the simplest method now another
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thing I talked about there were some caveats okay such as um oh that's here let's let's have a look right let's go
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ahead and open this and I'm kind of doing stuff I don't even know how it's going to react so let's see let's see if
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I have style text okay and here let's just go ahead and make that bold I'm am
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actually going to make use the style text engine a little bit so I made that text bold let's copy that and if I paste
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it over here here let's just do let's just go from a blank page so it it
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pasted the content and that's what I thought this what I thought it was going to be right we didn't lose the content
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um and while it it does look kind of styled in here um when we preview the
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page um yeah it's not going to be styled any longer okay so yeah small caveat um with style
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text um again it he does bring over the actual raw text content so we don't lose
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that but any sort of styling that you've done or any linking that you've done in text so let let's say I've added a link
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into here uh the linking will need to be redone okay because the linking within a rap Weaver document is different um
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again that was like a rapid weav feature okay so yeah um there will be some work
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in terms of migration um will will he be able to maybe during
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some in import process make that better I don't know hopefully that would be nice but I don't know okay um so yeah
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importing projects um man that copy paste was working much better a little while ago so oh well sorry about that it
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is a beta though okay um let's see uh but with that said um there should
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be nearly 100% compatibility between any stack that you have installed and uh
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Stacks app right the stacks engine the stacks API is 100% backwards compatible
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um there could be a stack that maybe uses some sort of Rapid Weaver feature
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um I'll give you one example okay um let me just so my portal
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stack okay um right now if you are using my portal stack um it won't won't work
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as expected um in sta app right now and the reason is the way portal works is
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it's highly reliant on how rapid Weaver publishes a website okay it's this it it
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knows the exact structure of how rapid Weaver published everything and obviously because Stacks changes how
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this everything is organized on publish um portal will break there's no no doubt
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okay um and so the the fix for that is for now um partials okay just move from
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portal to partials or maybe the you know the new layouts engine uh is could could
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work great for for you for that as well um will portal ever come back into
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Stacks we'll see um it's not going to be I'll be honest it won't be a high priority for me um but that's that's the
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only stack that I am aware of right now um and it has nothing to do with the stacks API it's purely because the way
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portal worked it relied uh 100% on how um rapid were published things and the
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structure of how files were published highly reliant on that um so that is the
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only stack that I'm aware of from me that um will not work and again it has nothing to do with Stacks or the API
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it's purely just because what portal was doing for us okay all right
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um let's see is 100,000 plus images asset
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subdirectories possible I don't know Danny uh 100,000 images um that's that's
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pretty crazy I don't know if you I want to publish 100,000 images via uh any sort of publishing uh infrastructure
48:11
right um I don't know I don't think anyone's ever tested 100,000 images let
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us know Danny how that works
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out okay uh uh what the best kind of import RW
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site functionality okay I think we talked about import there's a lot of import um import questions can you
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import the published no you cannot import a published site um yeah there is
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no way in to go from a published site into a Stacks project not possible um
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you you'll have to you know build the site inside Stacks okay um for that to
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happen
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okay um I think it was yeah Jeff says I think it was site styles that broke it could
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be it could be it could be me that I've I did something with uh you know having
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Foundation uh I didn't oh I didn't even I totally didn't even talk about that I kind of skipped I think we got
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sidetracked um on why um so in Foundation now uh you don't have to have
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site styles on the page uh because the theme contains all these set oh no I did talk about that I did cuz then we talked
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about swatches and how you can have swatches and layouts and all that jazz okay so cool um all right let's go uh
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let's bring up the questions that uh that we had and um here I'll just plop
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them in here um for those of you that didn't see this is uh Isaiah took the
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time to uh respond to everybody's questions let's go ahead and make them like a side by side here it's uh oh a
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couple things that are nice um I just realized as I was doing this the uh the sidebar here is resizable so um I know
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some people were wondering about you know U maybe limits of text that could be visible and whatnot so um it's kind
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of nice um sometimes you know actually like uh having it slightly wider than what we had before um it kind of gives
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us a little bit more room in some of the uh you know like the the number four settings or or whatnot so I kind of like
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that um so yeah that's nice um it is kind of responsive if we go to like the themes oh that's where I was okay go
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into the stacks oh that this stack doesn't have any settings oh there we go okay um all of these are the same um the
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default stack settings and various things uh hasn't really changed there okay um let's go ahead and just resize
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this a little bit okay right um so a lot of questions about
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importing okay can we copy paste whole sets of stacks layouts from Stacks plugin to Stacks app um as we saw um my
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experience in the in the past was that worked really really well uh there was some sort of glitch right now I'm not
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100% sure what that was um but as but that will be uh the case you should be able to copy paste and or drag and drop
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I I would expect drag and drop actually here I think that used to work as well it's been a while since I've tested that
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if I just kind of drag oh drag and drop doesn't work you have to copy paste okay so um there we go oh uh okay
51:24
really quick I am going to qu this don't save right just to show you
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the the the the process of starting and how fast it is to start working on
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project so I'm going to open up this project I completely quit Stacks okay um and so I'm going to open up this project
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and voila I can already go ahead and oh man
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something something is uh hey uh there's something about some
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of these pages that uh yeah it doesn't like but as as you see it it's dynamically loading all the stacks down
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here at the bottom but when I when I go to a page um yeah I mean your Stacks
52:08
project is pretty much immediately usable okay um yeah I'll I'll look into
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that if I here let's just do that again so it's opened up I'm on the
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homepage if I click to this product page oh well now now it worked obviously okay obviously it does Works a second time um
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so yeah um as you see the it's loading Stacks in the background but what's kind
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of cool is uh when you go to the page it like immediately loads all the resources that it needs to start working on that
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page right but yeah super fast I'm super excited about that um yeah I'm really
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happy with the performance of of stacks all right uh well let's leave that open okay
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uh can we import rapid Weaver projects or export pages from Stacks plugin
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um I don't know okay I talked there is talk I none of that has been built yet
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um there is plans I don't know if it will be an import an export from Stacks Plug-In or an import process um it's
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feasible um I I know technically it could potentially be feasible but I think copy paste I know that will uh be
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something that is available on day one and it should work better than uh yeah
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uh in the future Future Okay would we describe a conservative approach following RW okay uh there theme
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compatibility uh we'll talk about themes in a little bit I think there's another dedicated FAQ about that but RAV themes
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will not work inside Stacks however the way uh Isaiah has built the uh theme API
53:46
um it shouldn't take a lot of work to get a rap Weaver theme um into Stacks
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okay um i' I've said this publicly before I acquired the entire Nick katees back catalog and um yeah I don't know if
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I'm going to bring all of them over okay but uh reason will definitely be the first one uh where we're going to bring
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uh some of those uh Legacy niit Kates themes I'll modernize them a little bit definitely make them Foundation 6
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compatible so that you can use Foundation 6 Stacks with them and all that stuff um and yeah that'll be really
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exciting so um if a developer has a rap weav theme and it shouldn't take
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too much work to get them uh working inside uh Stacks uh the new Stacks theme
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API um okay how do we migrate content okay we've talked about I think all of
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that do we have to rebuild site structure um so in terms of site structure you don't need to rebuild the
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site structure unless you want to build start utilizing these new layouts then at that point uh you might want to try
54:53
to you know refactor but I would think at first first what you what I would do if I had a large website I'd migrate
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everything over to um you know on a p you know here just by basically copying
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and pasting then I will build a layout and then go back through each page and
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have that page use the layout you know what I mean so um yeah I think it will
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be at one Fell Swoop you could just kind of migrate everything over um but if you want to leverage layouts it's going to
55:24
be a little bit of work on you to make sure that you know you use this new feature okay but again you're not required to use the new layouts feature
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um you can continue to build everything on a per page basis just like you are
55:38
today okay compatibility of all third party Stacks I think we talked about that um yeah the the the API itself is
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100% backwards compatible um but there are some Stacks that might be leveraging something that is from the old rap
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Reaver days okay and I talked about portal um what's the pricing okay will it be a
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subscription the answer is no okay uh no subscriptions okay so um Isaiah he has a
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lengthy answer here where there might eventually be an option uh if you wanted
56:13
to do a subscription but there will always be a one-time buy option okay so
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um yeah I have to admit that was actually kind of news to me I know he's uh we've talked about subscriptions a
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lot um so yeah the short answer no subscriptions
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okay uh what operating system okay so operating system uh currently as of
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today it's Mac OS 11 okay which uh I think was four operating systems
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ago we are on what are we on now we're on 15 okay so yeah four operating systems ago um I don't remember what
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California was that Catalina I don't I don't remember okay but Mac OS 11
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um but he's going to try to go back to um I think 10.5 if he can I think um I know an
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earlier build of stacks uh worked on 10.15 because I had an Intel laptop uh which I'm now
57:12
jailbreaking and I run I'm running sequ on it but I know earlier builds of um
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the stacks app ran on 10.15 however um I also know the latest
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version of xcode um really pushes developers forward so it was it made it
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harder and harder to uh compile for those older uh os's so um as of right
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now Mac OS 11 okay which is some Intel Max but all M series Max
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okay uh PHP can we preview PHP files uh as you saw yes you can okay has a mini
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PHP preview server baked in PHP 8.3 I believe here let's have a
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look um server uh oh do I not have oh no here it
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is server info let's just look at that really quick it
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is oh down here 8.3 so PHP 8.3 okay cool which is nice cuz that's
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the latest version I think it's 831 I think is the current release actually no 8.4 just got shipped uh last month or
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maybe a month and a half ago so all right um wa
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FTP um so as of right now as you saw there was an export um and that exports
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locally um here he said no comment about whether or not FTP uh is coming or what will be
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the the case there however um I'll give you some Insider information and he
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actually leaks it a little bit further down here wherever it was okay um before
58:56
poop hit the fan um and all the drama happened um Isaiah was actually working on um a complimentary app to um the
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stacks plugin and whatnot and I know he built some FTP and SFTP actually I think
59:10
it was just SFTP um and so I know he has that entire
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bit of code working um I may or may not have uh seeing uh how fast it is which
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is which is nice okay so I know he has an an TP engine built um uh so yeah I I
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I imagine that is uh going to be leveraged inside Stacks okay um so that
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we can have um SFTP uh baked directly into Stacks okay just as what we're used to
59:43
now okay um so he has he says no comment here but further down if you read into it he actually says that he was building
59:49
an FTP app somewhere in here I think it was somewhere so trust me it's in there
59:57
somewhere so giving a little bit of Insider information that's not Insider information cuz he actually said it
1:00:04
later on so sorry Isaiah if you're watching this right extensible or self-contained
1:00:11
when the next beta drops will we be able to develop full sites with the base platform or will we rely on third-party
1:00:17
developers okay so um yeah Isaiah's answer is perfect here um the stacks app
1:00:24
will be very similar to what the stack plug is okay um you can build something simple out of the box there's a bunch of
1:00:30
free Stacks um I recommend my starter pack it's free it has a lot of powerful
1:00:36
Tools in it uh that you can use to build a pretty decent layouts for a a website
1:00:43
all for free however um the power of the stacks ecosystem is that we have
1:00:48
thirdparty developers with over 700 Stacks available out there um that yeah
1:00:55
can do almost anything okay so um yeah yes
1:01:01
you can you'll be able to build sites with just the base platform uh but it's great that we have an ecosystem of
1:01:08
developers that allows us to do things that we couldn't do without it
1:01:14
okay um is this a clean slate no okay Isaiah has a big fat long lengthy reply
1:01:21
here uh in short no okay um it is uh again again keeping backwards
1:01:27
compatibility uh with existing Stacks uh is is a huge benefit okay you're not
1:01:32
going to lose any of your um Investments that you've made probably hundreds of
1:01:37
dollars in Stacks um you'll still be able to use them in Stacks app okay um
1:01:43
projects you'll be if you know you have an existing project inside rapid Weaver um you know you'll be able to copy those
1:01:51
over now if you're using a rap Beaver theme that does rely if you want to use that same exact theme that hopefully
1:01:57
that developer is still around there aren't many people around still making rap weav themes okay um so yeah
1:02:03
hopefully if that developer still around they'll be able to you know Port that theme into Stacks
1:02:10
okay um and yeah copy paste or maybe in the future we'll have some sort of
1:02:15
import ability that can save you a little bit of time okay um but all in all you are you do not need to start
1:02:22
from scratch okay I think that's the best case scenario for everybody involved um especially if you're you
1:02:29
know a casual user that you know wants to use the new stuff um but yeah you
1:02:35
don't want to start from scratch and that's not the case with uh other new apps that are being developed right now
1:02:41
that is a 1000% starting completely from scratch uh which isn't cool okay um so
1:02:49
yeah uh I think huge leg up for anyone that uh you know moves to stack app uh
1:02:54
you don't need to uh start from scratch okay uh concerning
1:03:00
Foundry so it's unfortunate uh that Adam has decided to close up shop especially
1:03:06
the way that he did but we're not going to talk about
1:03:12
that okay um will Foundry work in stack
1:03:20
app the short answer yes okay um you
1:03:25
might be wondering but The Foundry Foundry what about the rever theme Adam isn't going to ship a new Foundry theme
1:03:31
for Stacks he's made it blatantly clear that he does not want to um ship any
1:03:38
updates or make help anybody do anything really okay but we're lucky um The
1:03:45
Foundry theme was uh pretty much the dumbest theme out there um and yeah it
1:03:53
it contained virtually nothing it contained no logic it didn't even contain the the the bootstrap libraries
1:04:00
okay um everything was handled by the I think it was The Foundry stack whatever his version of site Styles was I think
1:04:06
it was just the foundry stack okay and because that uses Stacks API the stacks
1:04:13
API is 100% comp backwards compatible uh Foundry will work in Stacks app um I I
1:04:19
did some tests uh a while ago I was able to get things working okay uh it all
1:04:25
worked just with the uh the base theme that comes with stack
1:04:32
app okay um so yeah if you're a Foundry user uh go ahead continue using you know
1:04:38
migrate to Stacks set your theme to be the base theme I think there is there is one feature um that required like a
1:04:46
single div be be exist um inside the the theme all you have to do is you know you
1:04:52
can probably have a little FAQ on create this one div and that one little it was like an
1:04:58
animation feature I forget what it was it was one of the it was an edge case feature of Foundry um but yeah there was
1:05:03
one div that needed to be created and you could just manually create that with a a container stack give it a class and
1:05:10
you're done okay U then you have 100% uh functionality of your Foundry site um
1:05:16
super easy to do so um Isaiah I didn't Isaiah didn't know that so he talks about this you know uh a bunch of other
1:05:23
stuff now longterm um I do recommend you moving to something that is supported
1:05:30
and actively developed because over time your Foundry um you know bugs will come
1:05:36
up maybe things will start feeling a little bit old and cranky um you know you're not going to be able to uh you
1:05:42
probably still use the the new layouts API you could probably actually use that some of that with Foundry maybe you can add The Foundry Stacks into the layout I
1:05:49
don't know um I I don't see why you shouldn't be able to okay uh probably help you a lot actually make things a
1:05:55
little bit faster but I do recommend finding some New Alternatives okay um
1:06:01
going forward I have a lot of resources I won't go into the entire pitch here there's a lot of resources on the Weaver
1:06:07
space Community um I even have a upgrade discount if you want to move to
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Foundation um yeah there's an entire Foundry chat on
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Weaver space Community dedicated to that so if you're a Foundry user and you're still looking for a new home and places
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to get help pick out Weaver space we're there for you okay all right some odds and ends here
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um someone asked about SEO helper um yes LC helper will still work um I think
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eventually uh staxx will uh it doesn't have any metat tag stuff in here yet
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okay um so yeah if you want if you're serious about SEO and you want to use
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Stacks from day one um SEO helper is going to be your jam okay um yeah if you
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want to edit all the meta tags you want SEO helper will 100% still work in Stacks app so um there we go and a
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benefit of using if you're using SEO helper a benefit there is that uh when you migrate your project over all of
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that data comes over for free because it's all using Stacks okay so yeah SE
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helper is going to be a great uh a great way for you to migrate uh that if you're
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using the metatags editor inside rapid Weaver um um you might have to redo some of that okay uh I'm not sure that data
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is accessible via any sort of import process I don't know okay um but if
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you're using SEO helper yes worse comes worse copy paste it over and you're done
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okay font be bigger we talked about how the font it's super nice that the font's bigger now okay really
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nice uh will it be possible to integrate or build a database through the app
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um uh Isaiah wishes he could say Yes um
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so there are there are thirdparty products out there that allow you to do
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um things such as total CMS and feeds allow you to integrate with databases or build a database um it is not within the
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stacks app it's something that is done outside of that um but yeah maybe we'll
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see something someday um but as of day one Stax doesn't have anything like that
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built in but with its API we have third- party solutions for it okay such as the
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new Total CS 3 coming out soon um it's currently in beta as well uh it's pretty
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awesome if I say so myself okay uh so someone asked can we open
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pages side by side um and Isaiah I liked his response no but it's a good idea I
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like your thinking I agree I think being able to see two pages at once could be kind of a cool idea um not currently
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possible though okay um what are features comparison r i uh
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we've talked all day about uh you know uh I give you a tour and some of the features hopefully you guys have seen
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what features are different okay how do we manage app
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complexity uh using agent with two languages uh it's the same thing okay uh
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so yeah that workflow with at least for your I I don't remember who asked that question with agent managing that sort
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of level of complexity hopefully layouts actually will make that a little bit easier because you can kind of centralize a lot of that stuff um but
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yeah um Stacks right now doesn't support a new workflow for those means of
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multilanguage websites so um a solution such as agent like you're using already
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um is probably the best uh the best way okay um search and replace globally it's
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on the to-do list um will Stacks Pro have an improved inspector making it
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easier to enter over 28 characters a length but not truncate it oh I think
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you're talking about I think that person's talking about this so yeah uh I mean you can expand this this to make it
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a little bit bigger um if you uh if you like you can talk to the developer of a
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particular stack and there are different input types that allow you to add more
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for example um if I go ahead and add uh maybe maybe pen doesn't have it no pen doesn't have it uh I think my group
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stack does yeah like there there are different types of input that has more lines okay there's three we have one
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line I think there's like a four line and then a 10 line right so you can have different size input boxes so um if you
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want more space there um talk to the dev of that stack and ask hey can this setting be made into you know a a box
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that has more lines uh I I would be open to that idea let me know
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okay uh how will live preview work as you've seen it all day right it's just
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just like we have already and you can also preview in the browser
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okay uh will there remain an opportunity to use Stacks as it is today if yes how
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long will it be available in the future um yeah Isaiah will continue to
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support the the stacks plugin as long as you can um I'd personally recommend move
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to Stacks app okay okay um it's where the future will be um so yeah rap Weaver
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isn't going to continuing supporting uh they're going to kill it off as soon as
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possible uh that's my opinion I have no facts to back that up um but I believe
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rap Weaver it's it's on as soon as real Mac can they will ditch it okay um
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that's just my opinion okay uh a few more questions
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let's see uh will the stack and themes be purchased current projects be usable so we've talked about similar question
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yeah so third party Stacks themes um you know we've talked about those uh all third party Stacks should work over
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themes the developer will have to um you know do a little bit of work to get that to work in Stacks app and uh probably
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won't be a free update okay uh how much is it uh we'll know
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more about that when it's released I don't even have that information so I can't even try to leak you that information no
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clue all right uh will we have a working app by June 30th well as you see what we
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have now uh uh with developers we can't promise any sort of dates will this be officially
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shipped I don't know uh by June 30th uh but uh we're shooting as you what you
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see here hopefully should be released to the to uh the people at the summit I
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don't know if it'll be a general public release or you know uh curtail to just people the Summit last year the people
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at the summit got the first betas uh will that be true this year I I don't know it it's up to Isaiah um if he wants
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to give it out to the world I think within a couple weeks he gave it to the to the rest of the the the world the the
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current beta that is very limited but as you see this beta um is pretty decent
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there's a lot we can do with it um and so yeah I'm not sure um who the target audience is uh will be for uh the
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whenever it is released will it be people that attend uh the summit um or will it be the general public soon I'm
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I'm assuming not too far after probably be the general public but um people at the summit might have first dibs I don't
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know okay um I am totally open uh but by the summit our goal is to um the entire
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Summit is to use Stacks app okay uh you will not see any sort of other uh web
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design tool being used um by the presenters our goal is so that uh the presenters will use
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Stacks app so um yeah excited about that okay uh if just a small plug for the
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summit um it is coming up in just over a month okay April 11th to the 13th 3 days
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100% online um check it out summit. weaver. space and um or stack summit.com
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um that will redirect you there and uh there we go okay uh there was another
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one what macros will uh Stax Pro offer I think uh Isaiah misunderstood that
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question um I'm not aware of any new macros
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yet okay um however with that said I know a probably a powerful macro that I
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know a lot of people used was base URL okay um and that was because of a limitation in Rapid Weaver where you
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couldn't link anything with a starting with a slash right so um but as we saw
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earlier Stax doesn't have that problem and I'm going to recommend that's actually what we use we actually don't need to supply a domain name um for
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warehoused you warehoused images or anything like that so um I'm going to recommend don't even put in the domain
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that way it doesn't matter if you publish to a Sandbox domain uh you don't need to worry about swapping out the
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domain name because it's just going to be referenced to the path so there we go okay um but yeah if you have any other
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questions along that lines maybe we can have an open discussion on the hangout this Friday I welcome anyone who wants
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to join in and ask some more interactive questions and give feedback on Friday at the hangout um I will go back to the
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chat in a second and look to see if there's any other open questions that I can answer um so uh if you have any
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questions please go ahead and put that in the chat right now and I'll make sure I answer that um but we are about to wrap up here okay um okay let's go uh
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let's look through the chat let's see if I missed anything okay
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um uh warning about the portal stack yep okay um
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uh what about total CS sites total CS will continue to work just like any other stack I wouldn't um I I'll be I
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haven't tested a fully a full total CMS site in Stacks app yet um but I I do expect it to work um but yeah uh that's
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something we'll we'll definitely make make sure we test and make sure that um everything works okay there's going to
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be a lot of I mean obviously I have I have a ton of stacks um so I want to make sure that everything is seamless as
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possible for everybody okay um my goal is to make sure that um you know
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everything works um regardless okay so and I I will not make you pay for any
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sort of uh you know new version of total CMS to um to migrate it into Stacks okay
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the current version of all the stacks that you have right now um should be Serv ible in Stacks app minus portal
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I've talked quite a bit about that one earlier so okay a portal will require complete rewrite I don't expect that for
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any of my other Stacks if there are any sort of little quirks here and there I will ship free updates to make sure that
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they work inside Stacks app okay um you shouldn't have to uh buy anything new um
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to get your existing websites working
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okay uh transmit should be fine yeah you know a lot of I know a lot of people love using transmit uh funny just a
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quick little T tangent on transmit um I've noticed at least once I
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upgraded to Sequoia like it's the first time I ever started having little quirks with transmit um so yeah I'm kind of sad
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about that so um yeah I posted some alternatives on the community uh if if
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anyone's interested uh but transmit yeah for years it was my go-to but my loyalties have been waning a
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little bit with its crashes and some of its quirks that it's it's had recently so anyway hope hopefully Panic does it
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and they uh they they come out with either a new version or something okay excited about that hey
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um okay can you make the document you're scrolling through available for download
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uh uh Well I this document here uh I'm or are you talking about this question
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I'm not sure Matias which one you're talking about the stacks project um that's not going to do anything for you because you don't have the latest beta
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so it's not going to open up in in your um in your version so um I'm happy to make this project available once the
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beta is available I'll proa I'll probably have even a nicer uh demo file to show you okay uh by then so um but
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I'm happy to share uh you know me uh I don't I like sharing everything that I have okay so anything to make you guys
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more successful okay um does the new stack have a badge
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feature like built with I assume you're joking win no there
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there there is no badge feature um in inside stack app oh I see you're
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laughing next yeah there there is no Ransom where to remove it either hey I'm not I'm not
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I'm not going to go down that path I'm I'm going to stay nice okay you almost you almost hooked you almost hooked me
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there irn almost got me to go down the rabbit hole okay um in uh inspector text
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fields are currently too small both text fields and the text area for example SEO
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metat tags uh page descriptions URLs uh type Siz is truncated okay uh yeah like
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I said uh yeah let me know um I'm happy to uh you know as you see the the inspectors are resizable uh and if you
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need something bigger we can do that uh we talk about to Isaiah about maybe making the font size here bigger um yeah
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I mean I I guess the font size there could be a little bigger we could talk about him about that maybe that could be his app setting or something like that
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not sure is there a time with Stacks app will be rolled out um I I think I
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answered that so uh our goal is to have it rolled out by the summit uh at least a beta okay um and again I don't know
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who the audience to that will be will it be uh people who just attend the summit or will it be available widely I don't
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know but um I'll tell you if you want to guaranteed to get one get yourself a stack Summit ticket okay right so there
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we go um awesome 3 days Awesome 3day event uh yeah I recommend it hopefully
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everyone in the chat who attended the summit and thought they got everything that they wanted out of it let them know
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um I'd appreciate that uh we you know this year uh we're already full of speakers actually I might I might have
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enough to do six speakers a day this year super excited about that so hopefully we'll we'll get to that okay
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so much to talk about this year okay um
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80 minutes is a tag long for me well so you know uh feel free to to leave uh we are we are wrapping up now um but I
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wanted to make sure I answered give you guys a full tour answered all of your questions um and looks like I have so
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um thank you very much everybody um I hope you enjoyed this uh tour of stacks
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you can kind of see how uh its current state and things are I was hoping for zero crashes but yeah I crashed it funny
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enough you know I I I never got any crashes until obviously you do something on the live stream like oh I've never
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tried this before let's try it and um so there we go um anyway uh thank
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you very much hope yeah you got some value out of this um if you have any more questions please either post it on the community come join us on Friday at
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the Hangouts and uh we'll see you then take care everyone have a wonderful rest
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of your week go out there and make your website