FormLoom - first impressions screencast

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At last there is a great plugin addition from YabDab aptly named FormLoom.

In a nutshell this RapidWeaver plugin creates a great looking contact form with reCaptcha in a snap. This short screencast covers setting up a form.
Please note that this is the first beta release and I am looking forward to improvements and the eventual full release . There is already quite a hot thread on this plugin over at the Realmac forums.

Oh, and YabDab are discounting the beta sign-up by $2 so grab the plugin at a good price more details over at the Forum Announcement thread .

Just a reminder we are running our promo on supportcasts 12 months membership and BlueBall Designs Theme bundle in our Blog Thread too , catch it while you can.

New Cast on Text Shadows Available

Have you ever wanted create nice looking drop shadow effects on you text? You can, with some caveats....

A new SupportCast is now available to Members covering the text-shadow: selector for CSS.

Not all browsers support this but CSS 3.0 has it with the ability to be inherited. Fortunately it degrades gracefully so you text will look just fine in the browsers that don't support it, yet.

We also show the use of @Stash from http://www.nilrogsplace.se for keeping code handy for your site project within that project.

This one is Members Only.

08 Holiday Promo - beat those economic doldrums

Lets get into the Holiday Spirit and beat those economic blues.

Supportcasts have teamed up with BlueBall Design on a fantastic double whammy promotion from now till Dec 25th 2008.

First of all for this holiday period SupportCasts have lowered our 12 month subscription by $15 already a saving of 19%

But we did say this was a double whammy deal with BlueBall design and we are exclusively offering a superb BlueBall Design Theme bundle.

The Blueball Theme Bundle Vol. 1 bundle includes the following great looking themes:
• Blueball Pro Colors
• Blueball Classic Colors
• Blueball Kamino Classic
• Blueball Comments
• Blueball Showcase
• Blueball Designer Colors
The list price for all of these combined costs a total $66.00.

We have arranged for a 30% special discount price of just $46.00, a savings of $20. This Theme bundle is only available exclusively through SupportCasts.com till Dec 25th 2008

But the holiday madness does not stop there. In addition to the above special deal we also offer to all purchasers of the BlueBall Theme Bundle an additional $15 coupon off a SupportCasts.com 12 month membership. 

Combined with our promo price you can snap up a 12 month membership for the price of 6 months ($49.95), a fantastic saving of 38% on our regular price $79.95.

Existing supportcasts members can pick up this Theme bundle at the Discount price too

* Offer is valid from 23rd Nov 2008 - Dec 25th 2008 existing supportcasts members can purchase the Theme bundle without use of the BlueBall $15 coupon code. Promo and coupon codes mentioned above apply only to the 08 Holiday promo product only. All rights reserved SupportCasts.com

Promo coming soon

Feeling the credit crunch during this spell of economic crisis , we are going to launch a promo in a few days that will keep your piggy-bank happy too :)

Common questions on RapidWeaver Themes - screencasts

One of the reasons Supportcasts.com came into existence was to help Mac users quickly and more easily understand how to work on their Macs. After spending almost spending almost 3 years answering questions on the Rapidweaver Forum and getting to know some of the Theme Developers we decided to ask one of them; "what are the most commonly asked questions you receive?"

Charlie Lockhart over at Blueball Design was the first to receive our question. We got a great set of questions back. Oh yeah, Charlie would know. He has been building themes for Rapideweaver for almost 4 years!

We have created a 2 part cast covering these questions and giving answers for Rapidweaver users. These are not only for Blueball Design themes, but for many other themes created for Rapidweaver.

If you are new to Rapidweaver or even if you've been using it for a while, we hope you will find something that will help you here. And maybe Charlies inbox will be a bit smaller tomorrow....

Did we mention the Coupon Code? We have a great offer of $3 off of the new Blueball Design theme for Rapidweaver; RW Pro Tabs 4.0. Simply watch any or all of the movies and you will find the code at the end to use to get this quality theme at a discount. Hurry, this offer ends on December 25, 2008.

Movie One:
All the questions except the ones on Blocks and Themes (see the second movie for Blocks information)

Movie Two:
Blocks and common errors with Themes

Feedback button

We have now implemented a new feedback/suggestion box solution for all our vistors.
You can use it by clicking on the small Orange tab to the left of the page

We also have other categories available at the main feedback page

iWeb and BannerZest - Flash Banner How To

It has been a while since we have offered a free show over at SupportCasts.com so here we go for today , yay.
This time we have taken a different direction and offered a show covering for what is generally the first website creation application you get when you buy/switch to a Mac and that is iWeb.

Whilst most people can use iWeb for their general needs , we have covered integrating a Flash Banner into iWeb for fun and to show that it is possible to just push iWeb a bit further :)

Basic requirements are iWeb 08 from Apple iLife Suite and Bannerzest from Aquafadas.
Enjoy and watch out for more shows on additional Mac applications

New Cast - Creating an Vignette Effect - Pixelmator

A new Cast on Pixelmator, our first cast on this application, is now up. This Cast show you how to create a nice vignette affect in just a few simple steps. 

This is what the finished image looks like.